Eye Exam III

After counting the days for months, the operation day finally arrived. My grandmother was more anxious that day than in her wedding day. She and I must be punctually at 6:00 a.m. at the hospital, so we woke up at 4:30 a.m. At that hour, my grandmother took a shower, packed a blanket, and took her blood pressure pills. She couldn’t eat breakfast.

We arrived early at the cold hospital. However, my grandmother waited for hours in the operation room. I guessed that the ophthalmologist operated about ten patients that day. Unfortunately, my grandmother was one of the last patients.

The outpatient operation consisted of a 30-minute laser surgery. After two hours in the recovery room, my grandmother left the hospital at 3:30 p.m. with an eye patch in her left eye. She was a little drowsy because of the anesthesia.  After having an empty stomach all that time, she asked for a big plate of food.

The next day, we visited the doctor’s office. He removed the eye patch and examined her eye thoroughly. Thank God, everything was OK. My grandmother must wear sunglasses all the time for two weeks, and I must administer to my grandmother eye-drops ten times per day in her operated eye. The doctor scheduled a follow up visit for August, and then we left the doctor’s office.

And the $64,000 question: Can she see? The answer in the next post.

To be continued.