Friday morning I woke up at 6 and went to the gym for a workout. I was unsure when i was going to get another one in because at 915 i was going to be getting Lasik Surgery. I powered through a training session and ran home to get ready. About 30 min later my ride came and picked me up to go toward the eye dr. I checked in at the dr. and in a few minutes the were leading me back to a prep type room. While here I was able to ask questions, they gave me instructions, followed by eye numbing drops and a vallium. They waited about 15 minutes for the medicine to take effect. I was feeling very relaxed by the time I walked into the Lasik operating room and was greeted by two assistants and the dr. They have already removed my glasses by this time and my eyes were awful 7.5/7.25, which means what I see at 20 feet away a person with 20/20 sees at 750 feet away.. so you with good eyes imagine that 'E' eye chart about 2 football fields away.... that's how clear those letters are to me at 20 feet. Anyway, so needless to say I could not see much walking into the room. I knew there were 3 people and i spotted the chair i was to lay on with the help of one of the assistants. They maneuvered me into position and told me not to move. My right eye was first... they put something on my eye so that it would stay open the whole time and used a drying type cloth everytime my eye watered too much. Then they cut the flap with a Laser .. I went with the newest technology called iLasik ... they call it the HD version of lasik - all is done by a laser .. and the laser has the technology to follow your eye as it moves so it is always hitting the correct spot.. i felt a little pressure as my flap was cut with the laser, much like when you press in on your eyelid with your thumb.. then all went black for a few seconds .. the dr. warned that it would so I wouldn't panic... next came the reshaping of the eye with the laser. The doc said to stair at the red dot for 47 sec and I would hear but not feel the laser.. so for the next 47 seconds I concentrated as hard as i could on that one spot. After that he used a little tool like a squeegy and placed the flap back in its correct spot. Then he moved the machine over my left and we repeated the whole process again. When it was finished they helped me up and had me look at the clock.. things were very foggy but I could already read what time it was on a clock, I wouldn't have even been able to see the clock 5 minutes before. They led me in a post op room where the doc came in and met with me.. he said it couldn't have went better and answered my question of when I would be able to workout again (I may have some issues when this was my only question after having a laser shot in my eye) he told me to recover for the day and i could hit the gym the following day. At this point my eyes became very sensitive to light and i just had to keep them closed. They gave me some very unfashionable eye goggles to wear the rest of that day and night and then the following 4 nights while sleeping to avoid any gouges to the eye that could damage the flap. Also leaving with me were 3 kinds of eyedrops and instructions of when to take them. My friend guided me out to her car and I had to wrap my head in a shirt because even my closed eyes were sensitive to the sun. I could actually feel the flap healing.. it was kind of painful at first and just got less and less painful over the next hour. I was advises to take a nap and relax my eyes as soon as I got home which was no problem because of the Vallium. I made it home and was glad to be in a very dark room and laid down for a nap. I slept for the next 5 hours. When I woke up I had no more pain and I could see!! The rest of the day I spent laying around watching movies and napping. Sat morning I drove to the eye doc for my follow up appt. In the appt my eyes tested at 20/15!! The slight haziness from things far in the distance just keeps improving and was told that is normal over the first couple weeks and will be completly gone within a few weeks. It was a huge success and am excited to throw away the contacts for good!
-GwB
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