Well, I got the procedure done yesterday morning and everything went fine. My friend emailed me in the afternoon asking how I was feeling and how it went (I'm in Mexico so my phone it out of it's network). I replied with the following...
Procedure itself was cool. Not much pain. Was a weird sensation. They used some drops to numb the eye a bit. Then when laying down they taped my eye open then us used this metal thing to hold it wide open which was uncomfortable. Then this light that was as bright as a police searchlight was brought in and shone directly into my eye. That part sucked. Reaction was to close my eye but I couldn't. Then they took a needle and inserted it into two places on the side of my eye which was the main numbing agent. Those needles hurt a bit. But after the full numbing went into effect there was very little pain.
From that point the they squirted water in my eye and some other stuff. Then they used a scapel to start cutting away. I could see the whole thing through that eye of course but could only feel pressure. It felt like if you put your eye up against the windshield during a carwash. You're looking out seeing all this stuff happen to your eye and your vision is affected but you don't feel anything. When they would cut and tug at the layer of eye when threading the stitches through it would distort my vision and then it would go back to normal.
Took about 40 mins then they bandaged me up, gave me a prescription for the pharmacy. Got the medicine, came home, napped, and just woke up and my eye is not feeling good. The stitches are constantly scratching the inside of my eyelid. Feels like there's thorn tips in there. But just gotta deal with it. Going back tomorrow for a checkup then once more next week to get the stitches removed. That will be a good day.
So today I went in for the checkup and they said everything was looking good and scheduled the stitch removal for next Wed. The gave me a prescription for some eye drops to put in every 4 hours and ointment. The stitches were still really bothering my eye so I came home a took a nap and when I woke up it was actually a lot better. Still a bit scratchy but much better than before. I put the drop in my eye just a bit ago and it was the first time I got a look at my eye since the procedure. It wasn't pretty, haha. It looked exactly like you'd expect if your eye was sliced by a knife. Could also see the stitches in there. Fortunately it doesn't feel anywhere as near as bad as it looks and in the coming weeks it should go back to looking like normal except no pterygium. All praise be to Allah! And Jesus. And Buddha.
I originally thought I'd get some trades in but with my sporadic sleep schedule cause of naps and my eye feeling not so bueno I've decided not to trade. Just been browsing the net and playing guitar. Which I'm about to do now.
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