Just when I thought it was all over, it wasn’t.<\/p>\n
Starting in about November, my left eye began “regressing” a little, to 20\/25, and now 20\/30. My right eye continues to be 20\/20, so the difference between the two began to give me headaches. I visited the eye doctor today, and we discussed my options.<\/p>\n
I left his office wearing a contact lens.<\/p>\n
The long-term plan is to wait until about a year after my surgery (2 and a half months from now) and see where my left eye ends up. Then, I could get a second surgery. And, it may happen that by then, microkeratomes will have gotten small enough that I could get LASIK this time around instead of PRK. The surgery would, of course, be free because of the TLC Lifetime Commitment<\/a>.<\/p>\n But for now, I’m giving extended-wear contacts a try. I could never go back to the daily grind of regular contacts after the freedom of wearing nothing at all. I also would probably not wear extended-wear contacts on a long-term basis because I’m afraid they’d be unhealthy for my eyes. A short-term stint, on the other hand, may be fine. I feel so much better already with my two eyes matched again.<\/p>\n I’ll keep updating this site as things develop. I’d like to say, though, that in no way do I regret getting the surgery! Even with this hassle, I’m happier than I was before, and am still very optimistic that everything will work out in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just when I thought it was all over, it wasn’t. Starting in about November, my left eye began “regressing” a little, to 20\/25, and now 20\/30. My right eye continues to be 20\/20, so the difference between the two began to give me headaches. I visited the eye doctor today, and we discussed my options. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}