Right after surgery

They slapped the sweet sunglasses on me and led me out to the lobby. At this point, everything was still pretty hazy, but I definitely noticed clearer vision in short distances. I recognized Becky and tapped her on the shoulder to let her know that I was done. Like I said, it wasn't longer than 5 minutes 'til we were out the door and into the car. Right about this time, I can start to feel the valium take effect, 'cuz I was getting really groggy. It was easy to keep my eyes closed.

I think Becky was talking to me on the drive back, but I was so out of it. During the drive home is when the stinging started. It felt like I had gotten soap in my eyes, but instead of the tears washing the sting away it felt like they made it worse. My guess is that the watering mixed with the iodine and just added to the burning sensation. It wasn't excruciating or anything, but I won't lie, it was on the painful side. Every time I tried to crack open one of my eyes, water just streamed down my face.

The drive home seemed pretty quick (for 40 minutes). We got home around 3:30. At this point, I had a hard time opening my eyes, so I basically just had Becky lead me straight to the bedroom so that I could sleep. I was all ready to just crash, but out of the blue, something happened that I did not expect. My nose suddenly got congested. Not just a little, but to the point as it does during a really bad cold. The problem was that because of the valium, I was crazy, tired...but because I could barely breathe, I couldn't get to sleep. I basically sat up, still with the burning in my eyes, my new found congestion, and my continued grogginess. It was pretty uncomfortable. I think I was in and out for about 1-2 hours until the congestion finally stopped and finally fell asleep. I woke up around 6:30. The stinging had stopped, and I looked at my alarm clock by my bed to see if I could read it. To my surprise, I was able to read it without squinting, albeit a little blurry (probably more due to me just waking up). It felt like I had just woke up with my contacts in.

I made my way out of the room and while still a biz hazy (kind of a dreamlike state) I could see things relatively clearly. I could see things extremely clear within 10 feet in front of me...and then it just started to get a little blurry further off. It was much better than my vision without glasses, but still nowhere near my vision with glasses on. I stayed up for a few minutes. I grabbed a quick drink, put the prescription drops in each eye, had becky type out my facebook status to let everyone know I was still alive, and then went right back to bed. Immediately, I was out like a light again.

I woke up around 8:50. Vision again was much clearer than before. The haze was pretty much gone. I could see clearly...it still wasn't as good as when I had my glasses, but again, better than before. The only thing I noticed was a bit of a halo around light. It wasn't too distracting. I got up and ate some food (thanks for becky), put more drops in my eyes (doc said every two hours the first day)...and went right back to bed around 9:30. Before the surgery, I thought the hardest part was to get myself to sleep. I think my body was so tired for the surgery that sleeping was the easiest thing.