@mkennedy did she have to wear hard contact lenses (RGP) before/after transplant surgery?
Same here!! What's up with that anyhow?! I guess our eyes change for the better and for the worse after a certain age. ?????ÿ
I have to wear hard contact lenses (Rigid Gas Permeable).
I wear the same type of contact lenses. Have since my freshman year of high school.
@squirl have you been diagnosed with KC (keratoconus)??ÿ I am starting to remember that you and I have had this conversation before, too...
Not officially but I have been told that my eyes are taking the shape of "footballs" which would indicate that I do also have keratoconus. I've tried soft contact lenses and my vision just isn't nearly as crisp as it is with gas permeable lenses.
It doesn't help that I'm blind as a bat without corrective lenses of some sort.
@squirl mine are described as deflated footballs. ?ÿ(That??s what she said??). But seriously, folks.
I've worn Ortho-K gas permeable contacts for 25 years now.?ÿ I'm a severe myope, 20/800, which Lasik cannot fix.?ÿ Ortho-K contacts temporarily flatten your corneas (which is sorta like clay) so when you pop them out you have 20/20 vision for a day or two before your corneas go back to your original vision.?ÿ They can correct up to 20/500 vision.?ÿ ?ÿThe normal protocol is to wear them at night and have 20/20 vision without them during the day.?ÿ Pretty cool!
My eyes are too bad to be fully corrected by Ortho-K but when I pop them out I have 20/80 vision which is almost good enough to legally drive.?ÿ I wear them backwards, during the day instead of in bed.?ÿ The optometrist was disappointed but I consider them a godsend; when I wake up in the morning I can read my wall?ÿ clock, etc.
@mkennedy did she have to wear hard contact lenses (RGP) before/after transplant surgery?
Sorry! I missed this, and haven't been visiting this site. Yes, she did, and still does. She's worn contacts since high school in the late '50's. The new corneas didn't substantially change her prescription except the astigmatism. Her new lens (post-cataract surgeries) don't completely fix her myopia.
If I wore contacts, I would have to wear RGP because of my astigmatism, and possibly the high myopia. I tried them in my early twenties, but my eyes watered all the time. I was in university so chronically tired and dealing with the cleaning regime and the inability to just fall asleep wearing them and to wear them for an entire day, was too much so I gave up and went back to glasses.
Look away.
I have a colleague who would make these really nice looking plats. Only problem with them was that the text was often L60 and smaller. Now he complains years later how much trouble he has reading his own plats.?ÿ
EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE LOUD AND ALL TEXT NEEDS TO BE BIG, THE BIGGER THE BETTER!!!!!!
ALL TEXT NEEDS TO BE BIG, THE BIGGER THE BETTER
I used to work with a guy that took 2 pages in a field-book, to write 1 number...
