The Sky's looking pretty blue these days!

Originally uploaded by peejaygee

I've now healed from my laser eye surgery. It all began in December, when I had laser eye surgery done to my right eye. Why only my right eye, you ask? Well, I was born with a "lazy eye" (my left eye), that was never corrected. Anyhow, up until about 2 weeks ago, I've only really been seeing out of my right eye. The reason why I had laser eye surgery done to my right eye was because over the years, it's become somewhat weakened (probably due to the fact that it's been doing the workload of 2 eyes for 32 years). Anyhow, when I had my right eye done (which by the way, can now see better than 20/20), I asked if anything could be done to my lazy eye. The eyesight out of my left eye has always been quite limited (as an example, I've never been able to make out the big "E" at the top of the eye chart with my left eye). I could basically see large images, minus the details.

As it turned out, laser eye surgery technology has improved so much, that they could work on my left eye. Luckily, the muscle that coordinates my eyes has always worked well (which is why people are often surprised to find out that I've had a "lazy" eye), but because no correction had ever been done to it (when I wore glasses, I would just have a balance glass lens over my left eye and I've only had to wear a contact lens over my right eye....which has been great for making eye wear cheap for me), it has had years of astigmatism and near-sightedness that had built up.

I was basically promised to get no better than 20/40 out of my left eye. Didn't sound too bad, considering, I've basically never really seen much out of it to start with. So, 2 weeks ago I took the plunge. Despite an episode involving the paramedics/firefighters attending to an emergency"ish" situation at my house (I was for-warned that my brain might have a bit of a tough time getting used to seeing out of 2 eyes....which it did.....beyond migraine pain, nausea, collapse....you get the idea), I am so thankful to have been able to have the procedure done. I'm constantly closing my right to look out of my left eye alone. What an amazing thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To the London Eye Centre in New West, thank you from the bottom of my heart! To my husband, family and neighbors, who've put up with me and have been very helpful, I'm grateful. To the painkillers, I thank you as well :)