I'm home.
It's done.
I woke up at 4:33 just so I could have a small cup of very strong black tea.
They said that was ok.
I refused to face this without tea.
Nope.
The walk over was peaceful.
I got many drops and will probably still be dilated tomorrow for my post-op.
They also gave me a valium, which they give to everyone who goes under the laser, but honestly I barely felt anything, which was a bummer. They also tried to give me Tylenol which I refused, because acetaminophen makes me feel like absolute garbage and I can't take it. (Also it doesn't work anyhow.)
I was pretty scared and they kept worrying about my blood pressure, which was very high and plummeted back to normal immediately afterwards. (I TOLD them I don't have bp issues.)
I really, REALLY hate the laser.
Last time I hated it and I hated it again today.
At least it doesn't take very long.
It's horrible.
First the doctor literally draws on your eyeball.
(Its blue)
Then they put a plastic thing in your eye to hold your lids open and it hurts.
Then they suction the laser over you, there are bright lights and those freaky black shapes come out and move around while it is lasering.
Then it's done, that's the worst part, and you go into the OR.
They confirm all your information.
I didn't feel the paralysis shot but they still told me when it was over.
They also did what they call a dual-blade goniotomy or something, it's to control the pressure spike that happens after surgery.
This time around I feel like I was more awake than last time. (Last time was GREAT!)
They were talking to me during the surgery and I had to move a few times.
It wasn't as blissy as before. But it also wasn't bad.
This part doesn't hurt and it's fine.
It only took maybe 15-20 minutes but I could have stayed in surgery for a while in that state, it's fine,
That laser tho- they ought to sedate people for that part, I guess they can't because it is in a different room. Or give them MORE VALIUM.
The doctor said everything went well, but he left the patch on until tomorrow, so I don't have to do any drops today.
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2 of my anxiety dreams from last week (kind of) came true.
In one, which I don't think I posted here, I had a baby.
I wasn't pregnant and I didn't give birth, I suddenly had a baby which was very much mine and I was figuring out how to place it with someone who wanted a baby because I DID NOT WANT A BABY what a nightmare.
They wanted to do a pregnancy test, said it was mandatory.
I told them it wasn't happening, I had zero fluids in me, no peeing in a cup was going to happen.
Nope.
If they had told me when I checked in, yeah.
I also insisted it was physically impossible for me to be pregnant, thank goodness.
Since there really was nothing they could do about it, they just believed me and went ahead.
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And then I had that dream that my friend couldn't pick me up.....
And as it turns out she had some kind-of emergency stuff going on with her daughter this morning and she lost track of time and an hour after my pickup time we finally got in touch with her.
She apologized profusely and was very sorry, but it's all ok and I got home a little after 11.
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MY HEAD IS NUMB.
Like literally NUMB on the whole right side from above my eye all the way to the top of my head!!
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I sent a pic of my cool spiky eye guard that Kedrin suggested I get, and Daya said I should add a hoodie to complete the look.
The spikes do look a lot better than.... this........
Daya weighed in....
So if you see a weird-looking hoodie-spike-eye person on the train tomorrow, it's just me going to a post-op. It's weirdly comfortable.
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