I got glasses in fifth grade. Then we had burgers at the Rockin' 50s. Then I got contacts for my 13th birthday, after I began cheerleading.

Alas, I never have to wear contacts again. Today, I asked the doctor to slip me some extra Valium, just a couple. He said the worst place for a pill is on a shelf somewhere in a lab, and that at 24 hours, my eyes look so perfect, one can barely tell anything was done. A wonderful day! I went from 20/425 to better than 20/40 vision. Today wasn't vision test day. It was just, "Hey, is the flap of the cornea healing correctly?" day.

THEN, Travis and I stopped at H-E-B on the way home, and he left Suw (his ibook) on top of the truck while putting groceries in the back. And when we turned onto the I-35 access road, and heard a sliding, banging sound, is when it started to feel like a bad afternoon.

Travis ran out into heavy access road traffic to save Suw's life, as she miraculously had not yet been run over. He wasn't run over either, for which I am prayerfully thankful. Tonight, he took her all apart and put her together again. I don't know if that computer is a cat or what. How many lives is this?

PS...Travis says he is NEVER having LASIK done. He watched the whole procedure from an observation room, through a window and on a video screen.

Whilst I, under a measly five milligrams of Valium, was singing the Lambchop theme song to the staff ("This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on, my friends. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and we'll continue singing it forever just because this is the song that never ends..."), he saw them clamp down onto my eyeball, slice into the cornea and laser it! I remember him being pale when I came out of there, but what do I know, coulda been the Valium. Not to mention the blur of EVERYTHING at that moment. I told him he should have seen what I saw during that twenty minutes.

The NEWS a mother learns from her children's blogs....boggles the mind.... As far as the Lasik procedure, if he thinks THAT is something wait till he watches his wife giving birth!! :):)