Corrective Eye Surgery

I have to wear goggles to sleep in for a week!













My eyes were pretty swollen that first day...










Peas were the best thing to use for keeping my eyes nice and cool!

I have had glasses since first grade. I remember feeling pretty humiliated when my teacher asked me to read something off of the big chart paper when I was sitting at the kidney table and I couldn't read it. I was only about 7 feet away. This was the event that cause me to get the glasses and from that point on I became known as "four eyes" by many of my peers. I did grow into contacts in the 8th grade, which really helped to keep the name calling to a minimum. Contacts were also nice when it came to running cross country races in the rain among other things. However, I still had the plague of frantically feeling for my glasses in the morning in order to see what the time on my alarm clock, or the plague of getting an eyelash on my contact and having no saline solution to rinse it with.
While it may be an expensive procedure, I decided to bite the bullet and get eye surgery. The procedure I had done is called PRK. It is safe and better procedure than lasik supposedly, but it isn't done as often due to the long and uncomfortable (painful) recovery. The worse part of it is over for me, but here are a few pictures from the 3 days following surgery. I pretty much kept my eyes shut for the whole of three days, alternating between 4 different kinds of eye drops, loritab (bring it on) and putting ice packs on my eye balls. It was a pretty crazy time, but life is starting to come into focus and the pain is starting to subside. All in all, very worth it!