The following is an extract from my e-journal [thank god for mobile phones and the internet!!] Sunday 18th November 2007: Usually when you wake up in the morning you do the usual getting up, going to the bathroom, taking a shower routine but today I realised that come tommorrow my routine will never be the same! Went downstairs and for the first time in a long while I began to "see" things around me. As a society we spend so much time looking [ie looking out the window, looking over our work, looking at each other etc] that i noticed things that I'd never noticed before.....birds in the trees, cats crossing the street, and the colours of the sunrise. Maybe it was just nerves from realising that tommorrow is going to be a "life changing experience"...........at least thats what the brouchre reads!! As I'm writing this its actually began to snow!! Hope thats a good sign for tommorrow!! Monday 19th November 2007: Got up this morning all excited. Snows pretty much melted!! Catching a 7:30am bus to Milton Keynes to have CUSTOMVUE WAVEFRONT with INTRALASE so I've got to run jump in the shower, change and start my journey towards perfect vision!! Just arrived at Milton Keynes....wasn't nerves until my sister started filling my head with her worries!! I've sent her shopping to keep her out of the way!! Pretty much have ten minutes before Im up....now i'm nervous!! Monday 19th November 2007 Afternoon: Firstly I'd like to say that I have a wonderful sister who was kind enough to accompany me to my surgery day and who has agreed to jot down my after thought!!! The surgery was AMAZING!!! If you know anyone thinking of going ahead with it when they say mild discomfort, they mean mild discomfort. Surgery was over in about ten minutes including setting up and everything!!! I came out and could see the tv screen in the reception area and was reading words from the screen!!! Not bad for someone who was a R&L -3.75/-2.00X90!! Going home to sleep now and then do my course of drops!! Monday 26th November 2007: This has been an amazing week! Bought my first pair of non prescription sunglasses!! I'm reading signs at great distances that I never thought I could read!! My colour contrast is wonderful and in all honesty it feels like I'm viewing the world in HD!!! I'd like to thank the wonderful staff members of the Aylesbury Branch [actually need to see the lovely dentist and hygienist out there!!] who referred to over to the wonderful staff members at Milton Keynes for my consultation. My laser counsellors [it took many people to help me on my laser journey!!] Jade, Dot, Stacey (Milton Keynes), Sian, Dianne, and Todd (Aylesbury) thank you all. My Specialist Laser Optometrists Rina Bagdhi, Deepa Katechia, Sreeti Patel and Dasi Raju thank you for for you assessments and your post operative advice. The surgery team at Milton Keynes were all helpful, supportive, and quickly put me at ease and were very wonderful on my 24hour post op too!! Thank you very much ladies!! Last but by no means least I'd like to thank Rodney Blumenfeld for a great surgery experience and would have no problems recommending him, the Milton Keynes Surgery, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury consultation teams or Optical Express!!!