Gown Fitting

Gal is preparing for her big day...she's so beautiful!

Here are some pictures tho it seems to be blurry:

Ear Piercing

Gal had her ears pierced on 9 Aug 2009 which falls on S'pore National Day and Guan Yin Dan. My mum said that it will be good to do ear piercing on Guan Yin Dan so we went ahead to do it on Sunday.

Gal felt the pain after the 1st earring is inserted on her right ear and she cried so loud that everyone is looking at her...she didn't want to do again on her left, she used her hand and shoulder to cover her left ear for a long time and I have to keep coaxing till she lets down her awareness and the 2nd one is inserted...sad to say, the left one is not aligned properly due to her struggle...so I will bring her to pierce again at another shop when hubby is back.

In our days, we do ear piercing in goldsmith shops so we tried to find goldsmith shop to do the ear piercing for gal in chinatown but nowadays, they do not have the service anymore. In the end, we approached a shop which does tattoo and piercing which is operated by "Chinese"...I'm not biased against Chinese but the professionalism is really not there...I regretted to have gal's ear pierced there because of the following:

1) I do not know if the "gun" they used to pierce is sanitized cos I did not see her using anything to clean it before use...
2) She did not apply the alcohol patch to gal's ears before inserting the earrings...
3) She only brought out the alcohol patch upon MY REQUEST! which was after the right ear is pierced!!!

For the past few days till now and the future, I'm really worried for gal's health...I'm at fault, I let down my caution on these little things, I should have asked and checked properly...

Lasik

Finally, I did my lasik on 26th July 2009 at The Lasik Surgery Clinic @ Paragon Medical Centre.

Here, I'm going to pen down my experience of the process.

Basically, the visit to the clinic consists of two parts which is the Evaluation and Surgery procedures. You can choose to have both evaluation on the same day or on separate days if you are a suitable candidate. For me, of course to save time, I choose to have both evaluation and surgery to be done on the same day.

From my case, the whole evaluation process took about 3hrs...and luckily, my parents and brother is there to entertain gal(brought her shopping and play) while I spent my time there. After all the evaluation process, I'm directed to see the doctor which I have assigned. I assigned Dr Marc Tay to be my surgeon for the surgery as my cousins and brother had asked for his service before. He told me that my cornea is higher than normal and suggests that I go for the Intralase(Bladeless process). Actually, I've decided to go for Inralase before Dr Tay's advice.

I was told that the surgery will takes about 2hrs so I have about 1.5hrs to spare to have my lunch as my surgery time is at 2pm.
At 2pm, there were three of us who will be doing the surgery and I'm the second to do it. In the resting room, eye drops were given to reduce the size of the pupil prior to the surgery. My pupil is not able to reduce its size when my turn is due..so I have to wait. My pupils finally reduced after the 3rd attempt of the eye drops which is about an hour or more later.

During the surgery, a rubber suction is used to suck the eyeball up(felt like someone digging the eyeballs) and to prevent it from moving and I can actually feel the laser cutting the cornea as it's warm. After it is cut, the vision is blurred and then transferred to the laser machine. I can see the surgeon open the flaps of my cornea and then each eye is being laser for 42s and 45s respectively. During the laser process, burning sensation can be smelt. After the laser process, I saw the surgeon closed the flap and brushing it to make it smooth. I was assisted to rest at the resting area again for 10mins, antibiotic eye drops and eye shields is given to each eye and I'm ready to go home.

During the journey home, I hardly can open my eyes, I even had my diner with my eyes closed. Basically, there's nothing I can do but to close my eyes to rest and luckily gal is well taken cared of by my parents. Two sleeping pills are given and we can take one after diner so that we can rest peacefully without disturbance. After a day rest, I can finally open my eyes and is able to see about 75%.

There will be three post up reviews. The 1st review is the day after the surgery and the second is about 2 weeks later. As for the third, I'm not sure yet but for me, will definitely be before I fly off to France again. As of today, the 10th day, I can say that I can see clearly with my left eye and as for my right eye, it's still blurry, will consult the doctor again when I go for my 2nd review...

My advice to those mummies with kids, pls go for the evaluation and surgery yourself and arrange the staff to bring you to the taxi stand and have someone to pick you from your block. Treat it as a ONE day OFF, don't worry about kids, babies etc...cos really can't do anything after the surgery.

I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU for hubby who supported me fully to go for the surgery and of course, my family members who took care of gal while I'm waiting at the clinic and resting at home.