Early lens fitting after graft

[rosemary johnson]

Well, took new lens (in eye, I mean!) to WIndsor races this evening.
Great muddle adn confusion - pourng with rain when I set out, sunny by the time I arrived.
reading glasses to read form notes in Racing Post/race card (=programme of events, sold by racecourse).
Push them down nose so can read form guide thrugh them and then look up at horse walking round parade ring whose form I'm just read up on.
Then push reading glasses up onto forehead to go and walk round from parade ring up onto grandstand to gt a view of the race itself - because if reading specs still on end of nose, would be likely to fall over steps and go flying.
pull down reading specs once in place, tut-tut irritated, get out handie (or shirt tail) to wipe of smears, rain drops, etc. Replace on tip of nose so can see through them the racecard page witht he horses' (well jockeys') colours to try to learn while horses are getting redy at the start.
Now, you try putting binoculars to eyes hurried with reading specs still perched on tip of nose! If the respective eyepieces don't get caught up, the binoculars neckstrap will.
Then guess what? - the sun comes out! As if I wasn't already getting confused enogh with ot eing used to reading specs, or to seeing much inthe distance (or at all) from that eye, I now am grabbing for subspecs.
Realised onthe journey I'd brought the wrong pair of shades - ie. not the ones that allegedly fit over glasses. Bit awkward sitting reading the racing post on the riverbus ..... yup, to get to Windsor races, you get the train to Windsor station, then get the boat up the river to the racecourse pier.... fortunately, not too much sun reflecting off the water at that stage.
ut even shades that fit over glasses aren't much help when you're trying to perch the reading specs on the end of the nose and peer over them at the horses parading by.
SO there I am with the shades onthe forehead trying to give some shades at least, the reading specs perched onthe end of the nose, the binoculars...... the hat with the brim pulled down to make more shades, except if I do that too much, it keeps dislodging the shapes so they slide down onthe the end of my nose.....
.... and in the midst of all this, one of the Big Screens opposite the grandstand, showing the current race here (for close-ups of action at the far end of the course, or when the horses go behind trees, etc), racing from the other courses, and relays of the last race finish etc ) develops a fault, and all the horses in the last race replay have suddenly acquired a ghost doule image!
As if we people with KC didn't have enough problems seeing our own ghost double images of everything, without the big screen making another set to confuse matters!
Maye it would be simpler if I just asked Innovative Sclerals Ltd if they could make their contact lenses with a polarising coating on????
- on the other hand, it might make it a bit dark and gloomy to go and sit in the bar with a cup of tea to relax after the last race.
(Ilove Windsor Races - they have a large marquee which is the bar for Owners and trainers of horses running on that day, plus the annual members (roughly=season ticket holders) which includes people who are annual memebrs of other racecourses and coming on a reciprocal day,a s I was today. ANd they offer free tea dna coffee. Which means there is a drinks machine and you go and help yourself. They have revamped the bar since I was last there and got a new drinks machine. I wonder if it will prove as good a social centre as its predecessor(s)? - which were definitely good as converstion-starters between strangers. If you see what I mean!)
TOok the lens out onthe train coming home, as had been in long enough. Didn't feel too bad and vision still quite good, but as soon as I took it out, it felt like it was very glad I had.
Eye now quite sticky and not very painful but definitely think it was time to take the lens out. Will have to see how it feels tomorrow.
Oh well, early days yet, I suppose. I may have been wearing scleral lenses for over 32 years (!!!!) but the PIECE of someone else couldn't possibly have done (he wasn't old enough).
Rob CM - how's your graft doing? - are you still looking forward to getting a lens on it?
Rosemary

[robcm]

hi everyone

now 2 months post graft and i have a scleral lens fitted! this gives 6/6 vision and is comfortable to wear all day. it's really an amazing result, as preop i could only get to 6/36 with a tight scleral that i could only tolerate for a few hours. so all has been going swimmingly...

until last saturday morning when i woke with a painful red left (non operated) eye. moorfields a&e confirmed uveitis, which i last had 10 years ago. so now i'm on a ridiculous hourly regime of steroid drops and dilating drops into the left eye. and no longer have stereoscopic vision. it's all a bit disappointing as i'm due back to work in one week. hopefully i'll be able to reduce the eye drop burden sufficiently by then so it doesn't interfere with work. to this end i'm seeing a uveitis specialist tomorrow.

anyway, mustn't focus on the negative. the graft has been a wonderful succes and i'm now kicking myself that i didn't go for it earlier. the other thing i've learnt is that a scleral lens can be fitted and tolerated one month after a graft, and in many ways it makes the eye more comfortable.

hope everyone is doing well

rob

[Andrew MacLean]

robcm

Well done! 6/6 with comfortable wear. Can't ask for better!

Andrew

[rosemary johnson]

Rob, WOW!!!
Scleral in one monthon, and wearing it regularly 2 months on. Very good!
Well!
Admit I didn't try putting one in till 3 months post op - and wouldn't have been able to face up to it earlier, I think. And mine is still a question of tolerance; definitely doesn't improve anything.
Jolly well done! And to the fitter and I guess the surgeon too.
SOrry tohear about the uveitis. Bummer! Hope it clears up PDQ.
Rosemary

[rosemary johnson]

Rob, what news? How are yu getting on?
Hope the uveitis has improved.
Have you had any problems with the vision going misty? - maybe the hypoxia Ken said was possible. If so, does it go away as the eye gets used to the lens again?
Rosemary