Dr. Noz placed a few more drops in my eyes, an eye cover over my left eye, and then inserted an apparatus to hold my right eye open. It pulled a bit, but nothing was painful at all. Next, Dr. M. took a drimel type tool with what looked like a small electric sander piece on the end, and began to sand my eye. Yes, that was a little freaky, but again, I felt nothing - not even pressure. Then, he took a small spatula, like the little spatulas that you get with moisturizer sometimes, and cleaned off the surface of my eye. Again, I could see it all, but I could not feel anything at all.
The laser was next. He rotated my chair under the laser, realigned it, and then asked if I could see the blinking red light. He explained, "All you have to do is watch the light. That's it." He moved we out from under the laser once again, made some adjustments, and then said, "Are you ready?" I was very ready for all of this to be over with, although I was not anxious anymore, I just waned to be passed it.
The laser made popping noises and I could smell something like burned hair, but I felt no pain at all. It lasted only seconds. He swung my chair out from under the laser again and Dr. Nov flushed my eye with a cool solution, and I could see the smiley face on the ceiling crystal clear. It was amazing. A contact and another solution were placed in my eye to protect the raw surface, and the crystal clear image became blurry once again, but that was ok and completely normal.
The process was repeated for the left eye, and only minutes later, I was walking out into the waiting room to greet my mom and walk across the hall to the regular office. Dr. Nov accompanied me, made sure that I was situated and did not have any more questions, and then Connie came in to give me all of the follow-up instructions. All of the instructions were written down, and my mom was there to hear them, as well, which was great because there were a lot of instructions. She reviewed 6 different eye drops with me and gave instructions for how to administer them and how frequently. Then, she reviewed it all again as she put the eye drops in my eyes. Again, I was completely comfortable and without pain. Moments later, I was adorned with some very fashionable goggles, made my follow-up appointment for Friday, and we were out the door by 10:45am. Wow!
The ride home was a little rough on me. I felt car sick because I had my eyes closed the entire time. (Car sickness is not uncommon for me, so I was not worried.) We went to PF Changs for lunch. It was great! Next, we were off to the pharmacy to pick up a new pain medication and the eye drops that the pharmacy had to special order for me, and then we were headed home. I was instructed to eat, put in the drops and take a nap. And nap I did.
When I awoke, I was good; still adjusting to the goggles and the sensitivity, but good. My eyes were EXTREMELY sensitive to light, so I wanted to just be in the dark. The remainder of the day was relatively uneventful. I took my valium to help me sleep, but since I was not in pain, I skipped the pain meds.
I awoke in the middle of the night in a panic. I could not open my left eye. I tried as hard as I could to open it, but it would not open. I breathed deep and tried to relax, but I began to panic. I needed to open my eye to know that I could still see out of it. I was so afraid that I could not. I woke up Blake, he tried to help me, but he just did not understand my panic. I eventually got a few drops in my eye and relaxed enough to fall back to sleep, only to awake a few hours later to find that I could not open my right eye. My left eye was find now, and so I knew that my right eye would be fine, too. No panic attack this time. I managed to get back to sleep, but I did not sleep well.
Sorry if there are a lot of typos today. My vision is really blurry this morning.
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