Erm... actually both days (left & right eyes) the process was basically the same.
*WARNING: points 17 to 29 have graphic description!!!*
- I reported at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (henceforth read as TTSH because i'm lazy to type in full all the time) about 2pm.
- An optometrist did a bit of eye tests on me first to double confirm my eyesight for correction.
- After a bit of waiting (there were quite a number of ppl doing LASIK after all), i was finally called in to the operating theatre.
- I was nervous, somewhat unprepared and not sure of what to expect.
- The opthalmologist surgery technician(or whatever. blah! aka nurse! :D~) helped me put on a robe(i was still clothed in my own clothes k...).
- And then the NURSE(opthalmologist blah) asked me some routine questions.
- Do you have any perfume/cologne on you currently? (not supposed to)
- Is your handphone with you? (in case ppl called you halfway thru troublesome)
- Do you wish to have a blowjob while having the operation? (joking!)
- Then my left eyelid (over and under) was disinfected with iodine.
- Both eyes were subsequently dripped with anesthetic eyedrops. (the other eye to cooperate/coordinate properly)
- After waiting for the surgeon to test out the laser, I slipped out of my shoes into their slippers and proceeded to the op table. (they had a partition w/ door where i waited)
- I laid on the table. (yes literally i got laid by the nurse HAHAHA)
- The team adjusted my head to fit nicely into this mould for my head. Blanket on me. (yes it's cold in there!)
- My eye that's not gonna be operated on that day covered with a protector.
- My eyelid was taped up, and the bottom lid taped down.
- Surgeon instructed me to stare at the blinking red light above me with my eye. And then he used an eye retainer to keep my eye still. Technically it just keeps my eye in place and i can't blink.
- Next he makes an incision and peels off my cornea, making a flap upwards(i think) and the suction lifts it up. I experience a loss of vision momentarily aka blind, and regains it shortly after.
- Keep staring at the blinking red light! The surgeon washes my eye with cold water. *drown*
- I see a green laser aiming at my eye. Keep staring at the blinking red light! The operation going to commence soon! So exciting!
- The technician reads out "Operation commencing, 4 sections" (or something like that. erh i'm guessing, 4 quadrants of my eye?)
- The laser starts up *zap zap zap zap zap* (continuously for at least 20-30 secs)
- "Half done", said the technician (omg they gonna fry my eye! i can smell the chao tar smell!!!) *zap zap zap zap zap*...
- "Almost finishing", she said this time *zap zap zap zap zap*...
- "Finishing in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...", she concluded. "Completed." (Thank goodness finally...)
- Doc closes back my cornea flap and gently sayangs my eye with 2 swab thingies.
- Wash with cold water, sayang some more.
- He waits a while (either to let the cornea adhere itself back on or he's just tired XP)
- The eye retainer is removed (ahh... feels much better) and i close my eyes.
- Eyelid tapes removed, everything covering me removed, transparent eye protector in place on the operated eye.
- I sit up and get escorted back to the waiting area and put back on my shoes.
- Escorted to a sofa where i'm supposed to rest for 20-30mins, *waits*.
- (On Day 1) Nurse explains to me what the pouch they gave me is for. My specs is inside, a set of after-op care instructions, a bottle of anti-inflammation eye drop, a box of artificial tear eyedrops, and her contact number(sorry can't help being cornea... corny i mean. i'm joking).
- The doc comes out and sees me in a room. He inspects my eye while i rest my chin on the instrument.
- Okay everything seems fine. (the instrument just shines light into my eye for him to see better. He could have done it using a torchlight but i guess hospitals will always have more expensive solutions...)
- I leave to return home for a rest. ahh finally...
*erm... the following stuff is going to be abit icky...* (Go to Point 30 to SKIP!)
OK START READING AGAIN!
The end. Ooh if you skipped to point 30, you missed out the exciting parts... =X
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