EYE feel great

Honestly, I still can't believe it. I 'm sitting here with no vision correction anything and I can see just fine. I can see the fancy clock says it's 20 degrees inside (huh, ought to fix that ...). I can see the words on the spines of the books. Not that this is new. As a wearer of contacts and glasses for more than 20 years, I'm accustomed to being able to see things. Just, you know, not all the time. Just, you know, not without carrying around contact solution and spare contacts and glasses just in case all of the above fails.

This is amazing.

The process was painless. Hannah drove up with me to be my chauffeur home. (I will politely not discuss how lost she got on the way home. :) At the office, they want to give you a Valium to help you relax, but I refused. I mean, I have had three children by natural childbirth and have stuck my fingers in my eyes daily for 22 years. Seriously, how bad could it be? Having gone through it, I can't fathom why people NEED the Valium. I laid on a table, they taped my eyelashes down (which you can see in Hannah's cell phone photo from the waiting room), pushed a thing on to my eye that sucked made a vacuum seal and made me blind for a moment, cut a flap in my eye with a laser, pulled the flap back, lasered it, put the flap back. Switch eyes. Repeat. Honestly, it took 15 minutes, and I didn't feel a thing except the suction during the cutting. Crazy how easy this was.

I am sort of stunned by technology. I knew I was going for this procedure. I know lots of people who've had it done. I just don't know when it will sink in that I can see without help. I have worn my glasses for the last month and pretty much hated it. One night, though, my mind lost in deep thought, I found myself with my contact cases out, filled up, digging around in my eye upset that I couldn't get my contact out. It took a few minutes before it dawned on me that I would be shedding this habit. I felt silly (fortunately, no one was looking) and have since taken all the eye care stuff out of the medicine cabinet (to prevent a relapse).

I'm feeling pretty darn grateful for this tonight. If Bob didn't work in radio, there is no way I would have had this opportunity. Nor would I have this awesome eye gear that I get to wear to bed for a week: