1.   A tiny saw blade is cutting into my eyeball, making the corneal flap.

2.   Carter puts the corneal flap back in place, brushes it gently and says the procedure went great.

3.   Does your eye surgeon use a state-of-the-art microkeratome, the instrument used to create the corneal flap?

4.   He creates the corneal flap with the Microkeratome, peeling back a thin layer of my cornea.

5.   In the end, that way was lifting the corneal flap, scraping away the debris and irrigating the heck out of it.

6.   The doctor cuts a corneal flap by slicing most of the way through the top of the eyeball.

7.   The Microkeratome cutting the corneal flap, the staccato laser bursts, the smell.

8.   Then Durrie deftly brings the corneal flap back down, and it adheres like Velcro.