Photorefractive Keratectomy
Not exactly my procedure
I’ve had terrible vision for as long as I can remember. Yeah, I was the kid with the big bottle bottom glasses that were constantly breaking and therefore requiring various temporary methods of repair including the iconic white tape. Where did this white tape come from? I don’t remember…
Anyway, as a grown up (I use that term loosely), I’ve acquired an interest in things not compatible with extremely poor eyesight: swimming, motorcycles, and adventure travel to name a few. Sooner or later, I had to take action. It was actually while watching an episode of Lost when some castaways had to swim with their eyes open into a river to find a cave where they hoped to procure a nuclear device that I turned to my woman and said, “I can’t do that.”
The next day, I was at TLC uptown discussing my options. I opted for LASIK, but had to put surgery on hold until I ran that half-marathon. Once that was out of the way, it was two weeks solely wearing glasses only to find out at my last pre-op eye exam that my eyes are a slight bit screwed up… just enough to make my doctor not want to risk LASIK.
I felt terrible… but opted for PRK instead. Same thing, but with a longer recovery and some promise of discomfort/pain. (That said, since this was the only U.S. military approved treatment up until just recently, I’ve taken to calling my eyes “military grade”.)
It’s 2 days later and I’m writing this without contacts or glasses. My eye exam on Friday showed me at around 20/40… and it should only get better over the course of the coming weeks! No pain (yet?)… just dryness and a slight sensitivity to light.
I need to remember to do something worthwhile with these new eyes of mine!
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