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.
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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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DSCN4651.JPG through DSCN4673.JPG |
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| The doc leaves, and someone comes back with -- VALUIUM! Here I am,
swallowing donw the little blue pill. Notice I've reversed the name
tag, anticipating surgery, for the convenience of the doctor. |
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| For those of you in our audience who saw Randal's photos, this is the
VERY SAME THERESA who he got photos of before his operation. Here I
am, the valium clearning taking affect, directing you to look at her. |
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| Here she is again. She's just found out that she's famous on Randal's
web site, and that she's going to be on mine as well. Doesn't she look
happy? |
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| This is -- I don't know who. She's just there all the time. But check
out the pens! These pens are fantastic! Practically worth the price
of the surgery all by themselves! |
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| The valium doesn't affect me at all. |
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| I still undersand everything that's being said to me. |
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| This is it! They lead me Down The Hall. |
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| Booties. They give me surgery booties. Y'know, clean things.
WhatEVer. (The Valium is still working.) |
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| This is the quiet room that they put me in before surgery. I don't
know why.
Randal talks a lot. I don't mind. The Valium helps.
Comfortable couch. Mmmm. |
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| "We are ready for you, Ms. Lyris. Step this way, please." |
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| Randal finally leaves me to the operating room and comes here, into the
observation room. Now he has to figure out where to sit. |
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| It's my eye! |
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| They're setting up in the operation room. That green thing in my hands
is my seeing eye frog. They want you to hold something during the
operation, a towel or a stuffed animal. I bring my own frog. |
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| My eye, again! |
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