This morning I had a scare because I woke up and my left eye was all blurry and it usually isn't blurry when I wake up. But I put in my eyedrops like usual and got dressed and went to work. Still my left eye remained blurry. I got a huge headache (I've been getting a lot lately because I have to read and use the computer so much between work and school and fun). I also noticed that my eye was scratchy and irritated, like it was right after the surgery. Suddenly I remembered a caution from the eye doctor--I would know that the flap they had made in my cornea was askew if my eye went blurry and felt like it was scratchy and irritated, as if there was something in it, but there wasn't, and eyedrops didn't make it go away.
I was really worried at this point that I was going to need to go and see my eye doctor today and have them fix the cornea flap and then I'd have to wear the sleeping googles for another week (I just went off them, and am sleeping so much better). But I couldn't leave work so I stuck it through. Eventually it was time to put in more eyedrops. Immediately my eye felt better--I could see and the scratchy feeling was gone. I was so relieved! My eye had must've been overly dry.
And THAT is why this is on the Happy Thread! Because it is great that the problem was a dehydrated eye rather than a messed up cornea flap. Yay.
Consequently, I've been using eyedrops like a fiend to avoid such a scare again.
