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I Can See Clearly Now...

...the Lasik's done. Lisa had her lasik procedure done today. She's not going to be happy about the photo, but soon she'll be able to see it without contacts or glasses for the first time in a long time. That's her doctor in the pic with her (I hear Brian running out the door in Woodland to go schedule an appointment...). The procedure itself only took about 10-minutes. I got to sit in a viewing room to watch and listen. The doctor and nurses were great. They talked Lisa through the whole procedure. They had a TV that showed the magnified picture of the eye as they cut the lense, folded it back, performed the laser procedure (there's that word again...), and put the lense flap back into place. It was pretty interesting.

Now's the healing time. Lisa has to use a combination of wetting drops, antibiotic drops, and pain drops for a few days. She also has to wear protective lenses taped to her face while she sleeps and probably some goggles while around the babies (she couldn't be around the babies tonight except right before bed - they don't want to risk anything happening to her eyes). We also have to pick up some 100% UV protection sunglasses that she has to wear for at least 6 months. We could have picked up a $270 pair of Georgio Armani sunglasses at the doctor's office but...we think a $30 pair of Bolle's will do just fine......even a $100 pair of Oakleys or Ray Bans...but $270 for sunglasses? She can't exercise for at least 3 days. Since Lisa works up quite a sweat running on the treadmill, they recommend that she wait a little while longer. Knowing her...she's going to be on there with a sweatband on doing a fast walk on Tuesday and running by Friday. Oh, and no eye makeup for awhile... We'll go to the post-op tomorrow morning.

I can't wait until tomorrow and the next few days to see how well she can see.

posted by Sam @ 7:55 PM