I am right now on day 4 after surgery. I thought I would provide a brief progressive update.

Day 0 - the day of surgery, right after the surgery, my operated eye (right eye) was completely covered by a plastic cup and taped over my face. Inside the cup they stuff some tissue paper to kind of keep my eye closed, so it was difficult to open my eye a little. I felt on pain, and after surgery I drank two bottles of water because I had nothing to drink since midnight and my surgery was 1pm the next afternoon. I eye felt a little sore, and I did not take any Tylenol. There were no bleeding or leakage that I could tell, I basically stay in bed except for meals and bathroom breaks. Note that I have a membrane peel procedure so no need to do the face down some of you had to.
Day 1 - first thing in the morning 8am was the post-op appointment with the retinal surgeon. First it was the tech who pulled the tapes and opened the eye patch, my first reaction was double vision. There was a rectangular mirror on the wall and I saw two mirrors a clear one from my left good eye and a blurry outline of a second mirror to it's lower right. She irrigated my eye and took my eye pressure, it was 10. Read the eye chart and my right eye couldn't read, I could see the outlines of the letters but it was not only blurry but also distorted, the letter B and number 8 looked the same to me. For some reason they didn't do a retinal OCT scan that day, when the doctor saw me he looked into my eye with a bright light and said looks good, swelling, some bleeding and sore is normal. I have been using Bromfenac 0.09% drops 2X a day to try to control the ERM and Latanoprost 0.05% 1X a day to control IOP, he said to continue with those two and go back in one week. The rest of the day when I opened and closed the eye it felt a little like sand in the eye, and I think that may be the stitches interfering. I looked at my eye in the mirror and my right eye was swollen and blood shot. Wore an eye shield at night.
Day 2 - I woke up and looked in the mirror and the eye has swollen even more, I can't even open my eye lid half way. I took multiple naps and kept the eye shield on all day since I laid down most of the time.
Day 3 - The swelling seems to have reduced a bit, eye still blood shot, but I can open my eye lid a bit wider, the sand in my eye sensation has gone, but feeling some itching sensation around the eye. I used some cotton pads with distilled water to clean the area near the eye very gently. Vision is still unsteady, I would say worse because prior to the surgery, my left eye was basically taking over, now after surgery, the right eye is affecting the overall vision, so I am hoping that it will improve over time where both eyes will help each other instead of fighting.
Day 4 - The swelling has subsided a little bit more, the eye white area still look quite red and raw, but as long as it's improving, I am hopeful.

Right now I was told I can't carry anything heavier than 5 pounds, so I don't know how long before I can go grocery shopping where I can carry the groceries back inside the house instead of one bag at a time. Heavier stuff like a 2L bottle of water or a watermelon I just can't do it without help.