Eye See with my one Eye......

So I had Lasik surgery on Monday, November 8th by Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute. I wasn't scared or nervous mostly excited. The experience in itself was not bad though not pleasant. I felt like I was rushed into the surgical room. They barely let me lay down and rearrange a blanket that I was using before they started working on my eyes. They started with the left eye. The part I was most nervous about was them placing the contraption that holds your eyelids open. That part wasn't too bad. It was when they were placing the microkeratome that cuts the flap on my eye that was very uncomfortable. He kept placing it and moving it and had to try a few times. The sound of the thing cutting my eye was also louder than I expected. They then placed the cutter on my right eye and cut it. This time it took less placement. After the right eye was cut the surgeon commented on the hinge and the two doctors said something I couldn't hear. They then used the laser to do the right eye after flipping back the flap. It was quick. Then they went back and flipped back the flap on the left eye and did the laser. When this was done they placed protective contacts in my eyes. I asked the surgeon "What about my hinge?". He said that nothing was wrong with it and that it was perfect. I was then basically rushed out of the surgery room since they had more people to do. My mom drove me home and from there it was drops, drops, and more eye drops on a schedule. My mom was there to make sure I got all my drops in as I was tired since I had done the surgery after having worked the night before.

The next day was the post-op. So here is the bad news. The left eye is great, but the right eye has an astigmatism due to the hinge on the flap and some epithelial cells that are sitting there. My eye is blurry. I can't see close or far with it. Very frustrating and upsetting. I just paid them $2800 for one good eye. So we scheduled another appointment for the Thursday.

A few days later on Thursday I went back in. After taking the various pictures of my eyes with some pretty interesting machines I was told that the cells were going away and that it was getting better. This was good. Make another appointment for Monday.

Monday came and I went yesterday for another appointment. More cells were gone and I was very slightly better. The good news is they can give me a contact as a crutch while the right eye heals and we wait to see if it corrects itself or we will have to do something else to fix it. The bad news is that it will take at the very least 2 months. Not the time frame I was looking forward to, but hopefully with this contact it will be easier to read and do homework again since having one good and one bad eye makes them fight each other. In fact I am typing this post with it looking blurry.

Finally today I had an appointment with my optometrist, Dr. Gruver. My fourth eye appointment in a week. He ordered me a contact with more strength. Of course, he also looked at my eyes. He dyed one yellow too. I looked like I got in a fight with a highlighter and it won. So at this point I am waiting on my contact to come in and waiting on my eye to hurry and heal. Hopefully it will heal into good vision and I won't have to do anything else. Just gonna have to wait and see.


It was real fun having everyone look at me funny when I went to Les Schwab to get some snow tires.