Supervision

It's done!

My lasik surgery was at 10am. They gave me a valium and in 20 minutes I was ready to go. Actually, I should have asked for another one because as soon I walked into the surgery room I was extremely nervous. The entire procedure was very fast, as I expected, but it was more painful than I was told. They put a speculum to stretch your eyes open which felt very weird and unnatural and then they put in drops to numb my eyes. The anasthesic drops stung really bad for about 15 seconds and then they started poking at my eyes. Not painful, but very discomforting. Then they lowered a small suction tube that felt like heavy pressure on my eyeball and proceeded to cut away a flap of my corneal tissue. The laser itself was the least painful- I didn't feel it at all. However, it was very hard to focus on the red light as I was supposed to, because my eyes felt very tired and I really wanted to blink. When it was all over my eyes were in a lot of pain and they stung really bad- I couldn't open them at all. They gave me a vicodin and I went straight home to sleep it off.

I woke up 4 hours later and... I could see! My eyes still stung a little bit but I could see just as well as I normally would with my contact lens. Of course I still had to wear my spiderman goggles but at least I could open my eyes. The rest of the day I had to sit and rest my eyes whenever it stung, which was about every 3 minutes. It also felt like a random pin would prickle my eye every couple of minutes. The doctor described this sensation as "a small grain of sand stuck in your eye"... but no.. it really felt more like a pin prick.

In the evening the stinging started to go away and my vision is getting clearer by the hour. I still have a hard time focusing but I'm not supposed to be using my eyes anyway. Supposedly, when I wake up tomorrow my eyes will be almost completely healed without any discomfort and I will be able to see clearly!

So... it's time to sleep :)