New year, new eyes, new blog...

Here it is 2009, and in the first few weeks there have been several instances where I thought, "this would be a good thing to blog about". But since I didn't have a blog, that wasn't possible, until now. So here I am starting a new blog. Mostly for the purpose of keeping my family updated. I love you all and I love talking to you all, but there are a lot of you, and if I talked to every one of you about all the things I would like to share, I would be spending A LOT of time on the phone. So this is going to save all of us some time. This doesn't however mean that you don't need to call me just because you already know what is going on in my life. So here goes nothing.



The first big thing that happened this year was I got new eyes!! Well I didn't actually get new eyes, but I did get new eyesight due to a wonderful little procedure called Lasik. I know most of you have probably heard of it cause it's been around for awhile. I have been waiting a lot of years to have this surgery and I was very excited about it. The place where I got it done is conveniently on the first floor of the office building I work in. The doctor, Dr. Holzman has been doing it for more than 10 years and has performed more than 40,000 surgeries. I won't bore you with all the details, but the whole procedure took less than an hour and I walked out with blurry but substantially better vision. I had to go home and nap for 3 hours and by the time I woke up I could see almost perfectly. When I went in for my day after appointmen they tested my vision and it is now 20/15!! For those who know how blind I was before, this is a substantial improvement. And it has just gotten clearer each day since then. One of the highlights was wearing goggles to sleep for the first week (so you don't rub your eyes accidentally). Hence this photo. I still have to put drops in for a while, but other than that, my eyes are more low maintenance than they have been since I got glasses when I was in elementary school. Hooray for modern miracles!!

For those of you who are curious as to what they actually do during this surgery I have included the following Youtube link. I had actually never watched it until after I got it done and I'm kind of glad because I don't know that I would have dared to go through with it. My roommate who had it done compared it to peeling the skin of a grape back, lasering it and then folding the skin back on top. Awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIbG4ucNrKE