He Can See!!

Brad's vision has never been great; poor thing couldn't see the alarm clock in bed.  So, when our optometrist (and friend), Jennifer, told us in December he could have lasik he was estactic and was ready to have it done right then.  Long story short, we decided to have the surgery done in Huntsville and the beginning of May would be the time to do it.

So, we go for the pre-op appointment.  We both thought the appointment would take 15 or 30 minutes.  2 hours later we left and it was not because we were waiting to see the doctor.  It was because the doctor was giving Brad so much attention.  He had a bunch of tests and scans run to make sure everything went well.  When it was time to talk with the doctor he presented 4 options to us.  1) stay the same 2) lasik 3) lasik with something else and 4) an implantable contact.  Jennifer told us about the contact before but wasn't sure if Brad would be a contact.  I thought this option was really neat and if it was an option Brad may want to consider it.  Turns out he was a candidate and the doctor thought it would give him "a better quality of vision" (whatever that means).  After thinking about it and talking with Jennifer, Brad decided to go with option 4, the implantable contact.

What this means is that Brad had a contact implanted in his eye.  Lasik shaves away your cornea, but with the implantable contact, they do just that and implant a contact.  When we changed procedures, we changed our time frame.  Originally, we would have the pre-op appointment Thursday, lasik Friday, follow up Saturday.  Instead, we went for the pre-op as planned, went back Friday for a procedure that involved a laser being shot in each eye, then Tuesday Brad had the left eye done (actual surgery and then came back for follow up), Wednesday the right eye was done (follow up done that afternoon) and the final follow up with the eye surgeon was Thursday.  At that appointment Brad was seeing 20/15 out of the left eye and 20/30 out of the right eye.  We are going to see Jennifer at the end of the week to see if the right has improved to 20/20. 

Brad before the surgery

Brad just after the surgery was done.  He was supposed to wear this fashionable plastic eye patch but opted for sunglasses as we enjoyed chips and cheese dip at Little Rosie's while waiting to go back for one of the follow-up appointments.

I am so excited for Brad that he can see without glasses or contacts!!