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So, after years of saving up for ICL surgery, it's all finally starting to happen tonight! I've had a lot of emotional moments over the last few weeks which is why I've been very quiet, but to be honest, even though I'm very informed and I want to do this surgery, I'm still very scared about the results, and have been trying my best to not put myself in a position where I have to talk about it cause it brings up my nerves. I know I'll be fine after the surgery anxiety wise cause I'll know the results.
Anyways, tonight I have a pre-op treatment where they laser 2 holes in each of my cornea to relieve the pressure in my eye due to the implant so I don't get "secondary Glaucoma". I'll be leaving work early to go to that, and we'll hand in all the scary paperwork with my informed consent. Tomorrow morning I'll go in for the surgery on my right eye first, then just before lunch, my left.
I you want to see a video of the procedure I'm doing, here's a Youtube video- it's an 8 minute video [link] (Warning- this IS a surgical procedure so there is needles and incisions involved)
Afterwards I get some clear goggles to protect my eyes from me touching them, and the next day I'll get the thumbs up to if I'm legal to drive. We'll see how fast my eyes adjust then to if I go back to work on Thursday or Friday.
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So... yeah- I'm not sure how long it'll be before I can comfortably draw again. People are over optimistic on how fast I'll heal I think. The wound they make are all fast healing, and the immediate incisions all close immediately. my brain readjusting can take up to 2 weeks so we'll see how that goes. MY glasses change the shape of the world so I don't know how that is going to translate immediately for my art, or if my crosseyedness will fix its self like the surgeons are hoping. My specialist says that my eyes are fighting to not be crosseyed, but sometimes I worry that it's my imagination doing all the work, cause it hurts a lot to straighten them. *sighs*
What ever the outcome is, (aside from glaucoma or some other named issue I could get) it's going to be a MAJOR improvement for me and I'll be over the moon with any result I get. I look forward to post surgery eyesight, but right now? I could use a time travelling machine to get the spoilers
That might help all the tension issues I'm having waiting for it all to happen XD
Anyways, tonight I have a pre-op treatment where they laser 2 holes in each of my cornea to relieve the pressure in my eye due to the implant so I don't get "secondary Glaucoma". I'll be leaving work early to go to that, and we'll hand in all the scary paperwork with my informed consent. Tomorrow morning I'll go in for the surgery on my right eye first, then just before lunch, my left.
I you want to see a video of the procedure I'm doing, here's a Youtube video- it's an 8 minute video [link] (Warning- this IS a surgical procedure so there is needles and incisions involved)
Afterwards I get some clear goggles to protect my eyes from me touching them, and the next day I'll get the thumbs up to if I'm legal to drive. We'll see how fast my eyes adjust then to if I go back to work on Thursday or Friday.
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So... yeah- I'm not sure how long it'll be before I can comfortably draw again. People are over optimistic on how fast I'll heal I think. The wound they make are all fast healing, and the immediate incisions all close immediately. my brain readjusting can take up to 2 weeks so we'll see how that goes. MY glasses change the shape of the world so I don't know how that is going to translate immediately for my art, or if my crosseyedness will fix its self like the surgeons are hoping. My specialist says that my eyes are fighting to not be crosseyed, but sometimes I worry that it's my imagination doing all the work, cause it hurts a lot to straighten them. *sighs*
What ever the outcome is, (aside from glaucoma or some other named issue I could get) it's going to be a MAJOR improvement for me and I'll be over the moon with any result I get. I look forward to post surgery eyesight, but right now? I could use a time travelling machine to get the spoilers
That might help all the tension issues I'm having waiting for it all to happen XD
September update :)
IT's been a while since my last journal / art post, but I'm still around :) Again, I've been very busy on stuff!
The comic that I was talking about in my April journal is still happening, and I'm working on a lot of concept stuff in between everything else, but it's not goign to be ready for convention season in a few weeks time. It's OK thoguh, cause I'm finally finishing off a Captain America comic I started 3 or 4 years ago after Winter Soldier came out!
The comic is pretty small at 5 pages long, but it's been a HUGE boost to my self confidence, because a lot of problems I had with doing the comic on Silvyr was stamina, and my body havin
April catch up :D
Hey guys! How you all doing? I've been super quiet lately cause I've been very busy, and intimidated by my 15K backlog of notifications to get through and putting it off for future Killy's problem. I... kinda need to deal with it XD I know that most of it is deviations to look at so... I really hope I don't resort to mass deleting but I may need to T.T
Anyways, I've been really busy! Since my last journal in early February talking about how I was getting into water colours, I've been doing a lot more water colour art that I haven't posted cause well... I'm learning, and a lot of the pieces aren't going to turn out how I want it to, and that
Water colours
So I don't know if anyone has noticed, but I recently in the last month got into water colour. My friend slugette (https://www.deviantart.com/slugette) recommended a paper that doesn't fight me when I use it and suddenly, water colour art has become fun, and enjoyable :D I honestly thoguth till now that I was just rubbish at the medium and there wasn't any hope for me :)
So, right now I have 3 successful pictures to my name
I'm treating the water colour a bit like copics for now till I get use to using them, but I'm super proud of myself for how these are turning out TuT
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In saying this, I need to do some studies on skin colour cause MAN,
Art goals 2018
I've been super quiet here, cause I've been processing the months since my last journal. I went straight into convention season where I had my second Overload since getting back into conventions, and only cried through half of it before getting the courage to ask people why they weren't buying my art. Finding out it was all stuff I could improve made a huge difference to my emotional health- I think I might get through the next convention without crying :) I then had Armageddon the month later, then Christmas rush happened shortly after, then I went to Hawaii for a holiday and got back 2 days ago... SO BUSY
So the big thing I found out a mon
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Wow. I take it the surgery itself went well, no complications or anything. Hopefully you recovery goes well! Don't forget to do your exercises!(if they gave you any to do... 
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It will be interesting, as you said, if/how differently you'll see things. As far as your art goes surely it'd just come down to relearning some things (if any at all!).
)It will be interesting, as you said, if/how differently you'll see things. As far as your art goes surely it'd just come down to relearning some things (if any at all!).