[Sonnet]

Hi Star, I've been thinking of you these past few day, and I hope your recovery is going well.

[Lekker]

Hi Star!

I hope your eye surgery went well!

Julie

[Leenie]

Hey Woman!!

Hope your okay.

[StarPrincess]

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack! And I can SEE!!!! OMG this is the most amazing thing ever!

The surgery went really well. I had the dubious honor of being the most difficult (read: worst eyes to correct) surgery of the day. They were right about lasik - easy and pretty painless. And they were right about the PRK. It hurt like a *****! My left eye was almost swollen shut and I just cried and cried the first time DH had to give me eye drops. 3 codine pills later, I still hurt, but it was managable.

I spent Friday and Saturday pretty much asleep (with some lovely protective goggles on). And then yesterday I felt great! As of my 'day after' appointment, my vision was already up to 20/30 and should continue to improve. It's amazing since my vision was something like 20/2000!

So today I go back to have my "band-aid" contact removed from my left eye and then it should be smooth sailing. I'm so happy I don' even care that I have to run around with no eye makeup for the next 2 weeks. I CAN SEE!!!!

[jane8760]

Yeah!!!! glad to hear from you and that eveything went well. Must be so weird to see all of a sudden. I can't even imagine.

[Shimma]

YEAH STAR! I'm glad you're doing well. Sorry it hurt so much though!

[Leenie]

Fantastic !!!!!

[lady_adnerb]

Oh man! I'm SOOO jealous! Well, sorry you were in pain but jealous cuz you're glass-less. I threw my contacts in yesterday and it was like OMG this is SO cool. I should do it more often

[StarPrincess]

It's funny. I keep waking up and thinking "Oh crap! I forgot to take my contacts out!"

I really am loving it! The pain was totally worth it. This is a tie with the breast reduction for the title of Best Thing I Could Possibly Do For Myself.

Soooooooooo happy!

[lady_adnerb]

Maybe some year I'll get to do that. But right now it's not an option. Eventually it might have to be otherwise my glasses will be tons thick

[Kim in NJ]

Great News Star.....
So glad everything went well....

[jdoggmartin]

Yay, Star!! So glad to hear everything went well and you can see!!

[bzyathome]

How cool! I'm like Brenda, just alittle jealous that the glasses are gone. I want to have lasiks done but would still need reading glasses. I can't get used to the one contact or just having one eye done so I wouldn't need them. My arms just aren't long enough...lol

[lady_adnerb]

Exactly! I would need glasses even if I had it done. I'd be farther ahead to stick the contacts in (but I can only imagine what it'd be like NOT to have to). The lady optometrist tried talking me into 2 different prescriptions for each eye. You know. The one eye would see near and the other far away? OMG the thought made me have a headache! Told her nope.

[StarPrincess]

Actually, I work with a lady who had the same problem. She had one eye done for distance and one eye done for up close. She said it took a little while to get used to, but she totally loves it now.