Michael R. Hicks » Lasik http://www.kreelanwarrior.com Tales and Musings Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Getting My Eyes Fixed With Lasik http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/07/getting-my-eyes-fixed-with-lasik/ http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/07/getting-my-eyes-fixed-with-lasik/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:23:37 +0000 Michael R. Hicks http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/?p=649 It’s T-minus two hours and counting until I’m supposed to show up at the eye center to get ready for my lasik surgery. I’ve put this off for years, not so much because of the cost (although it’s not cheap), but because I’m just a huge chicken when it comes to anything about my eyes.

But after having gone through three pairs of glasses (two of them lost to the ocean – go figure!) at great expense in the last several years and having to suffer being effectively blind until I could get new ones made, plus the advances made in lasik technology, I figured it was time.

Just a note about some of the new bells and whistles that are available nowadays: the two major advances over lasik of even a few years ago are bladeless lasik, where they no longer use a physical instrument to cut the corneal flap, but use a laser; and wavefront analysis. That’s the supremely cool thing now: before the surgery, they take a different (non-cutting) laser that can identify all the little aberrations in each eye. Then they take the “map” that it makes and program it into the cutting laser. The result is that you get a completely customized lasik job for each eyeball. It’s more expensive, of course, but I figure that if I’m going to do this, I’m going to go the whole way.

The only thing that I really had to laugh at in the pre-op information was the little note that I might smell something odd during the procedure. Yeah, it’s my cornea getting zapped! D’oh!

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