the eyes have it

[jrtom]

I'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...

Comments

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard that. :) How bad was your myopia before, and what are you at now?

[darcydodo]

I can't precisely remember; I think one eye was -6 or -7, and the other -9 or something. But I'm not positive. Anyway, I now have 20/20 vision.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

So, not quite as bad as my sister's. But bad enough that it gives me hope. :)