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I went in for LASIK eye surgery on 21 Jul 99. The surgery was performed at Teplick Laser Surgery Center.

See my friend Sonia's surgery pictures as well.
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The_Day_01.jpg through The_Day_20.jpg
The_Next_Day_01.jpg through dilated_face.jpg
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The_Day_01.jpg
These are pictures on the day of surgery.
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My coke-bottle bottom glasses. I needed 8 diopters of correction with +2 for astigmatism.
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My shelf of vision past.
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Bill drove me to the clinic.
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I'm just about to go in to the clinic. I'm nervous, can you tell?
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Teresa the receptionist, corrects the spelling on my nametag.
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Bill waits patiently in the lobby.
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My last picture with glasses.
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Bill took this in the monitor in the viewing area. Nurse Julie (one of the two Julies, anyway) applies anesthetic and irrigation drops to my eyes.
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Bill snuck over to the actual O/R to take this picture. I'm grabbing that towel very nervously.
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This is through the scope that the doc is using to make the cuts. I'm not sure what the blue circles are.
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This is the microkeratome, which makes a small flap in my cornea. The flap is folded back, and the laser shoots underneath.
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I believe the flap is already folded back here, and I'm getting positioned for the 100 brief laser pulses.
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This is the laser targeting system in action. The whiffs of white around the edges are in fact bits of my cornea that have been burned off. This part was completely painless, in case you are wondering. The only slight pain I felt was the tongs that kept my eyelids open.
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Coming out of surgery, they place a protective shield over my eyes to keep anything from getting near them. I took the shield off the next day. I'm holding my now-useless glasses in my hand. That's Jim Dale on the right, an intern working with Dr. Teplick.
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I was running around making The Fly images for people. That's Bill on the right, and bug-eye on the left. I can see pretty well here, and I was reading street signs all the way home from the office.