PRK

On Friday Josh had a form of laser eye surgery called PRK.  He spent most of the weekend in a pain medication induced sleep, with dark sunglasses covering his eyes.  Occasionally he would ask for frozen peas, a glass of water, and me to set the alarm on my phone to make sure he woke up to put his eye drops in; for the most part he was a good patient.

He has "quarters" for the week (meaning he doesn't have to go to work), but of course he went. Thankfully, we had the long weekend and he had one extra day to recover. Tuesday was his first day out of the house, and we spent it getting me enrolled in DEERS and Tricare. He kept his eyes pretty well blocked from the sun with the dark glasses and hat.

Wednesday he got a ride to work, but today he drove himself. He has a follow up appointment this afternoon, where the doctor will take out the protective contact lenses that were covering his eye. From here out, the pain should be gone. He will still have to apply drops and now this ointment type medication until it runs out. He was also advised not to prolong his eyes to sunlight or submerge his face in water... This might be a problem, as we are leaving in 19 days for our Caribbean honeymoon.