I can see! I can SEE!!!

I'm back to posting, and for the first time, without glasses or contact lenses :-D The operation went well. Virtually painless, thanks to floods of anesthetic drops, but certainly scary, since you're not only awake throughout the whole procedure, but you can see it being done, hear the instruments shaving off your eyes' top layer, and even smell your corneas being burned off by the laser. Scary enough for you? It was for me. They gave me some Valium to calm down beforehand and I gladly swallowed it. It worked to a degree, but I was still nervous. Thank god for a nurse whose job it was to remind me to relax and breathe during the surgery. That really helped. The pain afterwards was much less than I had expected. I was more sensitive to the light, but that only lasted like 3 days. Glare and haze weren't, and still aren't a big issue. The weirdest thing is actually just the fact that the vision fluctuates a little, or so it seems (so today you gain a little, tomorrow you might lose a little, and/or vice versa), which makes it impossible to predict how much you'll be able to see. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm talking minor differences here, I can always see just fine. It's just the level of detail that isn't always the same. Impressive was that, right away, I could see fine... unaided. I went from 20/400 to 20/30 virtually instantaneously, and to 20/25 after a couple days. I'm still there today, and the surgeon told me that I'll gradually get to 20/20 (or even 20/15) but it could take up to 2 months. The worst thing is that the cornea isn't smooth yet, but all jagged, still healing and rebuilding itself, and this is what causes the details to be blurred. The hardest things to read are, apropos, computer monitors and anything digital, because the letters kind of double up, melt, and spill into each other. Let me tell you, I can't wait for that to clear up!! For the rest, I see very well and my eyes don't burn like they used to, unless I'm in front of a computer (or the TV, but less), which is great because the level of discomfort had become unbearable. I'll be looking out for more and more details in the weeks to come... Overall... I'm happy :-D