All’s Weld that Ends Weld
10:00 on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 • 3 responses
I now have no fewer than 204 triple-seam laser spot welds in my left eyeball. The doctor, who referred to his surgical laser as his “death ray”, was quite expert at all-things-eyeball and I my vision couldn’t have been in better hands. I’m quite grateful that he was able to fit me in before I leave for my honeymoon, as retinal detachment had already begun (eep).
Every time I go to the eye doctor I leave thinking that they have the coolest equipment on the planet. I’ve been in nuclear reactors, movie and music recording studios and space command centers, and I have to say—lenses and lights and eye charts and lasers beat buttons, knobs, faders and computer monitors hands-down.
All I want for xmas is a death ray. Just an itty bity one.
p.s. And yeah, the laser surgery was extra-creepy. I was totally blind out of my left eye for about 10 minutes, and when vision started coming back everything was red and blurry, like I was viewing the world through a Jello mold. A few days of headaches and odd vision anomalies and everything seems to have calibrated itself. Yay for death rays!
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