LASIK

Sorry I haven't updated over the last week. I have been super busy with school work, preparing for Halloween, and getting ready for my surgery.

Well, my surgery went great. I was able to see as soon as he was done. I did end up with a broken blood vessel when they were marking my astigmatism on my right eye. It was hurting quite a bit when my numbing medicine wore off. A few hours after surgery I went and saw my eye doctor here in town and he told me it would be fine and that it would go away. I find it such a great convenience to have my own eye doctor doing all of my post-op appointments so we don't have to drive almost an hour to Kennewick.

My eyes are sensitive to bright lights right now so I get to wear my sunglasses everywhere. My favorite was last night I went to WalMart and their lights are so bright I had to shop with sunglasses on at 8pm. I certainly got more than a few weird looks. When I got home Jeff asked me how my drive at night went, and I replied "I felt like I was doing something illegal."

I have to sleep with my sunglasses on at night in order to protect my eyes while sleeping, only for the first week. I also have to put drops in my eyes quite often but that certainly won't be forever. So far I am super happy with the results. In about a month I should be done with the drops, my eyes should be done adjusting, and my corneal flap should be plenty healed.

Oh, and Jeff got to watch the whole surgery. He was on the other side of a glass wall and had a large flat screen t.v. to see close up, what was happening. He also had an employee tell him step-by-step what they were doing. I'm kinda jealous. Hmmm.......I wonder if I can get a copy, O.k. not really. I can't believe I can see! It's amazing!

Yesterday we finally got to put Nathan's new bed together. He doesn't seem to even notice or care that he has a new bed, but it's cute and Jeff and I really like it. It makes his room seem much bigger without a huge crib in it.




We also had the kids paint their little pumpkins last night. Naturally, they had paint everywhere by the time they were done. We had a good time and it didn't take a whole lot of time.

Well I didn't want to cram all of the pictures in the last blog so here are the ones of Madi on the bus.

Preschool pumpkin patch

Today Madi got to ride a bus for the very first time. She had her first field-trip, they went to the college agricultural department and visited all of the animals and then to the pumpkin patch. I was allowed to skip out on an hour of tutoring at the college in order to get spend and hour with Madison and her class. She and the other kids were excited to see me, which was a nice welcome as the teachers seemed to have cared less. When we reached the pumpkin patch the kids spread out in search of the perfect pumpkin. It was way to cute to watch. Being the person I am, I jumped right in the middle of helping out all of the little munchkins, I had so much fun. Most of the kids found big pumpkins that were far to big for them to carry in their plastic grocery bags; that I was glad to see were being recycled. The bags were quite convenient for the kids to carry, or drag their pumpkins in. Then they marked the bags with each of their names, so that they were easily identifiable later. Of course, I was encouraging the kids to get the biggest pumpkin they could find, but most of them decided that the small green ones were much easier to carry. Well, least to say Madi ended up with the largest pumpkin in the class-WHOOPS. I even helped them herd the kids back to the bus and helped them all buckle in their seats on the bus (I think the other parent and teachers were outside the bus chit-chatting with each other). I also got some cute pictures of the kids doing their thing at the pumpkin patch, the boys certainly got goofy once they saw a camera. I went back into the school with a big smile on my face. Thinking about it now I really must thank my boss for allowing me to skip out on an hour of my first day of work. I will post a few of the pictures later, I even got some of Madi's first time on the bus. My baby girl is getting so big, and I am so very proud of her.

Hopefully getting new eyes soon

Today was just another day. We went and picked up Nathan's new toddler bed today. We are waiting until Thursday to put it together so that Jeff can be home to see Nate use it for the first time. I'm pretty sure it's going to kill me to look at the box for the next 3 1/2 days.

Most of you probably don't know that I have wanted LASIK eye surgery for a very long time. We have decided to go forward with this amazing surgery. I have been researching it and talking with my ophthalmologist about it for the last couple of years. I am having the surgery on October 29th. It's being done at PCLI-Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute in Kennewick, Washington. We are going in at 7:45 a.m. and I will be there for 2-3 hours. Even though the surgery only takes a matter of minutes they have to double check all of the important measurements of my eye as to do their best to not damage them. Sounded good to me. If any of the measurements don't meet their standards I will not be allowed to have the surgery. I am excited and a tiny portion of me is nervous as they are going to be cutting my eye and using a laser to burn the surface to reshape it. Seems like a good reason to be nervous, don't you? I can't wait to be free of glasses!!! I can't wait to be able to wear sunglasses when it's bright outside, I can't wait to get up every morning and not have to find my dirty, bent up glasses. I can wear hats without them hurting my ears where they squish against my glasses. I will be able to get in a pool and see, or not look stupid having to wear my glasses in the pool. I can wear a dress and feel pretty instead of looking stupid with my glasses on. I will be a freedom for me that I can't really explain. It will be a bummer if I can't get it done or it doesn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but I have worn glasses for almost 20 years they are routine in my everyday life so I'm not to worried about having to continue the routine.

Let's try blogging

Well here is my first blog and I'm not sure how I feel about doing one. I really don't have the time to keep up with one but I think there is some family that would be interested in what is going on in our lives as we are busy and can't seem to stay in close contact with people. Well, here it goes.