I Once Was Blind, But Now I See…..Sort Of

This is my friend Valerie, her husband Nathan, and two of their children, Lincoln and Drew. Recently I did the math. Valerie and I have been friends for over 20 years! We met during our sophomore year of high school in Mr. Zeeman’s English class, I think while discussing the book Great Expectations. It must have been a very bonding sort of discussion because we’ve managed to stay friends over these many years despite never really living anywhere near each other since we left for college.

As I announced on my last blog post, I just under went vision correction surgery this last week. Valerie’s husband Nathan is an ophthalmologist and a very good one. He was the doctor who performed my surgery. He did a fabulous job and each day as I begin to see more clearly, I become more and more grateful to he and Valerie for helping me out in this way. They treated me very well.

Valerie and Nathan live in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, so in order to have Nathan do the surgery I flew out to their place and stayed for a few days. Despite the fact that I was nearly blind for the duration of my visit we managed to have a great time. We went shopping for clothes and furniture, planned out some decorating options for Valerie’s new home, toured their beautiful community, went out to eat, looked through scrapbooks of memories, attended a hockey game, and talked until our faces fell off.

It was great to see Valerie’s life in action. We talk on the phone fairly often, but it was nice to get a visual of everything she has described over the phone. She and Nathan are very dedicated parents and also serve tirelessly in the church. Valerie is the Relief Society president in her ward and she is dedicated to her calling. I was impressed and inspired.

As far as my vision is concerned, you can all rest easy. I didn’t go blind. My eye sight is still a bit on the blurry side but I told this is to be expected with PRK so I’m just waiting patiently as my eye heal themselves. Nathan said it could take up to four weeks before I can see 20/20. I can’t wait! Sadly, my travel camera is broken so I didn’t get any pictures of my trip. It’s a real shame too because I looked awesome with yellow iodine painted on my face and my eye’s taped wide open. The eye shields I had to wear post surgery were pretty sexy too.

Thanks to all who took care of my kids during my trip. I appreciate all of you who are so willing to help me out when I need to be gone. Thanks again to Val and Nathan from the bottom of my heart. I’ll be forever in your debt. Love you guys! If there is ever anything you need, especially in the way of computer help, just let us know. I’ll get Mike on it.