The Lasik surgery went great and I can see!
I’m sitting here looking out the window into the backyard. I can see the leaves of the ginger lilies that are at the end of the backyard. I can clearly see the trunk of the oak tree in the side yard of the house behind ours.
It’s amazing! I’m thrilled with the results.
Okay, lets go back in time a bit and let me tell you how things went.
My aunt took me to the appointment. When we got there I handed over the agreement for the surgery that I had signed and they gave me a pair of booties for my shoes. I asked my aunt if she wanted to go in with me but she said no.
I put the booties on and then sat in the waiting room for a few minutes. An intern came and took me into an exam room. There he took a picture of me wearing my glasses and then went over the post-op care. One of the things I was given was a bag that reminded me of a makeup bag. In the bag were dark sunglasses which I would wear home, an eye shield to wear when I go to bed for the next few days, a small bottle of numbing drops, a sample box of Refresh Tears, and another bottle with drops to put in my eyes.
The intern went over everything in the bag and then asked if I’d brought the prescription of antibiotic drops. I brought that out of my purse and he explained that I would put one drop in each eye 3 times a day, wait 5 minutes, and then put a drop from the last bottle in each eye.
The next person I saw was my eye doctor. He asked how I was doing, went over the information from the pre-op, discussed the surgery that I was about to have, and then asked if I drank.
That kind of surprised me and I told him I rarely drank. He then asked how I held my liquor. I wasn’t sure where he was going but I told him that when I did drink I typically didn’t drink that much so I didn’t know. His last question was “How nervous are you?” My answer “Very.” Then he said he’d give me a good dose of Valium to help me calm down.
I took the Valium and then had to wait a while for it to take effect. I’d never had Valium before so I wasn’t sure what to expect. It did calm me down but I don’t think it kept me from remembering the procedure.
As for the actual procedure, I can only tell you what I saw, heard, felt, etc. What exactly was being done I couldn’t say. I did get the DVD but I haven’t watched it. I don’t know if I will but my sister and brother both wanted to see the surgery so I got it for them.
For the procedure I laid down on a table with my head in a circle thing to keep it in place. One eye was taped closed. Several drops were put in the open eye so that I couldn’t feel anything. Then something was put in the open to keep the lid open. A machine was moved in front of my face and I was told to watch the green blinking light. For a moment my vision went dark and then I could see the light again although it was not as clear. I could tell something was brought in front of my eye and I could hear something running and a slight smell of something burning. Very slight though.
In a very short time a lot of fluid was placed in my eye and then I could see but not feel something being used to wipe my eye. A moment later I was asked to close my eye and told that that eye was done. They took the tape off my left eye, put it on the right, and then we went through the whole thing again.
My doctor had warned me that the left eye may seem worse or easier than the right. He said that would be in my head because there would be no difference between what was done with the two eyes. He was right only in that it seemed to take longer to complete the procedure on the left eye.
When I got up everything looked like it was in a fog. I was taken out to meet my aunt and we waited for the DVD. The nurse brought out the DVD, told me to come by tomorrow at 8 am so I could be checked out. I put the sunglasses on and we left.
I have to say those sunglasses look almost like racing glasses. They cover my eyes completely on the front and sides but don’t look bulky.
My aunt brought me home and I crashed for a couple of hours. When I got up I could see. It was wonderful!
My eyes felt scratchy when I first got up. I did use the numbing drops in them at that time. Right now my right eye feels a little scratchy but the left one feels fine. I’m going to see if putting the moisturizing drops in them helps instead of needing to use the numbing drops.
