LASIK Surgery 2

I had the eye surgery, which is the good news. The bad news is, my vision is blurry. They can probably fix this with another pass under the laser, but in the mean time I'm kind of SOL for getting much done. I can type, but it's a pain in the ass to look at the screen because the letters just aren't clear enough. Reading is massively annoying. Watching TV is bothersome because the image isn't quite right.

I have my follow-up eye appointment today; I will get a lens prescription and get a pair of glasses at a one-hour place.

Last night, Darin came into the bedroom at around 9 and woke me up so I could take off the plastic shields that I had over my eyes for protection. (If you accidentally touch your eyes after your surgery, you are really, really sorry.) He started peeling off the tape that held the shields on and it felt like my skin was being ripped off my face. The ripping combined with my seeing that my vision wasn't anywhere near 20/20 had me crying within seconds.

Don't get me wrong -- my vision is pretty amazing right now. Here's how to pretend you're Diane pre-op: hold your hand in front of your face about 2 to 3 inches from your nose. That's as far as I could see. Right now I can, with some patience, read the titles of books that are on a bookshelf about 10 feet away. I just don't want to, because my vision is slightly blurry. It's better vision, not great vision.

After the face-ripping experience (Darin felt so bad that I started crying -- it's not your fault, honey, really!) I went upstairs and watched the second half of Millenium (the return of Jose Chung! more importantly, the return of Darin Morgan!) without much joy, because the screen was slightly fuzzy. Then I started to watch Homicide, said to hell with it, and went back to bed.

I need the new lens prescription, fast.

By the way, in case anyone out there is thinking about doing LASIK, despite the problems I'm having, I'd still recommend it. You have to keep your eyes closed for 8 hours and there isn't much pain. Considering they're operating on your eyes, that's pretty damn miraculous. Greg went back to work the next day; and so did Darin.

The problems I'm having are most likely due to the fact that my prescription is -- was -- fairly bad: -12 diopters, with astigmatism. Right now I probably need correction for -1 or -2 diopters. I was told before I even went in they'd probably have to do the procedure twice; I was just hoping that they wouldn't have to.