Your Aunt Myrna is a miracle worker. Your dad has been wanting to get LASIK surgery on his eyes so he doesn't have to wear contacts or glasses anymore FOREVER. We just can never make the timing work. Aunt Myrn works at an eye surgery center in Utah. So, while we were up there, I gave her a call seeing if it would be at all possible to get Andy in this time around. We figured it would be a good time to do it, since he was close to starting his residency and would have super long hours, which are hard with contacts, apparently. She said that they only had one surgery day left for the month and they were all booked up, but she would look and see what she could do. Here's how it worked out: she called me the next day (Thursday) and talked to Grandma Bear, since I wasn't around. Then she called your dad at work. She said that she had been able to figure out a way to get him in for surgery the following Thursday if he could leave work early that day to go to a screening visit, then he would have his pre-op visit on Monday and the surgery on Thursday. The physician that was going to perform the surgery had to re-certify with the machine, so they would do the case for free--all that we had to pay for was to turn the machine on. So, he talked to the doctor he was working with, and he was nice enough to agree to the plan.
So your dad had the surgery. It was an interesting day--he went in for the procedure and they had to stop after one eye was done because he had bubbles in a chamber in his eye, so the laser wouldn't focus. So we had to wait for about 2 hours in between eyes, when usually they do both of them in one shot. So, in between, we went and got some Crown Burger. Your dad looked pretty good-he had one eye taped shut and the dark ophthalmic glasses on. It was awesome. But he got some food and went back and had his other eye done. Bada bing bada boom. Like I said--Aunt Myrn is a miracle worker.
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