My friend Sonia went in for LASIK eye surgery on 20 Feb 2002.
The surgery was performed at
Teplick Laser Surgery Center.
See my surgery pictures as well.
The annotations here are written by Sonia, with her first-person
perspective. As this is not normally the case for the pictures
in this archive, I've added this annoying additional note.
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Various friendly pictures |
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DSCN4608.JPG through DSCN4629.JPG |
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Here I am, posing by Randal's Most Impressive Transportation Device,
squinting through my glasses with my pre-lasik vision at Randal. |
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No glasses! No see anything! Bad vision? What bad vision? |
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That's the place! Teplick is the The Man, Mr. Big, He-Who-Lazers-Eyes.
Teplick is THE reason I go to this place. You'll actually meet him
later. |
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THey even gave me a name tag. This is so that during surgery, I don't
get the doctor confused so that he thinks I"m someone else and makes me
farsighted instead. Randal suggests I augment the name tag with "this
side up." I seriousloy consider it. |
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This is me with the first guy who does something to check my eyes
before the surgery. I don't remember his name, but he puts up with
Randal with a smile, so I permit him to live. |
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We're waiting for the first test room, and this doctor comes by to say
hello. Randal will take many more pictures of her before the day is
done, and will point out to me more than once that she's not wearing a
wedding ring. |
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So I'm looking into this machine and the guy says, "you can relax for a
moment," and then turns on this big set of PINK CIRCLES and I jump
back. Randal thinks this means I'm twitchy. I tell him to try the
pink circles bullseye himself. |
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Here's the results of the pink circles test. It has something ot do
with my eyes. |
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