It was 5:40 in the morning when I woke up and noticed that my ski mask had come off. I wasn't really worried at first until I looked at the clock with my left eye. The clock was VERY blurry and my eye felt a little annoyed, kind of like I had a contact in that was folded. I had heard many times at the Dr's office that they have never had a wrinkled flap after the 1st night so I was trying to figure out if that is what I had. It didn't take long for me to get up and try and go look at it in the mirror to see if I could tell what was wrong. I asked Jenny to come and look at it as well but I could barely keep my left eye open in the light so she didn't see anything. I decided to call the doctor to see what I should do. It was 5:55am at this time. There was an answering service so I told them what was wrong and they said they would call the doctor and he would call back within 30 minutes. So I sat there for 30 minutes thinking about all the problems that could be wrong (the flap became detached and it is floating in my eye, or lost). Just before I was going to call again, I got a call from Dr. Ghelt (where is Dr. Lomas). She asked a few questions and thought that it was just my vision fluctuating (I guess that happens) and that I should come in at 8:30 for them to look at my left eye. OK so now I had to wait another 2 hours, great!

We got up around 7:15 to get the kids up and have breakfast. I still could not open my left eye very much and I seemed to be very sensitive to light. I pretty much ate breakfast and rode with Jenny and the Kids to the doctor's office with my eyes closed. When I got there, Dr. Ghelt took a look at my eye and said that I had a wrinkled flap. She then told me that Dr. Lomas was on a fishing trip far enough away that he would have to take a plane back. (Great! This day was going perfect.) They were going to find another surgeon that was on-call that could fix this problem. I heard them making the calls to a number of different doctors. I heard them say that one refused and the others were not available. They called Dr. Lomas again and got another list of names to call. They finally got Dr. King from King and Mockovak to agree to fix the flap at 12:30.

While I sat in a dark examination room for about 2 hours while they were trying to find a Dr., Jenny sat in the waiting room with Kyler and Ilea. Ilea was fine because she just watched the TV. Kyler was a different matter. He was all over the place getting into everything he could. Jenny decided to go to Starbucks with the kids and have them call her cell phone when they heard from a doctor. It was about 15 minutes after they left that they reached Dr. King and when they tried to call Jenny, she didn't answer. I think it was about 10:30 at this time and now I had 2 hours to get to Dr. King's office and didn't know how we was going to get a hold of Jenny. I was thinking that Jenny's phone's volume had been turned down (which sometimes happens). I told the lady making the calls to try the Starbucks down the road. She called Jenny's cell phone again and, luckily, Jenny answered this time. She came and picked me up without problem. I'll bet Dr. Ghelt was glad to get me out of there.

We arrived at The King and Mockovak building around 10:50 (they didn't open until 11:00 of course) so we waited in the van. There were a bunch of other people there waiting for post-surgery checkups. At 11:00, we all went in. They had a little room with a big screen TV and a small play area. They had a Hercules DVD so we got that going and Ilea watched quietly. Kyler watched for a brief time and then proceeded to empty all of the toys on the floor and started playing with them. I needed to fill out a few forms, so Jenny helped fill those out. We waited around for a while. Everyone that had come to the office with us was finished and had left so we were the only ones there. At about 12:40 I finally got into see Dr. King. (It didn't seem like he was very excited to see me. I could understand because he is dealing with someone else's problem.) They evaluated my eyes and determined that my vision was 20/300 in my left and 20/40 in my right. (Later, when we got the doctor's notes to take back to Dr. Lomas, I found out that the wrinkle in my cap was the worst.) At this point I still wasn't very nervous because this is a very common problem with LASIK surgeries. After the evaluation, I had to sign some more disclaimers that all kinds of bad things could happened and that I might not regain the sight in my left eye. Dr. King also mentioned a few things in this area as well. So I was starting to get concerned about now.

They took me into another room and put the "attractive" hair cap and booties on. I sat there another 20-25 minutes getting more and more nervous. By the time they came and got me, I was almost shaking. They took me to the surgery room which was much bigger and well lit than Dr. Lomas' laser room. I would say it was about 5 times as large. The nurse laid me down and gave me some numbing drops in BOTH eyes. I asked her why drops in both eyes and she said that some people get nauseous if only one eye has the numbing drops. She gave me a stuffed iguana about 3 feet long. (I thought that was kind of strange but still held it.) When Dr. King came in I was slid under the laser device where the blinking red light was. They taped up my right eye and left eye lids and then applied the lid spreader to my left eye. He lifted the flap and applied some drops. Then he lowered the flap, more drops, and proceeded to squeegee my eye again. I believe he did this 4 times. My eye really didn't feel fully numb so by the 2nd squeegee, I was shaking and very uncomfortable. I was glad I had the iguana. Around the 3rd squeegee, I thought to myself that I can go through anything as long as my eye sight is returned to a reasonable state. At the 4th squeegee, I remember thinking "I hope this is the last time...". When it was finally over and I was fully untaped, Dr. King looked at my eye and sent us home.

My vision was much better but still not great. And I was much more sensitive to light. So we went home and did the sleep-all-day thing again.