Friday, August 7, 2009

Chemical soup: LASIK edition - 2/22/09

Before the surgery, I couldn't wear glasses for a month!! Ugh, there are definitely downsides to going with the most conservative surgeon.

Also, there were:

- drops to irritate my eyes so they'd produce more tears: effect, I was constantly "crying" (bonus: I can always complain that you are makin' me cry!)


- ointment to...tighten? the surface of my eyeballs, to prepare it for THE LASERS

- drops to lubricate my eyes and prevent dry patches

- steroid drops to...plump up my eyeballs? no clue what they did

- antibiotic drops

- healing-promoting drops

- still more drops for lubrication

The best part was, for the first few days, I had to use several of them every hour. I set my phone alarm and was seriously startled by how often that darn thing rang. It was like feeding a demanding baby (keeping in mind, to my great dismay, that a baby takes considerably longer to feed than putting in a few eye drops) or a mean gigapet. An eyeopening (har har) experience.

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