Just had my laser eye surgery today... it was actually a little more painful than what they were telling me, but its fine now. The whole thing only takes 10 mins or so to do, with the laser on you for less than a minute. During the first part of it, they put a thing in your eye to keep you from blinking and apply a lot of pressure on the eye which makes everything black out. I knew it was coming so it wasn't scary, but still... After that the machine cuts into your cornea to make a flap. You're asked to just stare at a flashing red light and try to ignore whats going on. The doctor peels the flap back to reveal the part of the cornea to operate on, and then a laser is used to reshape it. The flap is put back into place and that's it.
My eyes were stinging and tearing all the way home. They advise you to take a long nap after you get home - that definitely helped. Everything feels fine now and I just have to keep applying my eye drops (3 different kinds, one of which is a steroid) for the next week. It's gonna take a while for my vision to stabilize, but I already see the difference. In my follow up visits they'll be able to find out what my vision was corrected to. All in all, it was expensive, but definitely worth it. No more glasses and contacts!