countdown to surgery

In a little less than two hours, I'll be walking through the doors of BDP Eye Center to begin my adventures in laser surgery.

There is still much paperwork to be done, and most of my time there will be spent waiting. The actual laser surgery won't happen until about forty-five minutes to an hour before I finally leave BDP. I was told to expect to be at their center for up to four hours. So, judging by that, I presume by 1:30 I will probably either have the flaps lasered and be waiting for the actual refractive surgery, or will have had both done and will be resting for half an hour so they can check their work and ensure everything went as planned before releasing me.

Yes, I am still a bit nervous, but I am trying to keep positive, chanting over and over, "it will be fine, by the end of the day you'll finally be rid of your glasses".

I need to drop off my eye drop prescriptions at Walgreen's on the way out, so that we can pick them up on the way home. As long as the insurance lady is correct, I should only be paying around $55 for both eye drops (as opposed to nearly $140 full price).

I've made a small list of questions that came up as I was reading their "Understanding Refractive Eye Surgery" booklet that I am required to read and initial each page. I'm going to ask Josh if he can think of any he may want answered.

Speaking of him, it's time for me to go start waking him up so I can start breakfast (per instructions from BDP, eat breakfast before the appointment! sometimes the sedatives can upset an empty tummy).

But, we plan on leaving by 9:30, so I should get going.

Will try to send off one more entry before I leave to let you all know I'm on my way.

Pre-op jitters

I'm already anxious about tomorrow. Kind of like the "night before christmas" feeling I always got as a kid. I couldn't sleep worth shit the night before christmas as a kid. I have a feeling the same is going to happen tonight.

As I was stopping at Circle K to get lottery tickets for tonight, I got a call on my cell phone from the counselor lady at BDP, asking me if it was still a go for tomorrow. I apologized to her and said I'd meant to call her when I got in to work (which was going to be about five minutes from when she called me), but yes, I was approved and it's still a go.

She said they may have to move my up appointment but she wasn't sure yet. I asked, "move up as in earlier, or as in later" (just to make sure I was understanding her correctly), and she said, "later than 10:30". Um, that's not moving it up, that's moving it down, at least in my opinion. Anyway, she said they'd give me a call if they do need to move me around, but so far I've not heard back from them, and I'm fairly sure they've already closed for today. So, having not heard from her regarding an appointment change, I will go in as scheduled at 10:30am.

I'll probably be quite a nervous wreck by the time I get there tomorrow. Hehe.

By Thursday night, I should see clearly

I had to call the finance company back, since it had been around three hours since I had applied and they had not called me yet. Evidently they had some computer problems earlier and had to take applications by hand until the system restored, and they hadn't gotten to mine yet.

But they took out my paperwork and put it through, and I was approved. Comes to about $67 per month for 60 months, with no pre-payment penalties so I can pay it off early if I want to.

I just called work and caught one of my bosses as he was walking out the door, he OK'd my request for Thursday off.

So it looks like it's all set. I'll just need to contact the eye center tomorrow to let them know my financing was approved so the appointment is a go ahead, and to watch for the fax from the finance company for my paperwork.

Wow. Now I'm suddenly nervous about Thursday.

Thank god they hop up their patients on Valium! Hehe.

Sign me up, Dr.

Just making a quick post, since I can't even see what I'm typing unless I hold my glasses up about five inches from my face or put my face right in front of the monitor. (my eyes being all dialated right now, and all)

I'm currently waiting to see if i have qualified for financing. I am supposed to hear back on that in about two hours.

If I am qualified, then my surgery is set up for Thursday. This Thursday. And at a discount, because they have some camera techs who need to get their certifications from the company that makes the Wavefront device, and they needed one more patient. So I get $800 off for doing it this Thursday. That is quite a deal, so I had them pencil me in for 10:30a on Thursday.

Now all I have to do is wait to see if I qualify for the financing.

I'll write more later when my vision clears up.

R.I.P - John & Johnny

that is all. :o(

That’s just wrong..

Now, if what this guy claimed is true, who the fuck is so sick as to force some poor soul to rob a bank with a bomb strapped to him, and then blow him up just because the cops caught him?

That's just sick. Sick and wrong.

the many failures of CPS in AZ

This sort of thing makes me angry. How many times do these people have to "investigate" a report of abuse before they determine there is a danger to a child's well-being? How many of these kids will die when their original report gets shuffled to the side as unimportant, or unworthy of further investigation?

I know our governor wants CPS to be reformed and whatnot, but good god, she demanded this back in January, and it's now been eight months! In a situation as critical is this, one would think that the axe would fall and the incompetent workers would be shown the door while new ones were brought in to take their places, as quickly as possible... Procedures would be reviewed & revised and instituted ASAP...

I mean, granted I have no idea what kind of backlog this group has to tackle, but I'm sure there are outside sources that are eligible to assist with that. And wouldn't you have assumed that something like this:

Under the commission recommendation, families who refuse services from Family Builders would face an investigation by a CPS caseworker.

..would have already been a procedure written in stone? It only seems logical.

I know there are laws keeping CPS' hands tied in regards to investigations, what they can or cannot do during an investigation, etc... Wouldn't it seem prudent to make exceptions to the rule? I mean, how else are you going to prove or disprove whether a child is in danger if the parents are allowed, by law, to tell CPS to stick it where the sun don't shine when they come a'knocking?

I guess that kind of falls under the same umbrella as the police not being allowed to search your property without a warrant (requiring just cause), but frankly, when it comes down to determining whether a child is in danger, I think that alone is "just cause".

Feh. Maybe I don't completely understand CPS' position in this, but I do think they became too soft about how they handled their cases, aiming to keep families together rather than to hold up to their name, "CHILD PROTECTIVE Services".

are things calming down?

I was able to get gas for my car at a gas station near work with only two other cars waiting in front of me...

I think I’ll become a scout..

to scout for gas, that is.

My car has just over 1/2 a tank of gas in it.

My fiance's truck is on "E", with the gas gauge light on. He has to drive 40 miles to get to work tomorrow, and at best, without putting gas in his truck, he might make it to work, if he does not run the A/C, at two o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, right.

It’s a madhouse

I spoke yesterday of a couple of gas stations that were completely out of gas. Well, today, one of them, the Circle K, evidently got a shipment of gas trucked in. Let the mayhem begin!!

I drove past this Circle K on my way to pick up lunch. There were cars lined up 7 - 8 deep waiting to get gas. At $1.89 a gallon.

But I was mistaken in thinking that it was a madhouse at the Circle K...

Costco was much, much worse. I think there were a good 15 cars waiting in line to get gas, for each lane of pumps! Not to mention the line of cars that sat in the left & right turn lanes waiting to even pull into the station's driveway. By the time I passed by this mess, I saw a police car pulling in (going around cars waiting in line on the street, so I assume the intent of this officer was not to get gas), presumably to get out and start directing traffic.

I made it a point not to drive back the way I came, so I could avoid the chaos in the vicinity of Costco. For as many people who seemed to be so desperate to get gas there, I have to wonder just how much of a discount they were getting for being Costco members...

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