My patch feels different than last time. I think Dr. Opth put something under the patch to put pressure on the eye. It doesn’t bother me, it just feels different. I popped half a Vicadin to keep any pain at bay … and it seems to be working fairly well.

My appointment for de-patching was at 2pm. It’s really a killer to have the lights from Dr. Opth’s machines on my eye when it’s this light-sensitive. Dr. Opth seems to be pleased with how it looks. He didn’t use stitches this time but I wasn’t sure what my eye would look like. I mean, would I have a gory crater there? ha! Dr. Opth put me back on the 4xday medicated drops, plus using my Refresh drops hourly. He also put some drops in my eye that he said would keep it dilated for a couple of weeks and thinks that will help my vision during that time.

I got some special eye covering at Dr. Opth’s office. They are so strange! You remember the dark “sunglasses” that we got after having our eyes dilated during an appointment? These are like that but without the arms to go over the ears. Instead, these unroll and kind of wrap around your face to your temples. They stay on really well when worn behind my glasses but not so great in front of my glasses. Unfortunately, I look really funny wearing sunglasses behind my regular glasses … kind of like wearing a bra over your shirt!

I went to the restroom after leaving Dr. Opth’s office so I could take a peek at my eye. Wow, much better than I thought. The eyeball looks a little rough, but no big crater. What’s really amazing is that my eyelid is barely swollen. However, I’m prepared with my eye packs at home in anticipation of it swelling. I’m thinking it’s still “flat” because of the pressure of the patch.

EXCITING NEWS!  Dr. Opth called me around 4:30pm to let me know he’d run into the pathologist in the hallway. All the tests came back negative! The melanoma is gone! Yea!

Took another Vicadin before bed.