I've been back a few hours. I was first of six patients this morning, had to be their at 6am. Everything went like I expected, the only change was I apparently was under more anesthesia the first time. Today it seemed to take much longer and I felt more claustrophobic. Once they put the drape, that's what they call it, over your face and you laying flat, almost tilted with your head lower than your body. It gets more uncomfortable. The good part was, that I was only in recovery for only 30 minutes, saw the doctor three hours later and the eye was already 20/40, which he said was great. I feel about 90% normal, whereas my first eye I was in a funk for about 3 days and had to wear shades in the house. I don't even have shades on now.
He told me to just take it easy for a week, don't bend over for that time, don't lift weights for a month, and it was OK to play softball a week from Saturday on the 9/6. I'll see him again next week before then anyway, one week post-op.
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