Awesome Sauce!!!!

 Howdy Ho my friends!  I am back!

Thank you all for your many thoughts and prayers.  ALL is GREAT!!!!!

I cannot begin to tell you how incredibly blessed I feel.  My distance vision is just awesome sauce!! Pretty darn near perfect vision.  My close up still needs help (readers) and that is just fine with me.  The world sure is beautiful!!!

You all and everyone I know got me through this just fine.  I actually got some sleep on Sunday night and Monday I was completely calm when I went to the clinic.  I got picked up at 6:45 AM, and was getting tests by 7:15. I went through a huge battery of tests and it was decided that my right eye would be first (it was worse).  I swear they put a gallon of various drops in my eye!!!  I then went to pre-op and more drops and then the IV (shot).  Well let us say this girl was in la-la land!  I could hear and could respond - but I could not have given a crap about what was going to happen!  I do not remember being wheeled into the operating room. I remember the doc asking what kind of music I like, then asking if I liked Credence Clearwater, and he started singing.  I saw lots of pretty lights!  Next I know I am sitting in the post op room.  Talk about a walk back into the 70's!!!!!!!  LOL!!  They gave me some juice, and I was done.  They said that surgery took 10 minutes - couldn't prove it by me.

Sitting there I looked up and was reading a sign across the room!!  I covered the eye they did and could not see it at all with the bad eye.  I was seeing immediately!!!!!!!  Was home by 1:00 PM.

Day 2 - left eye.  I am ready to go.  Picked up at 6:15 AM.  Drops, drops and more drops.  Different surgeon.  I remember being wheeled through doors - I hear talking and I see different kinds of lights today.  I am back in the post-op room in a flash.  Surgery today is7 minutes!  Drank juice - saw everything around me.  Home by 9:00 AM.

I saw nothing - felt nothing - and remember little.  Awesome.

Not one moment of pain at all.

I ate and slept most of the first 2 days.  TV looks amazing!!!!!!!!!

I checked out great on Wednesday.  Most restrictions lifted.  Just no extreme exertion, no real heavy lifting, no eye make-up (woop) and no water in my eyes for a week.  Wearing eye shield (clear) when sleeping.  I do drops 4X a day.  

I can drive.  I have NEVER in my life driven without glasses!!!!!!  Amazing.

I wake up and can see the clock on the opposite wall.  I can't remember the last time I could wake up and not fumble for glasses to see (probably as a child).

The world is gorgeous.  I had NO idea how badly I really was seeing.  The fog, literally, has been lifted.  I cannot remember ever seeing this crisp and clear - at least for years and years.  Corrective glasses could never compare to this.  I just keep being amazed.  What a lovely time of the year to have this done - fall colors everywhere!  My friend that took me for my check-up yesterday - said if he didn't know better, he would think I was higher than a kite - I would not shut-up!!  I told I was high - on seeing this big and beautiful world.

Along with that note - my house!!!  Oh my.  I thought it was really clean - NOT!  I can see so much dust and cobwebs, and spots on things in the kitchen and on and on!!!!!!!  I will being doing a wall at a time - top to bottom - and scrubbing everything.  My house will be cleaner than I am sure it has been in ages.

The saying - you don't know what you don't know - is so true.  I thought I was seeing decent.  NOPE.  What a huge wake-up.  I am just amazed.  I had no idea it could be soooooo great!

So now I will be one of those saying - DO IT - it is a breeze and will CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

Funny how a little over a week, our emotions and life can change so much.  I have been so sad and lonely with my Coogy gone (still am) - to joyous and awestruck with being given a new view of the world.

Again, thank you all for your encouragement, love, prayers and thoughts.  IT HELPED so much!

Life is beautiful and glorious.  God is good every day.

I have been given a wonderful gift.  This has been an experience of a lifetime.  AWESOME SAUCE!!!!!

I will be back to normal posting on Sunday!

Have a blessed day!