***Wow so this is what happens when you don't blog much, you get a post from over a year ago in the drafts folder. I am sorry for the delay but I shall now post it now 1.5 year later. EEP!***
This post is kind of self explanatory. I had Lasik done several months ago. I wrote this post but never proof read or published it. This was written two weeks after my procedure so I wouldn't forget. Now I shall share it with you.
Thus far, 2 weeks after Lasik, I am a super fan. The above picture is the morning of the
procedure. One of the last times, for a while I hope, that I wore glasses while going for a
run with my mom. We ran a little over a mile and then showered, dropped off the
fur children and day care and went to the eye doctors.
After a while we came back to one room. They checked my eyes
again, put some numbing and antibiotic eye drops in them and had me take my
chill pill. We waited, my leg bounced. We waited some more my leg bounced some
more. Then it was time for me to go back to the procedure room. I introduced my
mom to the lady that has been my main contact for of this process. We sat and talked
and my leg bounced. Then they said okay it's time. My mom headed out not
wanting to watch, but it was A okay, I had Boo Boo. He is my stuff kind of
sucks right now bear. Tiny, squeezable, cute, with big feet
From there I walked into the room and laid on a bed, eh not
really a bed but a place to lay. I scooched to the end and they positioned my
head, inflated a pillow around it to keep me from moving. They then explained
what they were doing again and some of the sights and sounds. They previewed
what the laser sounded like and told me they would walk me through everything.
As you can tell I am generally a curious person but for this,
not at much. I laid there with both eyes closed, focusing on my breathing and
keeping calm and still. Right about the time I had my breathing close to smooth
they said it was time.
They taped my left eye down and put me under the machine
that would make the flap in my corinea. They did this by putting a device
around my eye that kind of looked like how you dye Easter Eggs. This would keep
my eye open. They then placed a suction cup on my actual eye. I could kind of
see still but everything being so close to your eye it gets really blurry. The
next step was this machine was lowered down and made the cut. That is the part
when you vision does go black for a few second. There is some pressure but
nothing too crazy. I think goggles you push on your face for swimming has more
pressure. Then once it is cut, they take off the suction cup, remove the eye
opener thing, you close that eye immediately, they remove the tape from the
left eye, place it on the right eye and repeat the process again.
Now that both have eyes have their flaps made I laid there
with eyes closed, focusing on breathing, focusing on keeping still, thinking
about it being half way done. Accepting that it isn’t too bad, we are almost
there, this was my choice, and everything will be okay.
While I am in my head they move me under the machine that
will actually do the fixing. During this process they have me open my right
eye. I think they just taped my eye open this time instead of the egg dye
thing. I could see the doctor moving something on my eye. I feel like it I was
the flap. Like see him moving it out of the way, but I could not feel anything.
Then they put the machine over my eye. Yes you can see stuff but at the same
time you cannot. You see an orange blinking light they want you to look through
and stare at without moving. Then there is a black ring followed by a hailo of
bright white lights. Then they start the machine and you here the zap, zap, zap
for me I think they said like 45 seconds. I had poor eye sight, the worse the
vision the longer with the laser. The whole time they are saying don’t move,
keep looking straight, you are doing great, 30 second, good job, keep looking
straight, don’t move, keep looking straight, 20 seconds, you are almost there,
good job, keep looking straight ahead. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Good job almost done.
While this was going on in my head I was
going I cannot really see the orange dot because everything is so close to your
eye, how can I tell if I am looking straight? As they counted down I kept
going, almost there, almost there, only a little bit more, you have this, you
got this, keep going. Oh thank goodness.
Then you get pulled away from the machine, you see the doctor move the
corena over your eye again and then it looks like a little rubber paint brush
like kind out of nail polish bottle come across your eye. I assume their might
be some kind of glue on it? Or they are just trying to make sure all the edges
are down and smooth. This eye is now done, they tape it close and move onto the
left eye. Same procedure is completed for that eye.
After the left eye was done, and painted they had me lay there for a minute while they
deflated the pillow and had me sit up. Once I was sitting they asked me to read
the clock, I could, it said 10:15am. They helped me off the bed thing, and walk
out of the room and down the hall to sit with my mom.
She said she was sorry that she left me but I said no
worries I had Boo Boo and understand eyes are weird thing for my family
sometimes. I sat there with my eyes closed. This is the part I was not aware
would happened. I had been warned could not touch my eyes for a week or it
could cause problems. I did not want to touch them I wanted to squeeze them
shut with all of my might. That however made a weird feeling in my ears, like
of like they had balloons in them or something. I an attempt to keep my face
from scrunching up and squeezing my eyes I pushed a hand on my forehead to keep
the muscles from moving. No more leg bouncing while I waited.
They called me back and mom and I walked to the eye exam
room again. They sat me down, had me stare into a bright light, went over the
steps for the next week or so and then we walked out. I kept wanting to keep my
eyes shut but they were like you can open them you can see. I had some wrap
around sunglasses on and headed to the ctar.
Once I was in the car mom drove me home. We stopped to pick
up something to eat at Mcdonnalds and then headed home. The whole ride I kept
pushing on my forehead to keep my face from squeezing. I almost feel asleep at
one point. Once inside the house I ate my burger and went to bed. I was in a
beautiful slightly drug induced sleep for about 5 hours. Honestly, next to the
vision improvement the nap this procedure offered afterwards was half of my
excitement. I woke up a few hours later, and was able to join the fur children
and my husband for dinner and we watched a movie before going back to bed.
The next morning, I took a shower, careful to look away and
keep my eyes closed the whole time. Mom and I went back to the eye doctors and
had them look at my eyes again. They had me read one of the eye charts with
different lines and pronounced me to have 20/20 vision. I think the last time I
had 20/20 would have been maybe second or third grade. We then were free to go.
My eyes were a little tender and they still seem a little
dry, as to be expected, and life is good. I keep thinking I forgot to take my
contacts out when I wake up in the morning but I feel like that feeling will
probably pass soon.
If you are thinking about doing Lasik I recommend it. Please
leave a comment below with your thoughts or your story of Lasik. 
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