The eye surgery went just fine. I'm alive, aren't I? That's the important part. And not blind any more. Though I am kind of blurry, still, but that will go away in a few days, hopefully. My vision was really good right after the whole thing; I walked out and could read the headlines on a newspaper in the waiting room. It's blurrier right now, which is sort of making me freak out a little... but I did get something in my eye while taking a shower earlier today, and it was very angry with me, and that might have something to do with it.

The whole surgery was sort of an odd experience. First, a nurse took my blood pressure and temperature, and then she gave me a nice little pre-op valium to relax me. And boy, did it ever. I was talking to Chelsea's mom after taking it (she took me to the surgery) and started to notice a strange, heavy feeling in all my appendages and eyelids and then realized that I was not at all worried about the whole surgery thing! It was kind of nice, in a this-is-a-drug-induced-state-
and-completely-unnatural-but-I'll-enjoy-it-just-the-same kind of way. Now I know why it was once such a popular drug. Everything that happened after the taking of the magic pill was kind of a blur.

They took me away and made me put on a surgical hat thing and lie down, where my whole being wanted to stay for eternity and take what promised to be a most wonderful nap, but instead my doctor stuck this instrument in my eye to make it stay open and taped the other one shut, completely cutting off the possibility of said nap. He then proceeded to make my eye completely numb. And squirted water in it that ran down my face and into my ear. I didn't really care though... again, with the valium.

Then I had to stare up at this blazing circle with a red light in the middle for sometime while the doctor and his nurses did more things to my eye, things including but not limited to: the peeling back of the topmost layer of my cornea, which I could see happening, because my eye was wide open. So, so fun. Then the circle with the red light emitted an even brighter, white light for about 30 seconds (therein lies the laser part), doc put my epithelium back in place (aforementioned topmost layer of cornea), put a soft contact lens on top of that, and I was free to go! Whee! Seriously. No pain or anything.

In the car on the way home, I could not keep my eyes open, thanks to the valium. Once I got home around 4 pm, I crawled into bed and took a long-awaited 3 and a half hour valium-induced nap, which everyone from the nurses to my doctor to the receptionist to my mom suggested and condoned. "Go home! Take a nap! You'll wake up feeling much better!" And I DID.

On that note, I need to go to sleep. I'm getting delirious.