Keratoconus-- Part 2

UPDATE: Yikes! I'm not so good at getting these posts out, sorry! This was about a month ago...
We are now 3 weeks and 3 days post op and Todd got the sutures out of his eye today.
In part 1 I said that I would update his progress 4 days after his surgery but at that point I really didn't have anything to add because he didn't have a noticable change in his vision. The surgeon did warn us that this would be the case but we were hoping he was just being cautious and that Todd would in fact notice a difference. Needless to say, Todd was disappointed and some what discouraged by what the next few weeks were going to be like for him. Because he couldn't wear a contact on that eye his vision was worse! His vision in his right eye with a contact lens is 20/80 which, I believe, is considered legally blind so safely driving was not an option. I had to drive him to work which meant a 2 hr. round trip twice a day leaving the house by 5:15 a.m. then leaving again at 3:30 to pick him up we knew this wasn't something we could keep up for very long.
 His job requires him to work on a computer or read paperwork all day so having poor vision in one eye and horrible vision in the other brought to mind a humorous saying "blind in one eye and can't see out of the other". Not so funny when it actually applies! At a follow-up visit 10 days post op we explained what a hardship his vision was and that we weren't sure how he was going to be able to work for 4+ more weeks like this. We had considered applying for some type of disability benefits but had no clue how that all works. After thinking for a moment his doctor said that in Todd's situation that he would allow Todd to begin wearing a contact lens again but just to drive and for work. He warned Todd that the lens may not fit and that the correction would probably be wrong too but that it would at least allow him to drive and work. When we got home Todd put his old lens in and was relieved to join the land of the seeing once again! It wasn't perfect but it was better than blind!
So today he got the sutures out which was something that we were told could improve his vision because the suture was slightly pinching the eye to where it might possibly cause an astigmatism. After the surgeon removed the sutures Todd saw the optometrist to see what options Todd had from here.
She explained that Todd has 3 options for contact lenses.
1. A hybrid lens similar to the Synergeyes lenses that he tried with no success.
2. Piggyback lenses which is wearing first a soft lens and then on top of that lens his RGP lens.
3. A lens called Sclera (read more here)
In talking over these options it was decided that until Todd's eye has healed more that the piggyback lens would be the best option for him. I had never heard of piggyback lenses! First a soft lens is placed on the eye and then the RGP is worn over the soft lens. The soft lens allows a more comfortable fit while the hard lens brings the correction. Who knew?!