OK...here is the much awaited (?) eye story!!
I always had HORRIBLE vision in both my eyes -- my right eye was 20/400 and my left was 20/300 (legally blind w/o correction) and I could not really see anything, even up close, but blobs w/o contacts or glasses. After my surgery and SO much trouble, the opthomologist & I decided to just use Refresh PM all the time in my RIGHT eye. Like we have said before, since it really is a night-time lubricant, it distorted my vision totally. It really didn't matter if I wore my glasses or 1 contact so since I saw better out of my contacts, I just wore the left one. When I finally had the weight put in (SEVEN YEARS after my surgery!), I immediately saw a change in my vision, even though the weight was just topical. I was so excited to go back to the Dr. and was willing to wear glasses again if it would make my vision better. In my mind, there was NO question that I would need something since I had had to wear correction since 6th grade. When I did go back, he wanted to wait -- and as an aside, that was when I had the WORST attitude during this whole ordeal (I think I have maintained a good attitude about the whole AN thing until then!). As the weeks went by & I would go back for tests, I could tell that it was better, but not for sustained periods of tiime and not so we could get a good test. I would see clearly for a fraction of a second and then it would blur again -- & my attitude was getting worse & worse! One day, the Dr. said. "But the best reading we're getting is 20/30.." to which I replied, "...but I can't see! <voiced raised>" and then it hit me like a ton of bricks-- I was seeing 20/30 (in a good second) WITHOUT CORRECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Dr. wasn't really aware of what my vsion had been before b/c I had moved away and then back here and couldn't go to the Doc I had seen all of my life since he was an optometrist instead of an opthomolgist (SP?) -- needless to say, he was a bit surprised and started thumbing thru my chart. I couldn't see how an eyelid surgery could improve my vision THAT drastically and he agreed with me that the only answer was that it truly was a miracle (who says they don't happen anymore?) -- there is ABSOLUTELY no medical reason/response for this. My SIL said maybe when they were in there so long for the AN surgery that they unknowingly "wiggled" my optic nerve!!! Whatever the cause, I am enjoying VERY brief seconds of clear vision out of that eye!!! The Dr. said that the clear/unclearness is probably caused by the fact that my lid sometimes distributes the tears better than others depending on how my lids functions/shuts.
OK...so that is my happy, little story. Kind of neat, huh?
K