LASIK is an outpatient procedure. Someone else must drive you home because your vision will be a little blurry right after surgery. You will lie down in a reclining chair. The surgeon will place anesthetic drops in your eye position your head under the laser and place an eyelid speculum (retainer) under your lids to hold your eye wide open. In LASIK the surgeon creates a thin flap in the top of the cornea folds it back out of the way uses the laser to remove some corneal tissue and then puts the flap back in place. If you're having PRK no flap is created: The laser simply removes the outer layer of the cornea (epithelium) which grows back after surgery.