My Lasik story

So I will try to type about my Lasik although I have to wear sunglasses while I type so it's a little hard. The description may sound freaky and I'll start by saying it wasn't painless or completely easy but I had the hardest most expensive surgery. I would say it's like going to the dentist. A little unpleasant and painful but in the end you feel better.

I went in this morning at 11. The place it set up so you can watch people getting the surgery before you go. I watched a little but it started to make me feel queezy so that stopped. Around 12:45 they finally called me back into the doctors office. They tell you ahead of time you will be at the place for 2 hours and since the actually surgery is only about 10 min technically they weren't late so I wasn't mad.

Ok here comes the details stuff so you might want to skip if you don't like reading medical stuff. I laid down on a table and they gave me little squeexe balls if it hurt, They put the anesthsia drops in my eyes (liquid cocanie for those of you who didn't know) Then they taped my eye open and put these frocep type thing that pried my eye open. The next step was the worst part of the whole prcedure. They put this lifesaver looking thing on my eye and used it to push my eye into my head so they could make the flap. This pressure hurts and actually made my eyesight go away. Then they cut the flap. Again this doesn't feel good. It wasn't the laser but the pressure that really hurt and freaked me out. It was the longest 30 seconds ever. Then they slide you to a different machine to do the actual laser fixing. This was just weird b/c you have to focus on a blinking light right above you but it's actually really hard because your eye wants to wander and you have to focus alot. Then they do the same thing on the other eye. Seruioly it was 10 min and I could open my eyes afterward and I could see across the room to my mom in the waiting area. It was cool. Having worn contact 24/7 it was like having my contacts in so not totally cool like for people who only wear glasses but still cool. They give you tylenol PM before the surgery and I was def ready for bed. But I stayed up in the car so I could walk into my room at home.

When I got home I was supposed to go to bed to sleep off the pain. However I had hit the point where the pain had started and I couldn't sleep. You have to wear these goggle things so you don't poke your eye while you sleep. However they were catching the tears from my eyes making me very uncomfortable. After about 1/2 an hour of pain I finally got my mom to dial the phone so I could call the lasik place. They told me unfortunately it was normal and to take more Tylenol PM. If you wear contacts the feeling was like when it feels like you contact has dried to your eye and you do the popping thing the get it free but I couldn't pop my eye. If you don't wear contact then just REALLY dry ecxecpt my eyes were watering faster than I could wipe. So my mom gave me an ambion and I finally passed out and slept for 5 hours.

I woke up feeling good. Started my eye regieme (there are lots of drops and lots of different times) I slept more than I expected b/c of the ambion so luckily my mom and dad kept Reese all night. I woke up in time to put her to bed. So now I sit here wearing my hot sunglesses not feeling any pain and able to see as good or better than w/ my contacts. So while it wasn't a walk in the park I'm glad I did it. I'll update again in a few weeks once my eyes are healed.