Now I See.

The surgery was a success! Definitely not all that painful (except for one or two “pinches”), more along the uncomfortable side. Since I was pretty much blind without my glasses, I must say that the whole process was definitely worth it for me. I still don’t have my full vision back, but I’m almost 20/20 right now. Cool.

The actual procedure was really quick. I was in the operating room for maybe ten minutes at the most. My only qualm about the whole thing is that I probably wouldn’t want to know exactly what he was doing before I walked in there. Sure, it’s good to know what all those tools are for…but I would have been just fine with: “this won’t hurt a bit”. What was the most uncomfortable about the whole process was knowing that that little squeeze of pressure on my eyeball was them lopping off my lens. Since I they were operating on my eye, I could actually see them coming at me with their eyeball tools. This wreaked havoc on my thinking:

Melissa’s Inner Monologue: This is very Clockwork Orange. What if I make a superhuman blink and I bust off the clamps on my eyelids?? Oh my God what is that thing?? He must be getting ready to open my cornea. WhatamIdoingherewhatamIdoinghere?? Oh! That wasn’t very painful at all…look there it goes and now everything is really extra blurry. So now I have to watch the yellow light…ack! There’s the laser! It smells like burning…that’s my cornea burning. Gross. Ooh! There’s a green light too! I wanna look at that light too…No! I can’t because then that laser’ll totally burn a hole in the wrong part of my eye. Don’t look at the green light don’t look at the green light don’t look at the green light. But it’s so shiny.

Anyway, the process continued like that. I feel that had I not known exactly what was going on it would have been more like “look at all those lights”!