Cant Keep Quiet!

I had my pre-op visit for my Lasik surgery today. One of the things they did was dialate my eyes. They still haven’t gone back to normal.

My appointment was at 3 this afternoon and it took nearly 2 hours. Dialating my eyes was done for the last few procedures.

It started with one of the nurses taking a picture of my eyes (mapping). The was the same procedure that I had first on my visit last week. I don’t know if they did the procedure today to make sure that there were no changes from the previous visit or because they didn’t like the first set of pictures.

After the mapping I waited a bit and then the eye doctor saw me. Not the doctor that will be doing the surgery. This was the regular (I guess) eye doctor you would see at a place that does glasses. I spent a lot of time with him today. Luckily he was handsome and personable.

We did the whole “check your eyes to update your glasses” routine. He also did a test to determine pupil refraction and pupil size. He put drops in my eyes so he could check for glaucoma and then rinsed them out. The eye doctor then put a drop in my eyes to dialate them, waited a minute and did some test (by this time I was a bit lost) and then put more drops in my eyes. He then took me out to the waiting area so I could wait will my pupils dialted more.

After about 20 minutes another employee came and took me into one more room for another mapping picture of my eyes. I think I’ve had more pictures of my eyes taken in the last few days then ever before.

Remember, I don’t like people messing with my eyes. I had to sit on my hands for the eye doctor to put the drops in my eyes. Anything involving “put your chin on the chin rest” was fine. It was the drops that got to me.

Well, the drops and the one test by the employee that mapped my eyes last today that got to me.

After mapping my eyes she brought over a device that measured the thickness of my cornea. To do that she had to hold onto my upper eyelid and put the device against my eye. I managed to hold still while she did the first eye. Then she reached across my face to do the second. I wasn’t sitting on my hands and they reflexively came up to block her approach.

She asked what was wrong and I explained that I didn’t like people messing with my eyes. She said she was the same way. She also move around so that she was on the same side as the eye she needed to poke. While she moved around I sat on my hands and held my breath.

I then went back to the eye doctor and he took a real close look at my eyes. He was checking the retinas and whatnot looking for any abnormalities that might cause problems on Thursday.

The eye doctor only found one abnormality with my eyes. He said that my lens had some strobing. He explained that the strobing was minimal and on symetrical on both eyes. He also explained that it could also be called cataracts.

The eye doctor explained that it is very possible that I’ve had them for a long time and that they do not effect my vision in anyway. He said that it wouldn’t be unheard of for a previous eye doctor to not mention them since they didn’t effect my vision. The eye doctor today told me about them because he wanted to be sure that I knew they existed so that later down the line if a different eye doctor mentions them I won’t think they were caused by the Lasik surgery.

He did a pretty good job of explaining that these strobes were on the side of the lens, very small, and did not effect my vision.

After that my exam was over. I left with a prescription for antibiotic eyedrops which I dropped off at the pharmacy before heading home. I was asked if I wanted sunglasses since my eyes were dialated but I turned them down for two reasons. 1) I have a pair of prescription sunglasses and 2) it was raining and gray outside anyway so I didn’t need them.

Now I just have to wait until Thursday at 12:40 pm.