Thank you all for your prayers, guys. I got through my surgery great and I thought I'd go ahead and share my Lasik story. Please mind any spelling errors because my eyes aren't completely clear yet. I'm wearing an awful pair of eye shields with tape across my field of vision... and it's only been ten hours since my surgery (as I write this). So please bear with me! If you want a laugh, I'll go ahead and share that I'm typing this entry in a big font so I can read what I'm writing better. :)
Here is one of the last images you'll ever see of me in my glasses. This is incredibly exciting for me, since I've become so sick of them lately. I loved my contacts, but since I've become allergic to them, I've had to wear my glasses every single day for the past several months. It can get quite frustrating.
As soon as I arrived at the eye clinic, I went to the front desk and they gave me a Valium. I've never taken Valium before, so I was expecting to become entirely loopy, but it didn't affect me a whole lot... well, at least I don't think it did.
After I took the meds, I was led into a waiting room with a few other people. We had to wipe off our faces, put our hair in white caps and our feet in little slippers. I waited for a little while and then was taken into the operating room and told to lay down on a gurney-like bed. They put a thing under my knees to hold my legs still and they put my head onto a circular rest. One nurse held my hands and one helped to hold my head completely still. (I was trembling like a leaf at this point.)
The entire operation lasted only about six minutes--three minutes for each eye. It was basically painless. I had some mild pinching with one of the clamps, but that was bearable. Pretty much, all I had to do was stare at a green light for a few minutes while they did nerve-wracking things to my eyeball.
From what they tell me, they suctioned my eye to keep it still, cut a flap in the middle of my eye and pulled it backwards like a hinge, and then used a laser to fix my vision. After that, they put the flap back down, rinsed my eye with cold saline water, and sponged it down.
After I was done with the surgery, they put me in a wheelchair, which I found funny at the time because my eyes were operated on, not my legs... and I could see fairly well. However, the medication did make me a little dizzy, so after I tried to walk later on, I realized why they made me ride in a wheelchair.
They brought me into a post-op room and put terribly ugly shields over my eyes, taping them shut. And then I was done. I wasn't at the clinic for more than an hour. Awesome, right?
Here is a picture of me with my ugly, ugly eye shields. ;)
Since I had to stay awake for six hours during the procedure, the amazing Rebekah came over and brought me a Starbucks vanilla frap and played Wii with me for a couple of hours. She even had to take senior pictures this afternoon, but she still took time out of her day to play with me. Something funny... I totally destroyed her at Wii, even though I was half blind. We laughed and laughed.
The day is finally almost over. I'm going to bed right after I finish this blog post, which I'll share with you guys tomorrow morning. I started out seeing everything like I was in a fog... I guess because my eyes were so inflamed. I can see a lot better now. I was even able to watch a movie--Princess Diaries--with Ali when she came home. I can't wait to hopefully see 20/20 tomorrow morning.
Random note... I got the hiccups four times today. Does anyone know what causes something like that? Nervousness, perhaps? I don't know.
I have a few continuing prayer requests. Thank you so, so, so much to those of you who have been keeping me in your prayers.
One, that my eyes will heal and not have any complications.
Two, that I now have 20/20 vision so I won't have to get an enhancement and go through all of this again.
Thanks so much, you guys. Your prayers have meant so much to me. I have an appointment at eight tomorrow morning, so I'll continue to keep you all updated.
I've been praying Emily! Hopefully everything goes perfectly. It will be so nice for you to not have to wear glasses. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad things have gone well so far, am keeping you in my prayers.. I think you look incredibly stylish in you lovely eye shields ;)
ReplyDeleteRandom question... could you feel them doing the things to your eye, even if it wasn't painful?
Thanks for the prayers, guys!
ReplyDeleteAnd Anny, I could feel them doing things to my eye. The numbing drops kept away the pain, but I could feel the suction when they put the suction cup thing on my eye and I could feel the vibration of the laser. But even though I could feel those things, it wasn't that bad since they didn't hurt.