T-Minus 18 hours and counting…Cue the Laser
Tomorrow at about 9am I will go under the knife? in front of the laser. While I am slightly nervous right now, tomorrow I should be relaxed:
I will administer 5 - 10mg of Valium in pill form 20 minutes prior to your procedure. The Valium will help you relax during the procedure and also help you sleep easier when you return home.
I will be getting PRK surgery on my eyes tomorrow and will shortly thereafter if all goes well, be able to do something I haven’t be able to do in 20 years. See without my glasses or contacts. Wooo-hooo.
Several of my friends have been kind enough to point out that while I know personally at least 10 people who have done this and loved it, they know someone for whom it didn’t go well. The way I am looking at this is my friends have been nice enough to identify the statistical outliers that prove my procedure will be safe and flawless. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
My best friend had the surgery done last year (which is why I am going to the same place tomorrow) and has been very happy with the results. I’ve wanted to do this for years, but always said I would wait until Steve did it so I would know it had finally become “safe enough”. Steve did it about a year ago (right before the start of Longhorn Football Season) and I am doing roughly the same time. I started setting aside the money in my flex spending account so that I could use pre-tax dollars to pay for it, save about 30% and stick it to the man! Take that “The Man!”
So this will probably be the last post from me for a day or two, but hopefully if all goes well and I can still see on Thursday I’ll drop by with an update.
Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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Good luck! Best thing you can do post Lasik is keep your eyes closed for 24 hours. Also, ski trips are a pain for the first 6 months while your eyes are super dry — I recommend skipping this ski season. (I had to get off the mountain one day because I couldnt see post lasik).
I think I will try to do that. I plan on sleeping after arriving home and then watching some TV when my son gets home from school. Maybe I’ll try for more sleep and less TV.
Are you still happy with your results?
I guess if we start getting posts now with a bunch of spelling errors and jumbled letters, we’ll know why. Good luck.
You seeing straight yet?
glad it went well.
had everything crossed….