SATURDAY (Surgery Day):
I was nevervous all week for the lasik procedure. From its description, it is a quite scary process. Your head its strapped to a chair, and your eyes
held open by clamps (very Clockwork Orange-esque), while you watch the doctor cut open your eyeball, and shoot lasers into it, and smell your eye ball burning, and hear popping, etc... But, its really not scary at all once you do it! I promise. You cant see what's going on that well, because your cornial flap is open.. so everything just looks blurry, and like you are under water. The procedure takes about 10 min. and you are done. Lauren was kind enough to drive me to and from the procedure, since you are not allowed to drive yourself. We leave the office, and my eyes are KILLING ME. I have to wear these douchey sunglasses all day and night, and it is nearly impossible to keep my eyes open. So I get home, lay down, and fall in and out of sleep for a little while. Around nightfall, I am finnaly able to keep my eyes open, I watch some "Jurassic Park" with CJ, he falls asleep, I finish and watch the end of "Weeds: Season 1".
Post-Op is the difficult part. I have 3 different kinds of eye drops I have to use, 1 for a week ,1 for 2 weeks, 1 for a month or more. The worst are the eye steroids, which are this sick milky substance that sticks to your eye lids. It goes through my sinus, and I can actually taste it, and feel it in my throat. Pretty sick! ( Not "Sick", as in " Oh Man! Its raining Pizza Rolls! Thats Sick!!!"). I have to sleep with plastic "eye shields" taped to my face for a month. I wake up, take those suckers off, and I have sticky face for a good part of the day. Why don't I just wash my face really well? Well, Washing your face is scary as shit! You are in constant fear of putting to much pressure around your eyes, which will do damage. The way the doctor and info sheet make it sound, any little action close to your eyeball, may possibly do some damage. I will just be happy in a month or so, when all Post-Op precautions are through!
SUNDAY: GraveYard Movie Night
Sunday I had to go back to the doctor in the morning. He was going to "wipe" my eyes, whatever that means. But, he said they looked perfect, and just to come back next week for it. So I left, and went and got my first pair of "real" sunglasses! Sunglasses, that are not the blue-blocker, old man, fits over my normal glasses, sun glasses. Went to hung out with Lauren and do some free laundry while she was house-sitting. Drove home to get ready for the evening. As I was driving home, I had this weird vibe. I couldn't explain it.. there was just an oddness in the air. I was at a stoplight at an intersection, when a car comes speeding by on my left, goes through the red light, and nails 2 cars. It was pretty nuts! Maybe that was the pinnacle of the odd factor? Anyways, I get home and get ready for the CEMETERY MOVIE!
Every Saturday and Sunday, they show movies in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It is a really cool cemetery where likes of Marilyn Monroe, and other old celebs are buried. This was my first time to go, but I have been wanting to ever since I found out about when I had just moved here. It was a lot of fun! Tons of people go. You walk through the cemetery to get to the open area where they show the movie. Everyone brought blankets and picnics, and games to play before the movie. It was great! I felt like it was the 4th of July and and I was about to witness a spectacular fireworks display! haha. The movie they were showing last night, was the 80s classic "Valley Girl" with Nicholas Cage. Everyone gets into the movie, yelling stuff, and clapping, and whooping it up. I would definitely like to attend again, but have a little more picnic preparation!
So, thats it. I have my eyes back, and am waiting out the post-op procedure. As much of a pain it is to take care of your new eyes for a couple months. It is/will be waaaaaaaay more than worth it! If anybody is considering lasik, it is so simple and easy, just do it! Or, if you have any lasik questions, feel free to ask me. haha.
1 comment:
Good to hear things went well! Sounds like a good decision...so everyone else must now have to get used to the new face of Skip! You think you'll miss the glasses? Sentimental? I want cemetery movies...
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