Divine Vision

Driving into the Optometrist office on Day 5 after the eyeball extraction, I experienced a new sensation. It was early in the morning so still dark enough to have headlights and lamp posts. Around each ball of light was a large glow that was twice the size of the source of light. I told my coworkers that I have divine vision because I can see halos. One of them commented that only I could put such a positive verbal spin on such a misfortune. At the optometrist’s office he attempted to remove the medical contact in my right eye. He had me set my chin and forehead in position. Peering through his equipment he used a q-tip the came at my eyeball. Unconsciously as the q-tip came forward my head moved backwards to avoid being poked in the eye. He told me that my head was moving back as he was coming forward. At that time I noticed that my head was 4 inches from the starting position and did not even realize it. Fortifying my position I managed to hold still the next time. It is interesting because they surgeon’s office keeps asking me if I have dry eyes. How am I to know if they are dry? They are the only eyes I have ever had and do not know if they wet compared to anyone else’s eyeball.

I could see incremental improvement in my vision each day for the first week. It was much easier to tell in my right eye since I was practically blind at day 2 and my left eye started somewhere around 20/60 on that day 2. By Day 7 my vision was 20/20 in my left eye and 20/15 in the right. It is strange that the one that required the contact actually did better. Now I am extremely sensitive to sunlight and see halos at night.

For the first two weeks I was still looking for my glasses to put on before I did things like look at a computer monitor. As I passed into the third week I stopped looking for glasses but then for a few days I was trying to take off my glasses after I stopped looking at the computer monitor.