Tomorrow, I’m going HERE:

http://www.alderbrookresort.com/spa/

I cannot wait! This is my Christmas gift from Mikey, and we are going to have such a great time. We are staying overnight, although originally we weren’t gonna. Just too beautiful to pass up! I absolutely love traveling to nearby places. Everyone should do it! We all have wonderful places to go, right in our backyards.

LASIK pre-op was today, and for the first time this lasik experience has been unventful! Now, I still have to call and cancel (again) and Dr. #2 because they left me a voicemail confirming my appointment that I already cancelled. Meanwhile, my eyes are dilated on Seattle’s Sunniest Day Ever, unfortunately. :) I’m like a drunk, all holed up in the house with curtains drawn.

Yesterday I took a wonderful Flash course (web animation software) at a teaching studio literally down the street. It’s an Adobe certified center, was super great, and I never knew it was there! I hope to take a class there again in the future. It was fun to learn something in a class setting again. I was a little jealous of all those people whose employers had paid for them to be there, as my self-employed employer (me) was paying for this one. Super reasonable, though! And much easier than the online tutorials I’ve tried in the past.

If you were wondering since I mentioned it earlier, all reports say my cousin’s son (Grant) is doing very well post op, is being extremely brave and tough (as I knew he would be) and we are all very happy to hear that this is true. For mom’s side of the family who reads, know that our thoughts are there with you even though we are out here.

I was thinking to myself, “wonder if anyone is questioning why I’m not writing about something like this?” Maybe not. But the answer is that I leave my blog for my lame, unimportant stories (a.k.a. ‘42 things that make my dogs bark’) rather than friends/ family important ones. I don’t know, maybe it’s my PR background or lessons in appropriateness, but I never want a friend or relative to feel like I’m telling their story. I know that anyone who reads my blog who needs to know details about something already knows them from the family directly. That being said, I will express the facts that my thoughts are going to those important things, even if the blog does not ;)

So, everyone, for example, your pregnancy, psoriasis or hemorrhoid stories… all safe with me.

Frankly, if you have hemorrhoids, I really don’t want to know. ;)

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Yeah. More.

On a whim called another place, thinking it would probably just validate my decision. And they had availability next week. Decided to go with it. Surgery is Feb 11, two weeks sooner.

Now that all potential doctors know how crazy I am, and my family/ friends are totally bored with these idiotic stories… I’m boring myself!!

I won’t go into how when I called office #2 to tell them I was using office #3 they told me they could suddenly do it on the 12th now, the day I originally wanted. I really liked that office so I will have continued frustration in this decision. The universe is teaching me a lesson in being satisfied. I SO wish I would have known, but I guess it wasn’t meant to be. If only they had put it there originally…

But this will be done sooner, and I’m so tired of searching for doctors!! I didn’t get my wish of staying in the city, but it is what it is. My husband is a saint for listening to me and driving me to all this stuff. He will have to drive me to Bellevue three times in two weeks, all on work days.

This has all been completely ridiculous and needlessly frustrating. And that concludes my world’s most tedious and boring LASIK story. I’m done talking about it!!!!! [thank goodness.]

I hope this new place is good!

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Hi from Seattle, where we just finished the warmest January on record. :)

In celebration of Groundhog day, my LASIK doctor has seen his shadow — there will be another month of leave for him (at least). SO I’ve switched. I was starting to think I was ready to put my lenses back in and just wait on the doctor, but I’m just not confident in his schedule or, frankly, level of focus after such a long absence, and I’m afraid it will never get done. The whole point of this was to stop putting it off and get it DONE so I can see my kids someday when I have to get up with them in the middle of the night.

Switching was a big pain in the a**! I have no recommendations or referrals for anywhere, and no doctors to ask. Googling and googling, calling, leaving messages, hearing about appointment times that won’t work anyway, appointment times that are forever away, surgeries that are astronimically priced, doctors that are too far away for my liking, places that look to “tacky” for me to be willing to have them cut my eye open….

Finally got ahold of the office I had been considering my back up place. My consult is scheduled for Monday. My surgery is scheduled for, wait for it, Feb. 23! That’s only glasses for SIX weeks total. So, that’s a six week headache for me and glasses for the Olympics… Oh well! I’m still quite regretful that glasses are not a viable seeing option for me. I was willing to do a week, two weeks, then three… I’m not to terms with this timing quite yet. However, I AM relieved that I’m on a calendar somewhere. This is, at least, an improvement. (Yes, I know, millions of people wear glasses. I do NOT. I am paying thousands of dollars for surgery so that I don’t ever have to have the pain of glasses or contacts again…. otherwise, I would just stick with these good ol’ things.)

I’m not 100 percent sure I’m willing to sacrifice my comfort at the olympics yet. I have been wanting to do this my whole life, we’re going because it’s a ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity. So, I’m still not convinced I’m not going to reschedule the surgery for later in March so I can put my contacts back in. But I need to sleep on it a few nights because this is still new. Again, Oh Well!

Meanwhile, my cousin’s young son is having major [planned] surgery today. So all frustrations aside, perspective is an important thing today! I’m thinking very much of Grant today, wishing the remainder of the surgery goes smoothly and that he has a speedy recovery! Updates are all good so far!

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Ruby and Matilda’s new harnesses that Mommy shopped for and ordered have arrived today! Ironically, the same time as my own new “top,” on super sale at Lulu.

Don’t they look cute in their Puppia harnesses? A little dog harness finally made for a big dog. Omg, do you know how much STUFF they make for those little dogs?! Everything! No comfort harnesses for the big girls until recently, according to what I found. These are brand new, just out.

Luckily, they fit! They were almost too big. They have to wear them on the smallest size. And they tried to tell me the XXL harness could fit a cocker spaniel. That would be one ginormous cocker spaniel! I measured very carefully, apparently the people at that company have never measured a cocker spaniel.

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So I mentioned the eye surgery in the last post, but I haven’t blogged about my LASIK plans specifically yet. I’ve been talking about doing it forever, always saying “someday” I was going to do that. The thought of someday being able to get up in the middle of the night and be able to see clearly has always been nice (a.k.a., when I have small children, for instance.)

So thanks to Mike saying “just do it now”, in December we decided I would pursue this after the new year. We have a friend here who just had it done this fall, and I was just going to take his recommendation because he had a very good experience with the doctor.

Well, I called early January and got scheduled for a consultation, it was a little over a week away. No contacts for a week leading up to the consultation. I had my consultation, it went well, and I got scheduled for the surgery for the next week. I liked everyone at the office, and the doctor was perfectly fine. No complaints.

Well, last tuesday they called and said the doctor was having a family emergency and had to move my surgery to this coming friday. Kind of a bummer since we moved the spa day to accommodate the surgery, but oh well. I understood, and I wasn’t really upset.

They called again today and cancelled it. Not really a lot of explanation, just that the doctor is dealing with a family emergency for at least the rest of the month, and they will call me when they know about February.

I’m so frustrated! While of course being concerned for the doctor and feeling sympathetic for what ever is going on, I’m still just really frustrated. There’s a lot of anxiety about having your eye cut open, so that’s one reason I’m ready to get this over with. Plus, I just want to be done! I was ready last week. And now I can’t do it this week, and I can’t do it next week because I am absolutely not moving our spa weekend again, just for them to potentially cancel on me.

I’m really just at a complete loss. I can either just wait until this doctor is doing surgeries again — could potentially be very soon, but I don’t know yet. (They only do them on Fridays.) Or I could switch doctors and wait to get in for a consultation, do the two hour consultation all over again (for which Mike also has to miss work,) then wait for a surgery date. This may not get me done any sooner. AND I have no idea where to go. I don’t really want to go to a Lasik-only place… I really want to go to an ophthalmologist, because I need a regular one anyway and I’d like to continue to see the doctor after the surgery for my regular exams.

I’m trying to keep my frustrations in perspective. But my inability to wear glasses long term is the whole reason I’m getting this done. I’ve had a headache pretty much constantly for three weeks, AND I absolutely cannot make it through yoga class without wanting to cry. So I haven’t been going, and that makes me feel pretty crappy. I cannot have contacts in within two weeks of surgery. And I don’t know when surgery is, so…

Plus, no mascara, no allergy eye drops, and I’m erring on the side of caution on a lot of things. I was even afraid to make an acupuncture appointment within days of my surgery, just incase.

I went ahead and scheduled an acupuncture appointment for tomorrow. Needless to say I’m experiencing a little stress and could use some release.

So I’m hoping for February 12. Which is two and a half weeks away. I have called a couple other places, but just don’t see how I can get in any sooner than what I’m likely to get at the current place. But I haven’t ruled it out. At this point, really all I can do is wallow in my bad luck and just wait.

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