My eyes! My eyes!
My eyes are fine. More than fine, actually. I went to my eye doctor today for my one-year post-surgery followup visit.
With both eyes combined, my vision is 20/15, which is better than 20/20. The doctor was very pleased, and said that if my vision had stabilized this well a year after the laser surgery, it was a good sign for the future.
I can’t imagine being able to just wake up in the morning and be able to see good. I’ve thought about laser surgery, but two problems:
1 – Money.
2 – The idea of having my eyeball cut open and a laser cutting my eye seriously freaks me out.
That’s awesome your vision has improved so much. Have you had any side effects? Pain? Halo’s around lights at nighttime?
Who knows, maybe one of these years I’ll get brave enought to do it.
Well, the surgery is getting cheaper every year, so it’s likely that you’ll be able to afford it sometime in the next few years.
As for the freaking out? They gave me a Valium before surgery, and I was still terrified that I was going to move my eyes at the wrong time and ruin my eyesight. Here’s something funny: the handed me a stuffed animal to hold onto during the surgery, and it did help, mainly by giving me something to clutch onto.
As I recall, there was not any post-surgery pain. There was a bit of a gritty feeling in my eyes for a few days, and for a few weeks I felt like there was something in my left eye. A little annoying, but not a real problem.
I drove for the first time without corrective lenses the day after surgery, so my downtime was minimal.
There is a slight halo effect around lights at night, but I got that with glasses before, so it’s not a big deal. (I did go with a more expensive surgery because my pupils dilate very wide, so they needed to correct a larger radius than the cheaper surgery would allow. With the cheaper surgery, the halo effect might have been so bad that i couldn’t drive at night.)
The most annoying part about recovery was wearing plastic eye-guards taped to my face every night for two months, so I wouldn’t do anything in my sleep to disturb my eyes as they healed.
I’m with Kevin. Money and creep factor are my reasons for not doing it, too. Maybe when it’s cheaper (and more common) I’ll do it. The stuffed animal was a good idea.