Got my eye op today! Hooray!
Honestly, the waiting around was the worst part. I never like waiting uncertainly for things. Give me a time when they will happen and I will wait most merrily.
But when I am just waiting for something and I don’t know when it is going to happen, boredom and tension combine to keep me low-level pissed off.
Oh well. The procedure itself was weird and at times uncomfortable but not painful or scary. They had the Seventies hits still playing from the previous patient and I was totally down with that.
CCR, The Band, Murray McLachlan, and so on. All good stuff that I love. The only problem was that Doctor Faezi had to tell me to stop singing along.
Apparently that made my eye wiggle. Tsk tsk. So I kept my singalong going inside my head instead. Spoilsport.
Seriously, though, the music helped immensely. It gave my mind someplace to go to escape thinking about what exactly was happening to my eyeball at that very moment. That, and the Ativan they gave me. allowed me to stay mellow throughout the whole thing and treat the whole thing as a total trip, dude.
And there were moments that hurt a little and moments that stung a little and a lot of moments that were distinctly odd, like when he squirted the anesthetic gel onto my eye and left it there a while.
So having that stuff sitting there sticky and cold was pretty weird.
The worst part of the procedure was the occasional rinsing with water. Always with plenty of warning, but still, that water was cold and my eye didn’t like that.
Well it’s all over now. Now I just have to keep up with the eye drops for a while and wear this clear plastic eye shield when I sleep for the next four days.
Right now, the eye in question is a bit blurry, which is normal. The area is a bit swollen from all the poking around in it and things will un-blur when the swelling goes down.
Given that before now, looking through my left eye was like looking through a very dirty window pane, I will take it.
The eye shield thing is cool. Sort of a big clear plastic dome over my eye roughly the shape of one lens of a pair of huge Seventies sunglasses.
Technically, I could take it off now. I only need it for when I am sleeping.
Not sure why. I mean, when I sleep, my eyes are closed and hence quite safe. Perhaps it’s too keep me from rubbing my eyes in my sleep.
Like a Cone of Shame for humans, Fair enough.
Been getting into Spiritfarer. It is…not what I expected.
I thought I would be running the afterlife in a management type game but instead I am this pansexual person and their personal pet platforming around a big ship and sailing it here and there to either gather supplies or advance a very slow moving plot.
That said, it has oodles and oodles charm and a very cute and cuddly sensibility, so I will continue to do what is asked of me in it till I get to the game itself.
Erf. More sleepiness. Time to go back to Napland.
Shields up! Arm the photon torpedoes and full speed ahead!
More after the break.
The seas are mighty choppy tonight, sir!
Getting dinner was fun.
Because as it turns out, I am quite dizzy right now. It truly is like being aboard a ship navigating some pretty rough seas.
Reminds me of being on the ferry between PEI and Nova Scotia in the early winter. It was slippy out, and mighty whuffy, and us poor passengers had to cling to something in order not to get tossed about.
Only back then, I was young and robust and resilient enough to view the whole thing as a great adventure. While others were sensibly staying in one place, I was exploring the ship and risking my neck just for the thrill of it.
I could be quite the thrill seeker back then.
But now, I just want the seas to settle. I was warned many times that the Ativan they gave me plus my usual unsteadiness might lead to a complex locomotion situation, and I listened as I moved very carefully from the eye center to the car, then the car to the apartment. So far so good.
But then I took a nap and forgot all about it, and let the familiar surroundings fool me into thinking things were back to normal.
Um no. Not yet. Ooops.
And speaking of naps, boy have I been sleepy. And it’s that kind of sleepiness that feels like someone turned up the gravity and you’re being sucked towards your bed, or at least lying down on the floor, by a black hole.
I think it’s because of a massive relief of eye strain,. My refurbished eyeball might not be fully operational yet, but it’s already seeing way way better than the previous version, and I think that eliminates a lot of the eye strain I was getting from the faulty parallax making my eyes work super hard to make a single picture of two very different inputs.
Whatever. The sleepiness has been irritatingly persistent but the sleep itself has been pretty good. I wake up dizzy and staggering about, but the sleep itself is pleasant and I have woken up in much worse states.
I will be glad when I finally catch up again, though. Sleepiness all the damned time is boring. I want to do things.
Important, productive things like playing video games all the damned time.
I have an appointment with Doctor Vaezi tomorrow. Due to logistical issues, I might be getting there and back on my own.
No big deal. I’ll take cabs. It’ll be like $10 each way, including tip. Big woop.
While I am there, I can cash some checks. Nice having my eye doctor be in the same building as my bank.
Well I guess that catches you all up.
Talk to you again soon! Because….
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.