Hey James Bond, I had a laser shot into my eye, I’m still alive, you pussy.

Last night was nice warm night, first time in a few days we actually did not turn on the heater. But it was an early morning, up at 6am to feed and walk Indie and head up to Pocatello for 8am surgery. As you can imagine it was not a restful sleep, worrying about the laser. Bottom line for those who don’t want to read the details, the surgery seems successful, but the doctor wants to see me on Thursday morning, so another day soaking in the hot springs.


So I learned a bit more about retina tears over night and talking to the doctor, they seem to happen to people over 45 years old. The signs are bright flashes in the eye and little floaters in the eye. The floaters are caused by the gel in your eyeball getting all mixed up due to the pull on the outer retina wall and the tear. The good news is most of the tears are on the side of the eye and not in the vision area. If they were in the vision area, that would be a bigger issue. Mine was in the lower front nasal area of the left eye. So if you start seeing floaties in your eye or start seeing light flashes go visit the doctor.

So I got to the doctor office and they dilated my eye, then I went into the "Goldfinger" room with the laser. I sat on a stool and held my head into device that supported my chin. Dr Jones then put a lens into my eye, like an extended contact lens, extended by about 1”, and pushed hard. He then started zapping my eye with the laser, he aims and has a foot pedal to shoot. It emits this very bright green light and you can feel the burn in the eye, not bad, but you know it. About 1/3 of the way I had to ask him to stop, thought I was going to throw up, I didn’t. It took about 45mins and about 150 laser zaps, it was not fun at all. Now I know what Paris Hilton feels like when she doesn’t wear her panties and the paparazzi finds out, I could not see out of the eye for about 30 mins.

It took me about 20 mins to leave the office then I drove 2 blocks to a park next to Idaho State University. I could not drive, could barely walk, so I played with Indie, I sat and threw the ball and he would bring it back, for about 1 hour while recovering. I’m sure I looked like a serial killer with sunglasses, hat, hoodie, covering my eyes and crying. But in Idaho, I was just a local.

We left and drove back to Lava Hot Springs, about 45 minutes, were I napped for about 2 hours and then soaked in the hot springs, that is so sweet. I bought an eye patch on the store and was running around looking like a pirate for several hours.

I cooked dinner at the campsite, the fish were jumping in the river and Indie was stationed on the shore thinking one will jump and he can eat it, good luck to that.

Tomorrow I’ll spend another day in Lava Hot Springs, have some good pictures that I’ll send out. Computer is too hard on the eye tonight, I’ll just go soak in the hot springs before bed.