Post-Lasik

Written on 2004-01-15, at 8:33 a.m.

Well, I'm alive and well, and, while my vision is terribly, terribly blurry (which is supposed to be normal, so they said, for a few days following surgery) it's clear that it's much better. I'm typing this an arm's length away from the computer without glasses and, hey, that ain't too shabby. My alarm clock is directly above my pillow on a nightstand, and it used to be that I couldn't even see that without moving my head so it was two or three inches from the clock; I can now see it from well across the room. Huttah.

The operation itself went well, but it was still a bit unnerving. While they give you plenty of anesthesia so there's technically no pain, you're still fully conscious and aware of the fact that they're pushing your eye, slicing open your cornea (seeing that happen gave me the jibblies) pouring various liquids on it, and other things probably better left unsaid. A nurse, who I certainly didn't see before surgery without my glasses and who had left right after it was finished held my hand throughout the operation, and without the pain but with the whole psychological factor of knowing they were screwing with my eyeballs, I took advantage of this.

Anyway, I'm very dirty right now and I need to take a shower (while wearing swimming goggles, since my eyes can't get wet) and then put three kinds of eye drops in my eyes, two of them four times a day and one of them twice a day. I'll have fun figuring that out... TTFN, more should come later.

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