Interestingly the vision has deteriorated from really pretty good to next to useless but medically the cornea is bonding well and looks really good.
As for the vision, I had an eye test in April picked up the glasses a couple of weeks later and the vision had changed in the meantime... sigh. Saw the consultant later the same week anyway (as a followup to the rejection attempt) who advised me to get another full eye test done and come back to him around the middle of June with the warning that glasses may no longer be an option and we will look at that at the time.
So this week I have seen my optician again (need to book weeks in advance), went round and round in circles with the "this one or this one" game, this lead to a corneal map being taken which shows that at the moment I have the pleasure of asymetrical astigmatism and that it is possible that some of the remaining stitches may not be helping matters.
Since I am still under the care of the consultant the optician admitted that he cannot say that I will be definitely moving to contact lenses but that I have to go back to the consultant with the findings that a glasses prescription is not currently a possibility due to asymetrical astigmatism. Then he admitted that what in his opinion is probably going to happen, is that the consultant will decide I need contact lenses and refer me back via the NHS voucher scheme which as he put it will cost me a lot less than spectacles currently do.
Finally he chipped in with the comment that fitting contacts at the moment is going to be very difficult and even harder for me to use due to lazy eye/squint issues. Interestingly I am having squint surgery on the 10th June - so the timing could not be better.
So at the moment I have the following appointments booked:
10th June : squint surgery - with adjustable stitches - so fear my Action Man eagle eyes
16th June : orthoptist/consultant followup to squint surgery
19th June : corneal consultant followup for rejection episode
24th June : opticians for a contact lens appointment - to be cancelled if need be depending on the above
So it is all go for me at the moment.
T-ra!
