A month after my Lasik surgery, the doctor is still saying my eyes are healing “perfectly.” I’ve got 20/20 vision in my left eye, which used to be useless beyond a couple of feet, and 20/25 in my right eye, which had an astigmatism that I forgot about because it wasn’t enough to bother me much. And I’m only slightly worried that I’m going to break my corneas when I rub my eye (the literature I read said over and over again DO NOT RUB YOUR EYES AFTER THE SURGERY and scared the crap out of me that I’d totally wreck my corneas if I forgot). The doctor told me that I can’t hurt my eyes that way, but he doesn’t want me doing it anyway. He would say that. He’s an eye doctor.
I’m definitely getting used to having to wear reading glasses for things like (sigh) cutting my nails. But the upside is that I cooked latkes as my synagogue holiday party for two hours and didn’t have to clean spattered oil from my glasses afterward. (And may I say: Yum. The latkes team was Sarah and me, and our latkes were awesome.)
So now I’m about to hop in the shower and head with Mom and friend to the mall that contains my favorite hairdresser. I’ll get my hair done, they’ll spend Mom’s birthday gift cards at J.C. Penney, and I’ll pop into Brookstone and Godiva and see if there’s anything there that I like. I’m pretty sure I’ll find something at Godiva. As for Brookstone, well, that’s my favorite grownup toy store. It’s hard to resist.
My brother-in-law ripped his cornea while taking off the eye bandages after lasik surgery. He needed corrective surgery.
I’m very glad you waited until now to have lasik. (I don’t have any need of lasik myself.) Why? Lasik machines have went through at least two generations that I know about, maybe more, each time improving the success rates. The complication rates of 1% or 2% were really too high considering how one could just wear glasses and contacts. It’s lottery with eyes. However, I think the odds are better now than they used to be.
I wish I had the nerve to get lasik or PRK surgery myself.