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| From what I've heard, it seems patients are OK to drive home after
surgery but few actually do so. I'm going tomorrow and I leaning towards
driving myself. Any opinions?
In article <cstnul$aba$1@reader2.panix.com>, torin@panix.com says...
> Well, I got the surgery yesterday. Got there about 11:20 as scheduled.
> Spent the next 3 hours going from one test to the next. Btw, they used a
> different pupilometer there. Shields around the eyes, and checked under 3
> different lighting conditions. The darkest had: Left eye 5.14mm, Right
> eye 5.45mm.
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> Anyway, I finally got into surgery about 3:30pm. The doctor was very good
> about talking through the surgery and explaining what was going to happen
> before it did. (Also doing the reserach and knowing exactly what was
> going on at each step did help with the anxiety quit a bit.) No pain.
> The microkeratome was noiser than I expected. Had no problem keeping my
> eye fixed on the tracking LED. It was actually interesting to see the
> changes in my fuzzy vision as the laser was working. Flaps seemed to go
> back on nice. As they sat me up, I could see a dry erase board with my
> name on it across the room. Nice touch. Anyway, I was wheeled back to
> the recovery room. They had a snack and drink waiting. They gave me
> another rundown of the post-operative instructions and then wheeled me to
> another exam room to take a look at my eyes. Examiner was satisfied with
> how it looks and sent me home. On the way home the numming drops started
> wearing off and my eyes started to hurt a fair amount. Finally got to the
> pharmacy and got the darvocet. Home was only a block away, so I waited
> until I got home and then took the pill and went to bed. Managed sleep
> about 12 hours (well about 5 hour into it I woke up because my eyes were
> still hurting and took a second darvocet).
>
> Got up this morning, and my eyes didn't hurt. I can see clearly with
> nothing weird visually, other than a sense that straight lines at the edge
> of my vision are bending out. That I figure is my mind getting use to the
> fact that I no longer have glasses curving straight lines at the edge of
> my vision anymore.
>
> I've started taking the anti-inflamitory drops, the antibiotic drops and
> the artifical tears as well.
>
> Very positive experience for me.
> Todd
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