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While the stitches are in, it's terribly uncomfortable, like having fuzz stuck in your eye, and the stitches stay in for 6 months, minimum.
After that, if he's a good candidate for contact lenses, he'll be able to see quite well. I wasn't due to the underlying disease process so I required corneal shaping and now have 20/30 vision with a thick lens.
Rejection is infrequent as long as one is compliant with the eye drops. It really is a miracle operation that has taken me from total blindness in that eye to poor vision to really quite good vision---20/30 was the best I could get when I was a kid. I will have the other eye transplanted some time in the future, no question. It definitely pays off even with that miserable 6 months while the stitches are in.
The operation itself wasn't that huge a deal. They'll put him to sleep while they do the local anesthesia. He'll be awake but groggy during the surgery. He won't be able to see or feel what they're doing, he'll only see a bright light. His eye will be patched for the first 24 hours and then at night so he won't scratch it in his sleep. It's an outpatient operation, takes about an hour and a half and he'll be sent home as soon as he makes sense.
The stitches feel awful for the first couple of weeks and then they're only annoying. He'll use moisture drops to help soothe them.
The surgery isn't a really quick fix and 6 months is a long recovery time. However, it is miraculous.
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