Jenn's eye problems

Ok, remember I said in my last entry that my girlfriend Jennifer (soliloquy) had something funky with her eye? Well, while we were in Utah her eye flared up again and got all pink. We went to Wal-mart optical center and the doctor there said she needed to see a better eye doctor and may have to have surgery. The guy said that the optometrist would probably have to do punctual irrigation and redundant caruncle tissue excision. She has this strange "eye flap" (a little dawb of connective tissue) in the corner of one eye that has her tear duct. In addition, her eye constantly waters and once and a while flares up by getting red, itchy, and poofy looking.

When Jenn looked up punctual irrigation on the interwebs, it seemed like it was only usually used on very young children, and that it was very rare in adults. Is this true? I'm confusled.

Jenn will have to go to the regular doctor when she gets insurance sometime next month. Has anyone here ever had eye surgery? Does it hurt? Jenn is worried they are going to stab her in the eye with a needle, and it'd be nice to have some reassurance that they won't do that.

There are a couple of people with eye smarts on my f-list aussiegirl17 & emerald_7 are the two I think of, but any help anyone can offer would be much appreciated. Everyone on my f-list is awesome smart! ;D