This was my first weird day during residency so far. It was like everything gone wrong with every on of my cases. The first was supposedly simply J tube for feeding but the patient first had a doomsday feeling and then went into PEA arrest where heart stopped beating but still sending electrical activity. This happened when we busy starting IVs and intubating. We almost didn't believed it happening but we reacted quickly. Of course, case was cancelled.
Then we got another add on, which was a disaster as the surgeons didn't know exactly what they are going to do until they open him. Of course, we have to prepared for the worse. Since we were somewhat ready, it wasn't as bad as expected. Just busy throughout the entire time to make sure he was very stable.
Whew! what a day. busy, long, tired, so happy when I got relieved to go home. My feet hurt and I just wanted to sleep.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Month 1
Wow! It's been a month since the surgery. It's been going great. My vision is clear pretty much all the time with occasional bouts of haziness that clears up with blinking and eye drops. Today at the check up my vision was 20/15 right eye and 20/20 left eye. Got a cornea mapping done and had prescription checked, had a little of astigmatism on the left, which I was told that it should get better as time goes on. Otherwise, I use now about 3-4 vials of eye drops unless I have a really bad day, not common.
Night vision is also slowly getting better. Still got the starbursts but completely clears up when I blinked. I have been able to read the normal computer print about size 11. I have also resume my attempts in working out when I could and officially got the go ahead to get into pool and hot tub. Yeah! I ran out of my steroid eye drops by the end of 3rd week and I call my doc and was told that it's fine to just stop. Hopefully there's no repercussion from stopping the drops early. I can't wait to have my dry eyes go away completely. I asked how long and was told about 6 months to 1 year with PRK closer to 6 month spectrum and LASIK closer to 1 year spectrum. Hopefully by Thanksgiving, my dry eyes will be thing of the past.
The only funny thing is that in the morning and after shower, I was in the habit of looking for my glasses since I was 6. So now all of the sudden that I don't need them, it felt like I'm missing something at times. The feeling is getting better and I sure don't miss wearing glasses and getting headaches from them. Now just waiting got 3 month check up!
Night vision is also slowly getting better. Still got the starbursts but completely clears up when I blinked. I have been able to read the normal computer print about size 11. I have also resume my attempts in working out when I could and officially got the go ahead to get into pool and hot tub. Yeah! I ran out of my steroid eye drops by the end of 3rd week and I call my doc and was told that it's fine to just stop. Hopefully there's no repercussion from stopping the drops early. I can't wait to have my dry eyes go away completely. I asked how long and was told about 6 months to 1 year with PRK closer to 6 month spectrum and LASIK closer to 1 year spectrum. Hopefully by Thanksgiving, my dry eyes will be thing of the past.
The only funny thing is that in the morning and after shower, I was in the habit of looking for my glasses since I was 6. So now all of the sudden that I don't need them, it felt like I'm missing something at times. The feeling is getting better and I sure don't miss wearing glasses and getting headaches from them. Now just waiting got 3 month check up!
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