Hi Kolja:

Good luck. Glad you found the list. I also have to chime in about the half
glasses. I may as well just have spun around on a tilt-a-whirl for five hours.
Same motion sickness! But I wore a patch for a long, long time (1.5 months!) as
my right eye wasn't brought to 20/20 (very high myopia) and it was that length
of time over the holidays before I was given the green light to get glasses
(doctor claimed my eye would heal better. But it never did. I now have very thin
glasses).

Luckily I work from home!

It's a great procedure, despite the above. Don't let that deter you as, again, I
had quite a different prescription from you. I just had my one-year checkup.
Looks good and I was pleased he stressed I need to come back every year without
fail. I want someone taking the vaulting/ethileal (sp) cell loss seriously.

Jean

>>> Michael Dwyer <mdwyer@...> 05/16/08 8:59 PM >>>
Kolja Erman wrote:
> That makes sense of course but I was explicitly told not to wear
> contacts for 1 week before the procedure in each each eye
> respectively. I forgot to ask why but I suspect that since contacts
> slightly deform the cornea it could potentially affect positioning and
> vaulting of the implant and thus increase the risk of inaccurate
> centering and of contact with the natural lens. Not sure though.

I was told to not wear my contacts for a week before they /measured/ for
my lenses, but I didn't think to ask if I could wear one between
surgeries. In my case, it didn't really matter, since I was lucky to
have both eyes done within two days.

If you're going to be a while between eyes, I do recommend talking to
your doc about it. I don't think I'm making it clear how badly
half-glasses worked. I'm talking sick-to-your-stomach motion sickness
kind of stuff.

An eyepatch, though, would probably be a perfectly acceptable solution
-- and if indeed, you're not supposed to wear a lens before the surgery,
it might be the only solution.

In any case, good luck!