Freaky Friday
Friday Shannon H. at work had Lasik surgery and I was her designated driver. They prepped her and took her into the operating room and sat me down in the room next to her’s with a monitor where they taped the procedure. It was like a car wreck! I couldn’t look away! It was, without a doubt, the most horrifying thing I’ve ever witnessed and it was all I could do not to run in there and push the doctor away from her. And the worst part- after they finished the first eye I had to sit through the whole thing again on the second eye! I was so skeeved out that the nurses were telling Shannon I was freaking out and that I may need Valium!
Here’s Shannon H. getting ready to go under the laser! 
Here’s the first image that popped up onto the screen in the room I was in:
This is the clamp they put down on her eyeball: 
You can see the metal thing that keeps her eyelids open in the corner! ew! close up! Then the white thingy spun around and cut a circular flap in her cornea!
Then they used this metal stick thingy to flip the flap back:
This is where I was writhing in my seat. “>close up!
Here’s where I almost passed out: then they took a metal scrapey thing and scraped her eye meat under the flap! I was too traumatized to take pictures. That’s when the laser went off. You can see the laser pattern in the next picture if you look really close.
Then they flipped the flap back, squirted a bunch of stuff in her eye then took this sponge on a stick and smoothed it all out. eeeeiiaiiaiiee!
close up!
After I witnessed the horror all over again with the 2nd eye she came into the room where I was waiting like she didn’t just have her eyes lasered and butchered while I watched. It really is a miracle though- in just 15 minutes or so she went from glasses dependent-blind-without-them to seeing pretty darn clearly. And she’s back at work today reading things all over the place. The nurse said I may be a good candidate. No thank you ma’am. I think I’d rather just poke my eyes out with a hot, rusty fork instead!
Bless Your Heart 
