Wednesday 7th May

It is now two weeks since my eye operation, to relieve the pressure in my right eye as you may remember.  I have been back three times now to the outpatients clinic and each time my eyes have been measured again.  At first there was no discernible improvement,  both eyes in the region of 20 (20 what they never say).  They measure the pressure by the amount of refraction a blue light shows when shone through the eye and then through a prism which splits the reflected beam and it is measured on a scale.  Quite clever, and painless too.

When I was first referred to the Glaucoma clinic my eyes were measuring 30 in each eye.  Over about ten months this had reduced to about 20 in the right and 18 in the left eye.  Improvement but not fast enough.  I have had to put eye-drops in last thing at night and first thing in the morning all this time.  At last the time came for my op.  and it really was okay, no pain or discomfort at all.

Today I had two of three stitches removed from the top of the eye itself, you cannot see them they are underneath the eyelid.  When the pressure was recorded it was 14 in both eyes.  A marked and steady improvement.  Now why being operated on my right eye should also have a beneficial effect on the left I do not know, maybe it was a sympathy blink, but steady progress is just what they were looking for.  Great.