Not cutting the flap makes PRK safer, and FDA studies have
also shown that long term vision is more stable than LASIK. But everyone wants instant
gratification so hardly anyone opts for PRK – you get it if LASIK won’t work
for you. The first few days after the procedure are not awesome, and your
vision isn’t very good until around day 5-7. Which is why I decided to delay it
until after the season. I was training for the Chattanooga 70.3 at the time of
my initial consultation and wasn’t entirely sure how this would affect that. I
figured I’d waited this long already so what was another few months.
I got the procedure done early in the afternoon on Thursday and
they have you take half a Valium for relaxation and the other half when you go
home so you can sleep. And boy did I sleep! We were home at 3pm and I slept
until 9pm when Marty woke me up so I would eat. I had a pb&j and then went
back to sleep until 7am the next morning. Friday and Saturday were not super
painful, but I just literally couldn’t open my eyes for more than a second or
two. It felt like my eyelids had ten pound weights on them and they were very
sensitive. Mostly I laid around and listened to audio books. Shout out to
Marty, husband and father extraordinaire. By Sunday I was able to open my eyes
fine, but my vision was pretty awful (probably around 20-60). At my follow-up
that Tuesday it was 20-40, and Thursday it was 20-30 in one eye and 20-40 in
the other). My coworkers laughed at my screen resolution, but other than that everything was good. At my one month follow-up, I was 20-20 (but I did miss one letter) and they said that over the next 2 months my vision will continue to get crisper.
This all coincided with a mini break which worked out nice.
I hadn’t really done much riding since early October and now I wasn’t going to
be able to swim for over 2 weeks. The remaining part of November was very much
do whatever you want type things as Ironman training was set to begin in
December.
I ran enough to make sure I could complete a half marathon
on Thanksgiving without any problem – I ran with a friend who is also doing IM
Texas and we talked the whole way on a chilly morning. It was a great start to
the holiday. We had our traditional friends-giving that evening and then on
Friday we drove out to the mountains to spend the rest of the time with
Hughston’s. We rented a small cabin, hiked the Appalachian Trail, played lots
of cards and ate and drank too much. It was tons of fun.
Ironman training has officially started but all of December
is going to be about consistency and trying not to miss much with the holidays.
Luckily, I’m surrounded by great friends who are also training, and great
husbands who are all very supportive.
Next week – Logan turns 6!
And now a few pictures to commemorate Thanksgiving and the fact that Logan can now take our picture pretty good.
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Then he wanted me to take his picture |
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And finally he wanted to take a selfie. |
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And the reason why his hair looks funny above is because Marty let him get his hair cut with a double mohawk. And it obviously couldn't stay like that for too long. |
2 comments:
Glad you are surrounded by great husbands. I only ever heard about Marty. You should add the others to the blog once in a while. ;)
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