Jumping off point

So I had lasik yesterday and I've gotten a lot of people wondering how it went. So here's a summary.

The procedure itself is not painful, but it isn't exactly fun. I turned down the Valium because that stuff makes me feel pretty weird, so the procedure was probably a little more intense for me than for most people who are fine with Valium. I mean they are cutting your eye open. I equate it in level of fun to having a crown done at a dentist. It took 15 minutes total. The laser part itself was 30 seconds each eye to cut the flap, and another 30 seconds each eye to form the cornea. But you have clamps and probes and stuff on your eyes for most of the 15 minutes and no amount of numbing drops or Valium is going to take away the psychological weirdness of that.

Right after the operation my eyes hurt. Not too bad, like a mild burning, I smiled for the picture 30 seconds after. They were also crazy sensitive to light. For the drive home I had to close my eyes and cover them with my hands to keep the sun out. Sunglasses are not enough. The pain lasted about an hour. After that the pain was gone.

3 hours after the operation I was walking around without any pain (maybe a little minor irritation) and checking my email. Everything was still a bit hazy and there was a glow around lights and lcd screens. But I could read a clock from across the room without any glasses or contacts.

That night I was watching tv and seeing pretty well. Still some light haze and glow around lights.

This morning I drove myself to my post op. Still a little haze and glow around lights, but pretty minor now, less than 24 hours after surgery. My vision tested at 20/25. So now it's a waiting game to see how quickly the slight haze & glowing clear up as my eye heals. The odds are both will go away completely and my vision will end up better than 20/20. My eyes are a little bloodshot as well, but that should go away in the next 3 weeks by Christmas. So I'm on track with no complications. In a month the final verdict will be in, but the expectation of both me and my doctor are that it was a success and everything will be great.