7 Germans and 20 Danish(men)

This Laser Travel trip is indeed very well organized. At 9am taxis picked the whole group from the hotel, namely 7 Germans and a few partners, friends or parents. At the clinic we were immediately welcomed by Serap, the contact in Izmir, who spoke perfect German, at least to my foreigner’s ears. She explained in details what the program of the morning and of the day would be.


Morning was dedicated to all the examinations required to make sure everything is ok to have the surgery in the afternoon. We chatted, read, played, etc. on and off in-between each examination.
Pupil dilation was of course big fun which we tried to capture on picture.

Look at these incredibly big pupils! Reminds me of something… ah, yeah, Muffin’s at night.

Once all the examinations where done and Wolfram had a talk with the doctor to confirm everything is ok and which Laser technique he would undertake, the whole group left the clinic for a quick lunch in a small place nearby. Believe it or not, in another waiting room were 20 Danish men which meant they had to rush the 7 Germans out early afternoon.
Everybody in the group looked pretty relax, but it could be as well the effect of the nicotine as most people were smokers and managed to smoke up to 5 cigarettes over 1 hour lunch. I felt like I was the only one stressed and with a huge nod in the stomach.


Back at the clinic we waited until it was Wolfram’s turn to go seeing the others go one after the other one. If that’s not a way to build up stress…
1 hour later Wolfram left and I was left alone in the waiting room, crossing my fingers everything would be fine. I was very worried, especially because he was border line because of his high myopia. And because every surgery has risk, even minor one.

30min later or maybe less he was back, face covered in Betadine wearing protective goggles over his red eyes and smiling!

He sat there for 15min resting.

We then took a taxi back to the hotel where Wolfram was supposed to rest, ideally sleep. When we arrived last night I wondered why people would choose Karaca hotel given everything is dark in it. It’s like they forgot that light brings positive energy. Today I understood why. After surgery the eyes are extremely sensitive to light and the dark rooms and hallways were helping.

It was 3pm and started a long afternoon in the dark. With no lights at all in the room, I experienced the importance of memory to replace sight. I also highly appreciated the computer and phone screens, as they kept me busy at least once Wolfram fell asleep.

Around 7pm Wolfram woke up, feeling better and hungry! Carefully we switched on the lights in the room, one by one until he could handle all of them. We joined the group for dinner at the hotel restaurant. It felt like a dinner with stars, with all those people wearing sunglasses indoor :)

I then took the opportunity to read Die Weisse Rose to Wolfram, in my best German (note to myself: Easy Reading books level A were easy, level B is a whole different story).