I Can SEE!

My Lasik eye surgery was about two weeks ago. I can say I am very happy with my vision today, my surgery was a success.  I had a really hard time writing a follow up for my surgery without being too negative and whiny.  So time has passed, and I am hoping it will come out better now.  IT HURT!! Apparently, my pain threshold has dropped since the birth of my children. I used to be a fairly tough girl, but now I have turned out to be a wimpy woman, and I am not exactly happy about it.  Once again I have lost control of one more thing!  I have talked to people who have also had Lasik and they claim it did not hurt. At first I figured this is similar to the labor pains mothers experience, they are awful, but manageable for just one day, and the result is the birth of a child, so you begin to forget the pain!  Yet there many moms that will torture they're kids for years about how awful the birth really was. Everyone is different, I hear this alot, yet all that really means is, "Bummer, sorry it was so bad for you, lucky me!"

I was anxious the day of surgery, however they gave me a pill to relax. When I went into the surgery room, they handed me a teddy bear to hold, and I thought they were joking!  I did cry after they did the first eye, I have to say it was nothing like a fish sucking on my eye as some say.  It just plain hurt and was uncomfortable with all the lights flashing and then you must look at a green blinking light the whole time. All the while people just keep dropping different types of drops in the same eye, and at one point your vision goes completely dark.  I just tried to think, one down one to go. The doctor said, "Wow, are you okay? Maybe we should stop before going on to the other eye."  I said, 'NO, just get it over with'! Thankfully the right eye was not as extensive of a surgery, and was over before I knew it. I really thought the worst was over, no pain no gain right?  However, they then told me that the worst was yet to come, the first four hours would be painful and that I should go home and sleep.  I warned my husband that he would be with the girls, for at least the first day, good thing too.  I was in bed for at least four hours, but I hardly slept at all. I experienced the worst itching and burning pain, it made me want to gouge my eyes out, so I took more Motrin and slept about 20 minutes and then after about 30 more minutes the pain thankfully began to subside. After that sensitivity to light was the next step and then after a couple of days I was driving during the day. Sure my youngest daughter did poke me in the eye and I had to go back and have them fix it, just a wrinkle they said. It was sore for just two days and then it was almost Halloween and my husband asked me, how were my eyes and I realized they were excellent. So a week after my surgery I was driving at night, with no problems at all.

Though the experience was not one I wish to repeat, I would still stay it was worth it. I have to remember at night not to think I need to take out my contacts.  As I am laying in bed and wake being able to see the city lights, I keep reminding myself, that no I did not not fall asleep with my contacts in! Some people like my husband, have been lucky enough to have been born with a good eye gene.  I hope my poor eye sight is one thing my girls don't inherit from me! I really appreciate my sight now, even when I get a baby toe or finger poked in my eyes!

Halloween with no Contacts or Glasses!