UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi everyone,

Just thought I'd keep you all up to date with Jareks's progress(post op 3 weeks)

Well, were to I start its been a rocky ride-he has good days and bad days! But mostly good!!!!

He is back to work as he got so bored at home but he has only gone back part time to start off with so he doesnt strain his eye too much. The inbalance of his vision that he had to start off with has corrected itself and he is now seeing comfortably using his contact lenses in left eye and reasonable sight in the grafted eye!! He still has all stitches in but overall he has no pain and his eye looks really healthy!! The itching he was experiencing at the beginning has become less but when it occurs he puts so of that lubricating water drop in- cant remember the name

We had a bit of a dilema last night though coz our Jack Russell- (Scooby) decided he wanted to help daddy put his antibiotic drop in and then teethed a hole into it and then he handed his steroid drops into Jareks hand so then we gathered what had happened!!! (The bottles were up high on the table- but he's like a frog))We had to see the funny side to it but Scooby was been sick this morning so I think he has learnt his lesson to keep off!! Luckily I got the antibiotic replaced quickly with a smile on the doctors face!!!

Anyway hope all is well with everybody!!

Rach-x

oh-I forgot!!

A quick question for the professionals or anyone who knows!!

He's having a problem with bright lights at work in the workshop he works in but his bosses are unsure on how to rectify this as he has a worktop next to somebody else so he needs the light!

How would we sort this without the light been too dark so he doest strain his eyes?

Any suggestions?

Thanks-x

Sounds like good progress.
As regards the lights, it's hard to give a good answer without knowing the layout of the office.
I gather tha person next door needs good light, so they can't be turned off.
Is it possible to put a screen, or possibly a more directional light shade, so the person next door's lights shine on his desk and a screen from Jarek's?
Alternatively, to screen off the actual light source, so there is a screen between him and the actual light bulb, the the worktop itself is illuminated?
That's if the problem is actually the light sources themselves.
If the problem is the glare of the reflected light off the work surface, might polarising sunglasses help? - they cut out reflected light, such as off wet roads for drivers.
It is harder to find them than it once was (well, it was when I last tried) but the RNIB do some, and there's a company called Cobolt, who I got mine from, that do polarising wrap round sunglasses, amongst many products for vision-impaired people (Ugh! hate that term!!) - such as talking watches, talking kitchen and bathroom scales, etc.
HOpe you/he/they can get that sorted.
If you get problems, you could try asking either Access to Work people (through local jobcentre or whatever it's called now) or else the union, if it's a unionised workplace, for advice from their equal ops/disabled workers' setup.
Rosemary

Im actually waiting for some polorised wrap around glasses to arrive through the post- I bought them on ebay and there really funky and stylish- thats what he likes so thats what he gets else he wouldnt wear them!!

They have those strip lights in the workshop at the moment and they are like those long bulb kitchen lights that flicker when they go on!! But saying that his eye is getting stronger every day its just maybe for the time being thats why I invested in some polorised glasses!! He has some bog standard wrap aroind sunglasses at the moment that he never has off outside but he is always complaining about the glare!!

So we'll see!! Thanks for the kind advice Rosemary!!- How are you getting on with your recent graft?

xx

Good to know that things are going so well.

I am sure that the polarized glasses will make a difference!

Yours aye

Andrew

Hi.
Hope the polarised glasses do the trick. I know what you mean about flickering strip lights - they can be annoying indeed.
My graft - well, latest installments on the "Good luck to Rosemary" thread. As regards the eye itself - someone gave me a lift home yesterday evening, and when I shut the left (my own) eye and kept the right (grafted) one open, all the headlights, street lamps, traffic lights, etc looked like illuminated fir cones. Quite pretty in a way but not very helpful and no idea if they're meant to be like that1
Rosemary