Assisted Living: Dealing With Everyone's Emotions

Assisted Living: Dealing With Everyone's Emotions

2 Tips That Can Help You Recover From Vision Correction Surgery

by Julia Gregory

Vision correction surgery is a fantastic procedure that can help you reduce or eliminate your reliance on eyeglasses or contact lenses, but there is a bit of recovery time that is necessary before you can fully enjoy the benefits of the surgery. Listed below are two tips that can help you recover from the surgery as quickly and as effectively as possible.

Protect Your Eyes

One of the most important things that you can do after undergoing vision correction surgery is to protect your eyes as much as possible. In most cases, the biggest danger to your eyes following the surgery will be dislodging the corneal flap that was created during the surgery. In order to avoid moving the flap, you are going to want to keep yourself from rubbing your eyes.

The easiest way to do this is to always wear eye shields when you sleep. When your surgery has been completed your surgeon will provide you with either hard plastic glasses or eye shields that you can tape over your eyes every night.

This is important, as it will prevent you from rubbing your eyes on your pillow, mattress, blanket, or with your hand while you are sleeping. This protection will also prevent you from rubbing your eyes absentmindedly while you are still groggy and sleepy in the morning.

Another way to protect your eyes is to make sure that you always have eye drops on hand. This is because your eyes will likely get dry more often after your surgery. By utilizing eye drops you can keep your eyes moist and comfortable which will reduce the urge to rub your eyes.

Keep Over-the-Counter Painkillers on Hand

Another important tip is to make sure that you have some basic over-the-counter painkillers at your home. This is necessary because there will be some discomfort after the surgery, but not enough to warrant prescription painkillers. In most cases, simple ibuprofen or other over-the-counter painkillers will help you cope with any discomfort for the first day or two following the surgery.

However, make sure to speak with your eye surgeon before taking any over-the-counter pain medication to ensure that it does not conflict with the recovery process. In addition, if you do experience more pain than over-the-counter painkillers can handle, then contact your surgeon as soon as possible because he or she will likely be more than willing to prescribe stronger painkillers for you.

Speak with your eye surgeon today to discuss the various things that you can do to help you recover from your surgery more effectively. Over-the-counter painkillers and eye protection can help you avoid any complications or discomfort during the recovery process. If you have any other questions about vision correction surgery, consider speaking to a local eye surgeon, such as Todd S. Kirk, MD.


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Assisted Living: Dealing With Everyone's Emotions

The decision to move one of my parents into assisted living was one of the most difficult I have ever made. I had extreme feelings of guilt that led to me being at the facility with my parent practically around the clock. It took a few months before I realized that I could not let my own life fall apart from the guilt I was feeling. I also learned that my parent was fine without me constantly hovering around. Since that time, I have had several friends express similar feelings of guilt. I started this blog to help others in the same situation understand not only their feelings about assisted living, but those of their parents.

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