My bad-ass corneas

[hollsterhambone]

Finally, finally I had my eye appointment with the Mayo people today. I had to reschedule the first one because the person who sold us our house wanted to close on my appointment day. I had to reschedule the second one because I wanted to drive down and see Ellen while she was in Florida. So almost three months later I got to see a real MD who

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[honey_doomelon]

Eye problems freak me out.

I had mine corrected via laser surgery. They were -5 each before. The results were great except 2 years later I have a slight astigmatism in my right eye (not a complication, just a natural progression of my eyes I guess), and would love to have that gone. Problem is that I had a year of perfect vision in both before it developed, so I was just like "DOH!" because I knew how good it could be to just see perfectly without correction.

[hollsterhambone]

What a bummer to have the astigmatism develop after your surgery! And that's amazing that with -5 you were able to get to (or even close to) 20/20. I'm -8 and -7.5 or thereabouts. My glasses prescription is scarier (-8 and -9). I wonder what it would be like to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and be able to see. Just recently I stopped turning on the bathroom light before going to bed. I've switched to night lights, instead. I figure if I'm going to be blind as a bat, might as well get used to it. Is it bad to stop resisting?

Anyway, I want to get the pressure under control so I can have LASIK, too. I can't even imagine what life would be like without thick glasses or special-order contacts. I'd be cool with some light-weight glasses I had to wear for driving or reading. That would be awesome!

[honey_doomelon]

Lasik has come a long way. They are correcting vision of people who are legally blind due to myopia etc these days.

-5 was bad enough, it still meant I couldn't see a thing. I wasn't eligible for my new job without the surgery, but I did the surgery as my first step, rather than wait and see if I needed to. For me, a big driving force was that I love backcountry pursuits, and the reality of my vision was that if something happened to me in the woods or on a lake I could die simpy because I couldn't see. So I wanted to do it even if I didn't get a job at the end.

[parab0lic]

I've had eye surgery galore. When I was born, my lenses were free-floating in my eyeball. They weren't attached to anything. For the first twelve years of my life, I was legally blind. Right before I started middle school, I had the old lenses taken out and ones that closely resemble contacts put in. They pretty much just sutured them in there, gave me a hell of a lot of pain killers, and sent me on my way. When I was fifteen, the lens in my left eye popped loose and I had to have the surgery in that eye done again. I got to miss an entire month and a half of school. :D

As you can see, I can totally understand why the idea of retinal surgery doesn't appeal to you. I've had enough of people messing with my eyeballs, thankyouverymuch.

But yay for free glasses prescriptions. I need new ones myself. I'm going blind in my old age.

[hollsterhambone]

Holy cow you've been through the wringer! There are two things that bother me about eye surgery. 1. Being awake for some of it and having to deal with not being able to close my eyes while things are happening to me. And 2. Having to give up reading, typing, looking, seeing, etc. for a period of time after the surgery.

[parab0lic]

At least I was knocked out cold for my surgery. Thank goodness for anesthesia.

And I can barely tolerate the pressure tests, much less anything else being done to me while I'm awake. No way.