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I can see, Lord, I can see!
May. 27th, 2008 09:27 amGot my eyes lasered and now I have super vision! Seriously, I can see better now than I ever have with contacts or glasses, walking around the Arboretum with Cayetana I was picking out individual leaves on far away trees, cloud structures have this hyper-real sharpness and definition, it’s crazy. You know what it looks like, it’s kinda like the first time I walked through Best Buy and saw big screen HD television displays, compared to old TV sets, it’s like, woah.
I had the surgery on Thursday, Couplingchaos rented a car and drove me to the laser center in Waltham. I’m sorry if I sound condescending but I’ve never seen her drive before and she looked so darn grown-up, look kitty’s a big girl now! I don’t mean to offend any of my friends who choose to not own cars, I guess I still have that residual adolescent rite-of-passage connection to the driving ritual. Whatever. We were there for about two hours, they looked at my eyeballs, told me everything about the procedure, did the paperwork stuff. The head surgeon there totally looks like Bruce Campbell, which is pretty great. They gave me some valium to calm the nerves, then it was time to light me up. The whole procedure takes about five minutes, and, while it’s not painful at all, it’s very, very freaky. They press this plastic right onto your eyeball to hold the eyelids back and the eye in place, there’s an uncomfortable pressure and your vision goes away, then comes back, blurry and fuzzy. They use a laser to create a corneal flap, lift it away then use another laser to blaze the cornea into the correct shape. Dr. Bruce Campbell is talking in reassuring, soothing tones the whole time, I do my best to send my mind to A Happy Place and not think anything about eyeballs.
Then it’s over and I get up from the table, the doctor says congratulations and shakes my hand and I look at his face and it’s sharp and clear! I can see! I didn’t think it would be so immediate but holy crap I can see! I wear these dark protective sunglasses mainly to keep particles off my healing corneas, but I can totally see everything! They said I might have irritated dry eyes and fuzzy vision and point-source halos, but about six hours after the surgery my eyes feel like they’d never had anything happen to them. This is so awesome.
So, like everyone else I’ve talked to who’s gotten this done, I totally recommend it, thumbs up. It’s not cheap, since insurance doesn’t cover it, but you can use your tax-free health-care spending plan dollars, and they offer payment plans to spread out the cost. There’s different places you can go, my work’s vision plan hooked me up with this place cost about $5000. Kinda of expensive, but oh god so worth it.
I just want to walk around and look at stuff all day.
I had the surgery on Thursday, Couplingchaos rented a car and drove me to the laser center in Waltham. I’m sorry if I sound condescending but I’ve never seen her drive before and she looked so darn grown-up, look kitty’s a big girl now! I don’t mean to offend any of my friends who choose to not own cars, I guess I still have that residual adolescent rite-of-passage connection to the driving ritual. Whatever. We were there for about two hours, they looked at my eyeballs, told me everything about the procedure, did the paperwork stuff. The head surgeon there totally looks like Bruce Campbell, which is pretty great. They gave me some valium to calm the nerves, then it was time to light me up. The whole procedure takes about five minutes, and, while it’s not painful at all, it’s very, very freaky. They press this plastic right onto your eyeball to hold the eyelids back and the eye in place, there’s an uncomfortable pressure and your vision goes away, then comes back, blurry and fuzzy. They use a laser to create a corneal flap, lift it away then use another laser to blaze the cornea into the correct shape. Dr. Bruce Campbell is talking in reassuring, soothing tones the whole time, I do my best to send my mind to A Happy Place and not think anything about eyeballs.
Then it’s over and I get up from the table, the doctor says congratulations and shakes my hand and I look at his face and it’s sharp and clear! I can see! I didn’t think it would be so immediate but holy crap I can see! I wear these dark protective sunglasses mainly to keep particles off my healing corneas, but I can totally see everything! They said I might have irritated dry eyes and fuzzy vision and point-source halos, but about six hours after the surgery my eyes feel like they’d never had anything happen to them. This is so awesome.
So, like everyone else I’ve talked to who’s gotten this done, I totally recommend it, thumbs up. It’s not cheap, since insurance doesn’t cover it, but you can use your tax-free health-care spending plan dollars, and they offer payment plans to spread out the cost. There’s different places you can go, my work’s vision plan hooked me up with this place cost about $5000. Kinda of expensive, but oh god so worth it.
I just want to walk around and look at stuff all day.
