I woke up at 5 am with stabbing and searing pain in my left eye. I started my drops at 4 AM and eventually I fell back to sleep for another three hours. I told the doctor about that and he’s not sure why because when he looked at my eyes at my post op appointment everything was looking great and he told me my vision was a blurry 20/20 in my right eye and 20/25 in my left eye. I could see really close print as well so that was good. The doctor told me that I was ahead of the curve and that my cornea layer had healed 50%. I went home and the rest of the day was agony. I was in so much pain. My eyes hurt so bad and my vision was getting worse and worse. I alternate between Tylenol and Advil, the rest of the day and took a ton of rewetting drops. I finally fell asleep but kept waking up every hour.

Pre-surgery contact prescription was:

OD (Right eye) -6.00, Cyl -1.25, Axis 20 OS (Left eye) -7.00, Cyl -1,75, Axis 160

The numbing drops didn’t seem to work. I seriously think I could feel the whole thing. They use a brush, almost like a toothbrush, to clean my cornea and then they took the top layer off. Next they did the laser. It wasn't painful but it smelled so bad! They washed my eyes with some drop solution, placed a non-scarring piece my eye for 30 seconds. My visions went white. They took that off and put on the bandage contact lens. When I sat up, I could see pretty good.

I went home and I was in excruciating pain even though they gave me more numbing drops. The Valium did not work at all. When I got home I took some NyQuil as the doctor recommended and tried to take a nap. I never could fall asleep. For the first four hours all I wanted to do was pull out my eyeballs.

Then Eric gave me a Mountain Dew and a Jimmy John’s sandwich and I tell you the truth when I say Mountain Dew is the elixir of life because all of a sudden my pain went away. I was amazed at how well I could see. Eric was watching TV and I occasionally opened my eyes and I could see fine print on the TV. I was really excited.

Reba and Finn are as cute as ever. They recently turned 5. Reba is super needy. Finn is becoming grumpy. They sleep together, clean each other all the time and eventually the cleaning become fight club. haha. 

Also I saw some pretty Tiger Lilies on our walk along the river. 

Storms came through this morning and our neighbor lost his tree. When we came home from work, the tree was cleaned up and he had the wood out on the curb for free. I snagged some firewood for our next fire.

 

We celebrated Eric's birthday at the Twins vs Boston Game. I upgraded our seats and we ended up sitting in front of the newly called up starting pitcher, Preston Ohl. There were three rows of family members behind us. They were very loud, cheering him on. But once he got pulled in the third inning they were quiet. But we got on TV a couple times.  Who know this would be the last time we would see most of the starting line up...

After the game I gave Eric his birthday presents. I got him a Doctor Who Build-a-bear. 

And a late birthday present for Eric was the Twins destroying the team and trade half the team away.  And below is my reaction to it. :(