the eyes have it
3 January 2005 19:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jrtomI've been putting things in place to allow me to get laser surgery on my eyes for something over a year now. Today I finally made an appointment to get it done.
In my case, this is not going to be a trivial operation: my myopia is sufficiently extreme (about -12 diopters in each eye; I literally cannot focus two inches in front of my face) that they're going to use two different forms of LASIK (conventional and WaveFront) for the operation, and the chances that I'll have 20/20 vision afterwards, while probably better than 50-50, are not great. Hopefully the benefits will be worth the risk (and the cost)...but if nothing else, I should at least be able to function without corrective lenses, which I simply can't do now.
Crossing fingers...
In my case, this is not going to be a trivial operation: my myopia is sufficiently extreme (about -12 diopters in each eye; I literally cannot focus two inches in front of my face) that they're going to use two different forms of LASIK (conventional and WaveFront) for the operation, and the chances that I'll have 20/20 vision afterwards, while probably better than 50-50, are not great. Hopefully the benefits will be worth the risk (and the cost)...but if nothing else, I should at least be able to function without corrective lenses, which I simply can't do now.
Crossing fingers...
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Date: 3 January 2005 22:09 (UTC)I thought they couldn't do WaveFront if your eyes were too bad. (They did it on one of my eyes and not the other.)
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Date: 4 January 2005 08:24 (UTC)As for WaveFront: in fact what they'll be doing to me is 80% WaveFront and 20% conventional, in part because if they'd done all WaveFront then they'd have used more cornea up than they prefer. I'd considered doing IOL/ICL (intraocular/implantable contact lens) but I decided not to for several reasons: it doesn't correct astigmatism (of which I don't have a lot, but enough to be annoying), the potential complications are nastier, they only do one eye at a time (so I'd be half-blind for at least a couple of weeks), and Dr. Tooma hasn't done many of them. (Oh, and it costs a couple thousand more dollars.)
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