Well it is over! On Friday at 16:15 I went in for my Laser surgery on my eyes, and by 16:30 I was sitting in the waiting room with a cup of coffee waiting for my mate to pick me up. With no pain and no discomfort noticeable at all!!
Optical Express have looked after me really well, if you want to check them out, click on the link here Optical Express remember they are worldwide!
So how about the operation itself, well here we go with all the details;
I was called in by the surgern, and he told me his name before describing the procedure, he then explained and demonstrated certain noises I would be hearing. On then to the 'Op' chair. A bit like a dentists chair but your lying down. I then had to look at a blinking red light whilst one eye was covered and the other (the one to be operated on) had anaesthetic drops put in. The surgen then clamped open my eye with a couple of weights (well that is all they felt like, and it was really, really not in the slightest bit uncomfortable. He then said I will feel slight pressure on the eye (a bit like pushing your thumb against your eyelid), and I wont see anything for a few seconds. Which I didn't! and this bit was the most uncomfortable of all - on a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 1/2 seriously hardly uncomfortable at all.
Next up he put in like a cone device, and then a 'frosted window', all of which I could see (It's a bit like having a glass plate in front of your eyes and someone wiping things on the glass - totally weird!) . Next up the clicking of the laser, and in my opinion the worst bit, no there was no pain, it was just this smell of burning.
And after a quick wipe the job was done, and onto the next eye. The whole procedure took less than 5 minutes per eye, it was probably closer to 3. I then went back into the waiting room, and despite a bit of blurryness could see LOVELY!
When my mate picked me up half an hour later I was able to read number plates on cars at a greater distance than him, also the blurryness had gone. Of course prior to that I had been given my eye drops and the coolest pair of goggles (NOT!!!!!) to wear at night to protect the eyes. For the goggles think 'Charlie and the Choclate factory" Mike TV room. Honest!
And so today, the day after. Well I drove myself the 40 miles to the clinic to have the eyes checked for infection and to check the sight. No infections problems or anything else, and the best bit, the optition wanted me to read a certain line, but I could read two line below. She then told me the line she wanted me to read was for 20 - 20 vision. So happily my eyes are now better than 20 - 20 GET IN THERE!!!!!
OK I will update again when I have had about a week to recover, cheers for now, oh how does that song go......
..... Bom Bapa Bommm Bapa I can see clearly now the rain has gone, I can see all obstacles in my way, gone are the dark clouds that had me down, it's gonna be a bright, bright, bright sunshiny daaayyyyy!
