One week out from cataract surgery with Symfony

I had my left eye done one week ago (the cataract in my right is fairly minor).  My surgeon insisted on laser-assisted surgery.  We both felt the Symfony would be a good choice of IOL for me.  We aimed for some residual myopia for better near vision.  I'm not sure yet what exactly we hit.  I was highly myopic (~-11) so it's harder to hit the desired refractive error precisely.  Overall the vision in that eye seems quite good functionally; I'm not able to read the newspaper but aside from that functionally it's great.  There's still some shadow/fuzziness on the eye chart, but it's just a week out.  The surgery itself went great.  I had an ICL implant that had to be removed, but that was clean and easy, the hexis was perfect, the lens is perfectly centered and seems well aligned.  There's no inflammation or edema in the eye (some inflammation at the incision as expected).  I do have a moderate amount of astigmatism, so a toric Symfony lens was used.  Prior to surgery my left eye was pretty bad; I relied on my right eye for everything, so it's quite nice being able to see clearly out of both eyes.  Eye pressure is great (14 in the operated eye and 12 in the other, but it varies day to day).  I'm hoping my near vision improves over the next couple of weeks.

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