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I had ICL surgery yesterday. It’s like LASIK but for people with stronger prescriptions. So I’m now the proud owner of two implanted contact lenses, and I’m already typing this without the extreme glasses I used for the past 2+ decades. It’s amazing what the body can withstand.
The only sedation for the first eye was 2mg Xanax, so I remember it reasonably well. There were three bright lights shining in, backlighting a series of uncanny inserting sensations. Bizarre, but tolerable. For the second, they added some IV sedation, so my memories didn’t really form. I assume it was more of the same. I was out and recovering in less than an hour.
There was one unfortunate snag. The gel used during the surgery is hard to remove, and some remained in my left eye. This risks blocking drainage ducts, which it did, causing high pressure and crippling pain…starting hours after the surgery. I’d come home and napped as the drugs wore off, and when the pain kicked in I almost immediately deposited my entire lunch on the floor next to the toilet. I have only felt a head pain like this when I had a migraine that temporarily removed my ability to speak English. Maybe the sinus surgery would compare, but that came with a lot more in the way of drugs.
Anyway, after some alarmed phone calls, I was shuttled back to the clinic, vomiting all the way. This is a known issue, and they were prepared with anti-dilatory drops to, uh, apparently dilate the duct. Eyes are strange. By eight or nine I was pain-free, stomach-free, and changing clothes to get in bed. I’m told I even brushed my teeth.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be writing this. They say dream journals improve your recall of the events, and I don’t need to remember any more of this nightmarish carousel. Still, I think it was worth it. I can see like the rest of you regular humans, now, only a day after some guy rummaged around in my head.
God bless my girlfriend for handling me, as they say, at my worst.
That sounds hellish. As my own eyes have deteriorated over the years I've considered some type of surgery, but always just fall back on eyeglasses and a new prescription. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to see (and hear, and... other things) with the same clarity as when I was a boy. The first time I ever put on glasses (my girlfriend-at-the-time's sister's, as the 3 of us sat in a movie theater) I was dumbfounded how clear the screen was and I had just forgotten over years of gradual weakening eyesight.
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