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.

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