A friend said to me a few months ago that after I get laser eye surgery, it’ll quickly feel normal and I’ll soon forget what it was like to not be able to see without glasses.
He was right, and it’s kind of unfortunate. I’ve already moved on from the whole ordeal, except for the strict eye drop schedule. And this is not even two weeks since I was stressing out because I was healing slower than expected. I don’t know, I was sort of expecting a long period of cheerfulness once I could see clearly, but it may have only lasted a few minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, it is awesome. Getting up no longer involves having to feel around on the bedroom floor for where my cat knocked my glasses off the bedside table sometime in the night. My lenses don’t fog up when I enter buildings from the cold outside. But it hasn’t directly produced any fun, and where are all those hot guys I was supposed to be attracting now?
As for my sight itself, I am not yet 20/20 (and may never get there), but my eye doctor said I could drive without glasses. And that’s what I’ll tell the officer when he pulls me over for driving a stolen vehicle without a license.
The only downside to the PRK so far is really more my insomnia’s fault, and it has to do with the fact that I can’t hide the under-eye circles (well, with makeup, sure, but I still have to acknowledge them). When I wake up in the morning I can see myself clearly, and that’s just cruel. Glasses mean never having to say you’re tired.
This blog post title was one of the questions in my mind while recovering from the PRK. Nobody talked to me about the inevitable scent of burning cornea, not my close friends who’d had it done, nor the laser eye centre itself. The smell is rather unpleasant, especially since you know it’s yours. It goes away pretty soon, but still, why the secrecy about it? It’s not like it’s a huge surprise, what with there being lasers pointed at you. I dunno, maybe a bit of warning would’ve been nice.
