PRK Recovery: A Year Later
by benstewart
One of the major search results that bring people to my corner of the interwebs is “PRK recovery.” While that is far from what this blog is generally about, that is something that I blogged about when my wife had PRK surgery about a year ago. I still remember all of the emotions that happened leading up to the procedure and especially during the longer-than-expected recovery time. We wondered if we had made a huge mistake–if she was going to recover or if her practically blind condition was going to be permanent. We searched the web for anyone else’s experience to compare notes and hopefully get some kind of reassurance that things might just turn out OK.
Well, it’s been a long time since my last update on Rebekah’s PRK eye surgery and that is because we haven’t really had to think about it in a long time. Rebekah still doesn’t have 20/20 vision (I think it’s about 20/25) but it is definitely good enough for her to feel good about having the procedure. As I said, it was a long and painful recovery process (much harder than we expected), but it ended up being well worth the time and pain. She still uses eye drops daily (usually in the morning but sometimes in the evening as well), but the dryness has been the only real side-effect. Overall it has been much better than the days when she had to wear hard contact lenses or glasses… although I do kind of miss how she looks in glasses.
(Maybe that wasn’t the best picture to post publicly.)
You can read the rest of the recovery saga here: