So the last few days haven’t been too hot for my eyes. It seems my epithelial layers weren’t quite ready for prime time. After removing the bandage contact lenses, my eyes were scratchy. This was expected as the surface of your eyes are sensitive. However, they got more and more scratchy and irritated as the day went on.

The next morning, I woke up and this same spot on my eye was still hurting. It felt like one single grain of sand stuck under my eyelid. When I looked into the mirror, there was a red spot with blood vessels kind of swollen around it. I got pretty scared as I thought I had some kind of ulcer in my cornea or something. I called the eye center and they told me I could come in right away. I got there and Dr. Davis looked at my eye and told me a little patch of epithelium had been lifted off. He said it was no big deal as some people’s epithelium are still loose for a while and come off if your eye gets too dry. He put a contact lens back in and said to stay on the drops and come in two days later.

Fast forward to that night, and my other eye started to have the same scratchy feeling in the same spot. I went to sleep early so it wouldn’t get any worse, but the next morning it was still hurting. It wasn’t as bad but I couldn’t really work well, so I went in again. He was a bit surprised to see me back again, and even more surprised to see the same exact thing had happened on the same spot in the other eye. He put another contact lens in and sent me home.

So apparently these little incidents won’t really have any effect on my vision or healing. I just need to use my antibiotics and wear the contacts a bit longer and I may get some more viscous drops next time around.

On a better note, my vision has really gotten a whole lot sharper in the last couple days. My right eye is probably about 20/20 at this point. However, my left eye seems to be lagging and is blurrier. It’s kind of annoying having an imbalance and I really hope they even out.