Thanks, anka.  What a day - the outer edges of Hurricane Ivan hit
Georgia yesterday and we spent 11 hours without power at home but
otherwise everything is fine.

Anyway, the treatment was interesting.  It wasn't painful, but it
wasn't exactly what I would pick to do with my spare time.  :)

Preparing for the laser was a lot like having my pressure checked;  I
sat in a low-back chair in front of a machine which looks a lot like a
tonometer.  A drop was placed in the eye to be treated like usual, but
I think this was more heavy-duty than the usual because my eye was
'numb' for a couple of hours.  The assistant helped me place my head
in the chin/forehead cups and Dr. Chopra aligned the machine (like a
tonometer).  

A focusing lens was then placed in my eye.  It's a funnel-shaped thing
that pressed up against the surface of the eye pretty tightly.  Then
away Dr. Chopra went with the laser.  I had expected that the laser
would auto-magically work in some pre-set pattern (don't know why I
thought that, though) but Dr. C aimed it and fired, so to speak,
manually.  

There was a click/buzz and a sort of pinching feeling for each firing
of the laser, along with the much-mentioned green splashes of light.
=)  It wasn't painful but there were seconds of discomfort.  I didn't
count, but I think the laser was fired about 12 times or so.

It only took a couple of minutes and another drop was put in my eye.
The sight in that eye was *really* blurry and that was a bit
disorienting for a minute or two but by the time I walked out to the
waiting room (where Joe was waiting for me) that had subsided.  I felt
like my eyelid was drooping but I think that was just the fact that my
eye was really numb, and that feeling lasted for about a half-hour.

Joe and I went out to lunch and I came back for a pressure check.
That went fine and I was out the door again in about two minutes.

There was a little swelling in the eye but no redness, not even any
scratchy feeling (but I don't have a problem tearing, though I was
told that I could use artificial tears if my eye began to feel dry).  

I was given a prescription for Vexol, an anti-inflammatory, to be used
4x per day for 4 days.  That stings a little bit when I first put it
in but it goes away in a minute or two.  

Looking in the mirror I can't tell that I just had a laser fired into
my eye yesterday, so I think that is an excellent sign.  :)  My vision
is back to normal.  The biggest problem I'm having is remembering to
use the Vexol four times a day!

I'm still using Lumigan in both the treated and the other eye per
usual.  

So anyway, that's really about it.  I go back in three weeks for a
pressure check, I'm really hoping for good results!  I don't mind
using the Lumigan forever if I have to, so as long as the pressure is
down enough to just do the one drop, I will be quite pleased.

(Plus I get to gross out my friends by telling them I had HOLES
punched into the INSIDE of my EYE with a LASER!  Haha.)

Leigh

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Consequences, shmonsequences, as long as I'm rich.  - D. Duck