The four-eyed one loses two

I am back to Blogs after a week`s medical layoff. I had vision correction surgery on the 1st of October, and as per the doctor`s advice, decided to give my eyes a much needed rest, before exposing them to the harsh world of computers. This last week, has been torturous. No TV, No Reading, No outings and worst of all, No Blogging. Cooped up at home, all I did was follow a fellow blogger`s advice, and eat, eat and eat, since there was nothing else to do.

Well, the surgery in itself went off quite well. It is what comes after that is slightly hard. Those accursed drops that make your eyes sting, literally make you cry. The worst part was that I have to fight this insane urge to rub them, since that could be detrimental. You are supposed to guard them against water too, and that meant no head bath. As my close friends would tell you, I have this obsession of washing my face umpteen number of times a day. That had to be put on hold. The black goggles that I was supposed to wear, whenever I went out of the house, was the final straw. My friends in a vain effort to comfort me told me I looked like Will Smith from MIB. The fact that they wanted to console me, dissuaded me from telling them that I actually looked like the character from (MIB - MI = B). Those glasses, very successfully managed to do what I was hoping I wouldn`t need to do. Stay at home!!

The results, nevertheless, have been nothing short of spectacular. Within a day of the surgery, I could read all five letters in the last line of the chart, pinned in the doc`s cabin; a feat which even my dad with normal vision, couldn`t accomplish. I tried on my old pair of glasses just for fun, and realized just how improved my vision was, post-surgery. The true indication of how totally non-dependant I was on glasses, came when I promptly went and lost them.

I am still getting used to life without glasses. Many times, my hand automatically touches the bridge of my nose, in an attempt to stabilise my non-existent, imaginary glasses, and I immediately realise how foolish I must look doing that. Need to kick that habit. Or, I wake up in the morning and find myself scrambling for my glasses, and on opening my eyes realize I don`t need them anymore. All these are things that I have to learn to avoid.

Well, that was my tryst with LASIK. Apart from the drops which I have to use till the next week, there is no major trouble. But, as per my earlier post, I am still donning the zero-index glass for the most part of the day. My friends have asked me to upload my pic sans glasses, and i finally feel comfortable enough to comply, since I am slowly getting used to my new look. I would like to thank all of you for your wishes, which I made my friend read out to me, over the phone, while I was recuperating. My new avataar, unfortunately hasn`t changed my blogging habits, and you`ll still have to put up with my crazy blogs, which I keep unleashing on bloggers from time to time. Need to catch up on a lot of pending work now. So, till the next time, ciao.