Eye Surgery Day 1 over
August 2, 2007
Here is a picture of me at home following the first day of the procedure. I can honestly say I didn’t feel a thing. I was put under, and it was done, and then I was out of there. I remember seeing some scrube nurses, but little else. I wear a paxtch until 12:30, and then remove it, putting medicated drops in the eye. I keep the plastic protective bubble over it until tomorrow morning when I go back for day 2 of the surgery–my left eye. Harmless is the only thing I can think to say. There were four other patients there with me, each having the same procedure. I was the youngest. I had no pain or discomort whatsoever. I don’t even remember the doctor’s presence, though I’m told he was there and talked to my husband. More updates later.
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August 2nd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Hoping all goes well with both eyes and vision thereafter.
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Lessons learned after day 1:
Pull the hair back so that it is NOT taped wiith padding and patch. That, my friends, was the worst part of the whole thing. Removing the tape and losing the 30-40 strands of hair hurt worse than anything, and literally broguht tears to my ears..
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
The first thing you did after you could pull the patch off was to get on the computer. You’re awesome!
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I am glad that you had such a good experience. Very nice to be put under for the procedure.
August 2nd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Cathy,
Thanks for posting to my blog. I am adding you to my RSS feeds. I just could not get the free version of edublogs to do what I wanted. I could not get to the code and that frustrated me. I hope you get well with your eye procedure. I hope you will check me out at my new location.
Rick Weinberg
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Glad to know all went well! Looking forward to hearing about the success with the other eye.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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