UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

OK, got my new right (graft eye) acrylic lens implant done last tuesday. some pain, actually more than was present after the DALK. But, it went away pretty fast. Poor vision at first, due to swelling of Cornea and some bubbles in the lens chamber, etc.......but today is Friday, and I am seeing rather well. So well, in fact that I am a bit giddy about it. True, my visiion is not PERFECT, but in the graft eye, no contact lens fitted yet, i can see NEARLY as well as I see with my left eye which has a contact on it, pre-graft. Monday they want to fit me a contact on the graft.......and thursday dive into my left eye with the PK and lens implant. Off and running.

Piper

Hey Piper, that's really good news! So pleased it has fone well for you.

And how many moons can you see?

Pat......in all honesty and without a hint of exageration I see two main images and seven rather faint ones......I am pretty confident that these will be reduced and focused with the proper contact lens.

This is WAY DOWN from the 77 plus still visible in my left , ungrafted eye.

Andrew, when we go to heaven will be have good eyes again?

Piper

Pioper

This is really good news! Well done.

Now we see as through a glass, darkly; but then we shall see face-to-face!

Andrew

Wow! That is what I am feeling today. Wow. You "old-timers" know the feeling, I'm sure. My right DALK was good, healed well, etc.......but the cataract in my lens was really fouling my vision.

Now, with the new acrylic lens I CAN SEE!!! I want to climb to the roof top and shout it for everyone to hear.

In truth, things are still a bit fuzzy......need a contact with some correction I'm sure.....so I'm not seeing perfectly, BUT better than I ever thought possible.

Someone asked me what is like to be able to see with my right eye again. This is the only answer I can give that willl make sense to people who have not had the trials with their vision that we on this forum have had:

Imagine that you walked out to your yard and flapped your arms and found that you could fly, not perfectly, but pretty well.....just flapping your arms and flying about. Imagine how amazed you would be. That's what I feel, looking out through my right eye and actually seeing ONE of everything. I'm giddy. I can't stop covering my left eye just so I can LOOK AT THINGS with my right.

Off to the clinic tomorrow to have my lens incision inspected, clip the stitch on the lens, have a contact fitted.....and I'm driving my self there. (at least till Thursday, the day for my Triple and PK in the left eye.

Strawberry Festival in Ponchatoula today.....think I'll wander into town and LOOK at things!! (and eat some strawberries...)

Cheers, Piper

Spent part of the morning with my Opthams and the optometrist.....the lens incision is almost healed. My UNCORRECTED vision in the right, graft, eye is now 20-30.....no complaints there. I still have some strange smearing on the right sides of bright things....and they tell me that is the diffraction of the graft scar causing that. OK, I can live with that. I remember being nearly blind, this isn't too bad.

Change of game-plan. Now going to have a DALK and new lens in the left eye in two days, not the PK they told me about two weeks ago.....the DALK was so successful they don't want to expose me to more rejection possibilites than necessary. I concur.

Off and running. Piper

Wonderful news (as we tend to expect from you, Piper!) - congratulations!

I love the flying analogy. I'll have to use that one myself!

Best of luck for the DALK. I'm sure that with your track record it will go swimmingly for you.

John, my big job on thursday is to show up on time, hungry......the surgeons and God have the tough jobs......

Piper

Piper

You will be in our thoughts on Thursday, as indeed will the surgical team!

My own PK and subsequent implant now serves me so well, that I am becoming an advocate for the combination! I hope your next "double" is as good as your first.

All the best

Andrew

Hi Piper
Glad to hear that it's more good news.

Interesting that you have that strange smearing - I had what I think must be a similar experience when I had my cataract done - it took about 3-4 weeks to go away, but go away it did. Obviously mine was nothing to do with a graft scar (as I haven't had a graft) but was told it was due to the IOL bedding in. It doesn't always happen but is present in about 40% of cataract cases. The brain gets used to it and it goes away. Let's hope that it goes away for you too.

Good luck for Thursday - be thinking of you.