So this January I officially became no longer blind due to Lasik.
It was an interesting process, and by interesting I mean scary. My new advice to all Lasik patients is to self-medicate, because I am pretty sure that the 'Valium' they give you is really a placebo.
I went to Dr. Booth (Mr. Boothe's House 'O Lasik) along with approximately half of the Dallas population. I would describe the process as 'a cattle-like assembly line' which is what it felt like. This guy must be rolling in it - I got my surgery at 7 pm, and I heard one of his assistants say he had 27 more surgeries to go! Of course, the actual time of the surgery is around 1 minute per eye, although it feels like a lifetime.
Actually, the surgery itself wasn't that bad, it was all the care afterwards that they don't tell you about that makes you want to kill yourself. Here are some of the joys I got to experience:
- putting one of 5 different eye drops in every 10 minutes for a week
- every night I had to put in a type of eye neosporin, followed by my husband taping 2 plastic 'shields' to my face.
- not being able to wash my face, put on make up, or touch my whole face for a week - which due to the above treatments, created eye stalactites, and a general grossness. I wore my sunglasses 24/7 all week. When I wasn't being forced to wear my goggles, which made me look like a 1920's pilot, and caused several motorists to drive into trees from laughing.
-I also got to wear the googles in the shower.
All in all, it was a fun week. I'm sure down the road it is going to be completely worth it, and I am already enjoying the ability to be able to read in bed, and go right to sleep. I'm definitely excited about not dealing with contacts during trips, although I am pretty sure David wanted me to get it done so I wouldn't drop his future children when I got up with them in the middle of the night. Here's to a future of sight.....
