So far, the clinic hasn't called and cancelled yet, and I already picked up a bit batch of medicines and eye drops.

I have a good supply of artificial tears to keep my eyes moist (Systane)

An antibiotic eye drop (Vigamox)

A steroid eye drop (FML - lol @ name)

An eye drop that helps with pain (Nevanac)

 

And I have some pain pills. Three different kinds. Meep.

 

 

That means that as of right now, tomorrow, sometime after 12 Mountain Time, I will be getting PRK.

For those of you who don't know the process, they basically scrub away part of my cornea, Yes, scrub and scrap it away.

Then, they put the laser over my eye and burn it up for a bit.

 

And, all done. The whole thing for both eyes takes well under ten minutes. Closer to five, in fact.

 

 

 

I am still afraid they will call and cancel...but I have pills, and I am keeping them.

I will need them for the emotional trauma. hahaha

 

 

 

Anyways, once all is said and done, I won't be that active on DM for about a week.

It depends on how well I am feeling, how doped up I am, and how long I can focus.

Well good luck! What is this supposed to do, anyway? Give you better vision?

Sounds... painful O.o

 

Good luck Edysseus! *squish* :)

Good luck Ed!

It is supposed to give me 20/20 vision, Kae. *nod*

 

There are chances it won't correct it perfectly, but those are super low.

 

Thanks, Nya and Rand.

Sounds painful. Hope everything goes ok.

Me, too.

 

I just took my first dose of Nevanac. It's a weird yellow color. One drop in each eye.

 

*hates putting in eye drops*

Ouch. Good luck.

 

 

 

 

Does this mean you won't be able to play warlight either for a week?

lol, I'll be able to play. Looking at the computer is ok. But it becomes uncomfortable and blurry after a bit if you look for too long.

 

Thus, sporadic posting. That, and I'll be doped up. hahaha

Well I look forward to your corageous decisions on WarLight.

Heh. This should be interesting to see. I wonder if your doped posting will be anything like Leds drunk posting

 

 

 

 

In unrelated news, we're waiting on Rand and Kate in warlight.

I am on my phone so I cant yet.

Yes, we are waiting for Kate and Rand.

 

 

And he....I guess it depends on how many pills I take in one setting.

Friday or Saturday should be interesting. They say the third day is when you need the extra boost in pain pills.

You get some ibuprofen, some percoset, and some valium. You only get four valium, though. It's a much-needed boost, I hear. lol

So, PRK went well!

 

I am going to tell y'all about the experience, because it was pretty cool to tell the truth.

 

First, they brought us to a waiting room and gave each of us our packets that had our profiles and Convalescent Leave papers (Profile is something the Army gives you that says you are limited in performing certain physical activities. For example, if you had shin splints, you would get a no running profile for two weeks. Con Leave is medical Leave, and therefore, it doesn't charge against the Leave you accumulate throughout the year.)

 

Then, they brought in the surgeon who briefly went over the operation again. We had the opportunity to ask him questions if we had any. Pretty simple, there.

 

After that, two of the lab techs or nurses or whoever they were came in and prepped us. They went over the medications and eye drops one more time and then made us wear these silly (but sexy) medical caps. They put a numbing eye drop in each eye and then cleaned around our eyes with some iodine. After that, we waiting. There were six of us, and I was fifth in line to go in.

 

Waiting SUCKS! You sit there, nervous as heck, watching all the other people go before you. And even though they all come back and said they feel perfectly fine and that it didn't hurt at all, you are slightly scared. But who wouldn't be? You are about to have your eyes scraped and then shot with a laser.

 

So, skip to the part where they come and get me. Eep. It's my turn. I hand them my folder with my information in it, and they take me to the room next door. I am instructed to lay on this bed and scoot up, where they then move the bed over under the laser. They have me slide up until I can see a red-orange light straight on. It's disconcerting just knowing what they are about to do, and then they put some more numbing eye drops in your eye.

 

And then it begins. The surgeon places these little clamp-like things in your eye. They hold your eyelids open, and while you can't feel it on your eye, you still can on your actual eyelids. And you want to blink so bad, but the numbing drops do help resist that urge a lot.

 

So, clamp in my right eye, he brings his device up to my face. It looks almost like an electric toothbrush without the head. He brings it down, and you can kind of feel your eye vibrating, and your vision shakes a bit. And the weirdest part is you can see this thing right on your eye. You can see around it at the same time that you know this tool is right on your eyeball! That is against nature. It's just not right.

 

Bam. He is done scraping at your eye within 15 seconds. It's half way done! He uses a small spatula-like scraper to clean your eye off. Kinda weird. But you don't really feel that either.

 

And then comes the laser. part. They make sure you're lined up, tell you too look at the red-orange light and don't move. For my eyes, and the prescription I had, I needed to stay under the laser for 31 seconds. It doesn't go by super fast, but it wasn't slow, either. You can see the light clearly at first, but then it starts going blurry and hard to focus. As long as you are looking at the light, though, you are good. Once the laser has done it's job, the surgeon squirts a bunch of nice cold water over your eye to make sure everything is all washed out. Then, he puts a couple drops that make your vision look murky, and then two more that clear it up.

 

After that, he puts a contact lens, or some kind of cloth soaked in medicine that will help with healing later, so you don't scar up. After that, he puts the bandage contact lense in, and you're done with that side.

 

Switch to the other side and repeat.

 

 

Bam. Done. Take a percoset when you get back to the waiting room and then go home. Boom baby. You can already see ten times clearer, and you're on your way to having 20/20 vision.

oOOH that sounds cool! Technology is amazing... ..I'd still be freaked out, but heh, sounds like it worked really well :D Woohoo!

Oh yes, I was freaked out. LOL

 

Well, it is pretty amazing. Vision goes in and out on clarity, which is normal and expected.

Though, my left eye is bothering me more than my right. I have to go back to doc's tomorrow morning, anyways, so I will ask them.

Probably just reacting more to it, as Kate said.

I can't say it enough, but I'm glad it went well, love. I hate that you got to be here to take care of me during/right after my surgery, but I couldn't come out there now. :/

 

Less than 9 days and I'll be there, though!

I know.

 

Stupid Army. Not letting us be together. Now I have to put my own eye drops in, and I don't get to haz nuzzles.

You were such a brave young man!

 

LOLLIPOP!!!!

 

*noms*

 

Yay.

 

 

 

Also....wtf Percoset. Weird dreams.

Perhaps it's because you're taking twice as much as I did?

 

*pinches Ed's cheek*

 

Such a wittle itty bitty baby with the pain.

They give us the pain pills for a reason!

 

And yes, me no likey pain. If they give me pain pills, damn straight I will take them.

 

 

Also, left contact fell out last night. Ow.

Going back to today to get another replacement, because I used the one they gave me.

It's a very good thing you'll never be required to give birth.

It's a very good thing you'll never be required to give birth.

 

I still maintain that if men were the ones to give birth, the human race would die out.

Ayup!