Treatment Day

OK, so after nearly a week of not sleeping properly, THE DAY finally rolled round. Apologies in advance to anyone reading this who knows about laser surgery or has had it done. I'm sure much of what I'm about to say is very similar to the experiences of the majority of people getting zapped. However, I did promise one young lady in particular a blow by blow account in order to help her decide whether she should go for it. So here it goes ...

Before we going any further though, may I just reassure you that I'm writing this today, on day 4, without the aid of glasses or contact lenses. I am not dictating this - although quite who I'd be dictating it to is anybody's guess since hubby is in work but felt it just required clarification ;)

Having established that this story has a happy ending (personally, I like to know this in advance. If I need tissues, I do prefer to be warned) here's how the day unfolded.

You may have already seen how stupidly early I sent a text update to Twitter on Friday morning. By half five I gave up and got up because I was bored of lying in bed willing myself to sleep. What you might not know is that thanks to the lack of sleep and general excitement of last week, I'm now sitting here sporting two rather uncomfortable mouth ulcers. It seems my body failed to appreciate the difference between stress and excitement and thought I was under attack ;)

Eek ... my battery is about to die and I'm working tomorrow. I should really get to bed. Apologies for the delay (again!) but I'll have to love you and leave you and finish this tomorrow. I was enjoying myself so much, I totally lost track of the time and forgot that I have to be in school by 8am, hence the sudden apologetic rush.

Catch you tomorrow,
x

69 hours to go!

Earlier on I realised that with just three days to go, that's just 72 hours. I'm getting zapped at around 4pm so that's now cut it down to 69 hours and counting.

Not only is my husband having to put up with my annoyingly excited self, he's now getting texts from his mates telling him how annoyingly excited I am. I think I've been pretty good today though, only grinned inanely a couple of times!

I just still can't quite believe it. I've been wearing specs since I was 10. In fact seeing as I was plump too, I did well to survive school at all really!

The list of 'things I'm looking forward to' is ever expanding. This will sound a bit middle aged but there was the most lush sunrise this morning but because I refuse to put my glasses on until I've had at least one cup of tea it was, as ever, a blurry sunrise!

And this afternoon we (husband excluding, he was off to work poor lamb) all had a mess around on the trampoline. It was fab but I had to choose between looking at my children through a blur or ending the day with a spectacle squashed face!

I'm wondering if I might even get a little better at reversing after Friday. It's doubtful but one can live in hope!

Change of plan ...

OK, I've decided to add the RSS feed of this blog to my Facebook account because I can't see much point in talking to myself!

FB friends, if you're reading this, feel free to ignore my ramblings. (Many of my closest friends will be well practiced at this already!)

Laser treatment intro

About 10 years ago, Sue and Helen (my step-mother-in-law and sister-in-law in case anyone other than me ever reads this!) went for a free consultation in Bristol. At the time, that was the closest clinic for us here in West Wales. Helen got the thumbs up but decided she couldn't justify the cost (£5K at the time) whilst Sue got a thumbs down.

Fast forward 9 years, technology has improved, costs have come down and now Sue and Helen (and now also my mother-in-law, Alyson) have all been zapped.

At the time of their first consult, I got some info about it as I've been wearing specs since I was 10 but I just couldn't afford it and so never really gave it any serious thought.

Then after Helen and Alyson's success 6 months ago, I started thinking about it a lot more seriously. My prescription has been stable at around -2 in the right eye and -1.5 in the left for years now but money was still a problem. Hubby said that I could probably have it done one day but ...

Fast forward 6 months and following an evening with Helen and Kev and I'm not only going for a free consultation on Thursday, but my treatment is all booked for the week after!

More about the consultation to come ...

Two years later ...

Well would you look at that ... I totally forgot that I even started this blog and here we are two years down the line and Blogger found it for me. What a clever little piece of technology.

Update ... only a quick one because I'm the only one reading this and I already know what I've been doing for the last 2 years!

Writing course - incomplete - on hold - awaiting completion of assignment 2.

Baby #3 - born, little boy, Michael. Nearly 2!

So that's the update. Don't hold your breath but I hope to be back soon!

El x