and without contacts or glasses! i got my lasik op about 24 hours ago and i am loving every minute of it!
there was no pain at all. want me to describe the process? if yes, read on, if not skip to next paragraph.
after the pre-op evaluation, i was found to be suitable candidate and i immediately asked for an op asap, the same day if possible ha ha pity i could only get it done the following day. anyway, when i arrived for the op, a lady first explained the eye drop procedure for post op care, sounded complicated but realised not that bad after all. After 2 guys checked my eyes, one of them the doctor whom i met for first time (similar checks the day before), i was asked to wait in a pre-op room. then suddenly it is time, so anti-climax, no warning, not reassurance...the nurse asked me to put on a "shower cap" got me to lie down on the bed. explained i have to stare at the red lights, one blinking one not, but eventually during the op, both combines. then another nurse came and put numbing drops, luckily she put them like no need money like that so i didnt feel much at all. so both eyes numbed, both closed and covered. then suddenly heard doc's voice and he asked me to open right eye. so now it really starts, he never even asked if i was ready! so anti-climax...ok here goes my right eye, first he inserts in the retainers to prevent eye from shutting, it felt like a mini tongs that open outwards that pops into the top and bottom of the lids (eeeeeeeeeeeee) no pain, just weird discomfort. then puts in a tape on the top lid to hold the upper lid from closing i think. now comes the most scary part! he puts in the suction thingy the sucks up the eyeball, this one can feel tension. then all goes black. cant feel anything except the tension on the ball. then when light comes in again, apparently the cornea has been cut! so can see him coming in with tweezers to well, tada! open up my cornea!!! immediately the blinking red light go blur. all the way they put lots of donno wat eye drops, cold and cold. ok after the flap has been flipped, the laser starts, no feeling at all, just stare at the big patch of blinking red light, cant see anything else, all blur. got the zap zap sound and burnt smell ha ha i wanted to asked if they are cooking me! but decided not to distract them. my right eye zap 20s, left eye zap 25s. then once cooked, more drops. tweezers bring the flap back and can actually see him "sweep" the cornea flat to remove all air bubbles hee hee hee no discomfort at all. more drops. then out comes the tape, and the retainers. more drops, close and cover up. at this moment i thought to myself, should i make a run for it, before they cook my left eye ha ha ha but anyway before they started, more no-need-money numbing drops on the left. the right feels nothing. and the whole proceedure starts for the left eye. just as cooked as the right yum yum! after that they make me sit up and walk to an gadget where they check the flap and the closure, i could actually see the way although it was blur! so he saw a lash in the left eye and used a tweezer to pick it out ha ha imagine a lash half under cornea and half sticking out! cool and er... ticklish? so ya then went to a recovery room where you relax for 30min eyes closed.
after 30min in the recovery room, the doc came into check my eyes again and gave me the green light to go home after showing me how to adminster eye drops to myself (i am quite an expert now you know). i stayed for a while to observe the ongoing op, it was PRK, where they scrape the cornea off then a contact lens protects wound vs lasik where a flap is cut then covered back. wah, the brush they used to "brush" off the cornea was like those tiny paint brushes you use for painting delicate corners ha ha ha ha so ya then i realised i could SEE! i felt like i had some clouded contacts or glasses on, good vision but blurred. it got better through the evening and i even went to a nice restaurant for dinner hee hee i was good and kept lubricating the eyes every half hour (this has to be done for the next 3-4 months every 3 hourly). i slept with eye protectors, think the FLY.
this morning, man... this morning, i could see the moment i opened them! i can see clearly now! i cannot believe it! still little cloudy feel but of my gosh! it has been wonderful! i couldnt believe it and kept testing my eyes at signs and numbers! ha ha the post op check up was perfect and was told to return 2 weeks later.
so ya the whole op was painless, more the imagination and the fact that they are cutting and not forgetting cooking your eyes that makes us comfortable. but hey relax and so soon, and anti climatically, it was all over. ha ha i am so glad i got it done finally.
hee hee pardon my rambling, no checks for spelling, grammar whatsoever has been done ha ha
a blur picture of a squirrel outside the house
cloudy view of whistler
