This eye surgery is really not for the weak of heart, and also not for you if your pain threshold is more on the low side. Or that of your spouse. Neil has regretted that he didn't go for the more expensive lasik option, where his corneas would have stayed intact and the healing process is much shorter and way less painful. The end result is the same (he had lasek, not lasik), but the road for Neil is a Trail of Tears right now. So, if you consider this laser eye stuff, be cautioned and weigh your options. Neil is sleeping with protective goggles which he still manages to push aside in his sleep to rub his eyes, a HUGE no-no which resulted in him injuring his healing eye and all of us making the drive to Munich for the third time in four days. Hence, he has resorted to taping the goggles onto his face. You're laughing. Yeah, me too. At first.
So, here are a few more idioms to avoid when talking to Neil these days:
Hindsight's 20/20. You're really a sight for sore eyes. How can you turn a blind eye to all this? My eyes almost popped out of my head! In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. --- And so on, you get the message.
We are all hoping Neil will be back to his old self soon, except better. His vision before the surgery was only 10% without his glasses/contacts, and now it's 30% in one and 40-50% in the other eye. Hopefully he'll have eagle eyes REAL soon! Meanwhile we're trying to cut him some slack when he's irritable (it hurts, he's bored, can't drive, can't read, he didn't get a snowman cookie) and impatient. Because, you know,
LOVE IS BLIND.
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