I finally got LASIK earlier this month and got to cross that off my 101 list.
I've been wanting LASIK for a while, but my eye doctor in Boise was really against it for some reason, saying that he had "seen too many go wrong." However, my eye doctor here said I was a good candidate, and the surgical center I went to agreed.
It was a little rough having to go back to wearing my glasses for five days before my consult. Then, once I scheduled my surgery for as soon as possible after the consult (another week out), I couldn't go back to wearing contacts. Wearing my glasses full time for a week and a half wasn't the most fun thing ever. I've worn glasses since third grade, but had contacts since sixth, and I would pretty much only wear my glasses at night before bed. So to go back to wearing them full-time was a bit hard. I forgot how easily they smudge! And they slid around a lot. Plus, I have seriously bad eyesight (-5 in one eye and -5.5 in the other, with a slight astigmatism in at least one eye), so not being able to see when I took my glasses off to wipe them, or just not being able to see clearly in my peripheral, wasn't fun.
But I made it through and got to surgery day. About an hour before the surgery, it hit me what I was actually doing and I got a bit nervous. I went anyways, and everything went really well. My dad and aunt actually watched. (My aunt was fascinated and my dad was having a hard time watching and was worrying they were hurting me.) I didn't feel a thing, as the numbing eye drops were great! The only thing that was a bit uncomfortable was them putting on the device to keep my eyes open during the surgery (my eyelids weren't numb). Other than that, it really was just pressure (and there were times the pressure made it so I could actually see stars). The smell of them lasering off part of my eye wasn't something I was prepared for. I was glad the doctor was talking to me the whole time, explaining what he was doing.
As soon as the surgery was over, I could see so much more clearly, though things seemed a bit foggy (like what happens if you're in a really humid sauna). Another doctor did an eye test. Though the prescription doesn't translate exactly to whatever 20/20 means, he said I had been at about a 20/600. I was at a 20/20 after my surgery. And at my one week follow-up I had this week, I was at 20/20 vision, and I was even able to make out a couple of letters on the 20/15 line.
It's incredible to be able to wake up and actually see! Modern medicine is amazing.
