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Not much to report, really. The place that performed my LASIK surgery did the exam, which, ironically enough, meant that I spent about 1.5 hours more coping with the appointment (half an hour travel, an hour spent waiting), and got a less thorough evaluation than my usual optometrist would have given. (They didn't check my eye pressure, for instance, nor did they dilate my pupils so as to get a good look at the interior--and I wasn't impressed with how they checked my astigmatism.)

However, it seems clear (heh) that I can see 20/20, and have a decent crack at 20/15 (I got 4 out of the 5 letters correct with each eye, and 5/5 with both, with some effort). Not sure how much astigmatism I might have (see above). I still experience the halos around quasi-point-sources of light when my eyes are dark-adapted, but they're less pronounced, I think. I think that my night vision may be just a little bit worse (acuity, not contrast), but that's really hard to evaluate.

All in all, it's turned out well. Now I just need to hope that presbyopia fails to rear its ugly head for a couple of decades, so that I can get some use out of my factory-rebuilt eyes before they start deteriorating again. :P :)

Not much to report, fortunately.

As of Day 8, my vision is now nominally 20/20 in each eye--that is, it can't be made better by adding corrective lenses. I still can't exactly clearly see the 20/20 line, but as far as I can tell that's mostly because the haloing (brought on by the fact that the test involves a bright spot on the wall in a dark room) is fuzzing it out a bit. The haloing, as a temporary phenomenon (I hope), is actually occasionally amusing: my tennis shoes, in bright light coming in the window, look like a cheap special effect right out of that scene in James Brown's church in The Blues Brothers or something.

( again, mild squick warning )

One thing that may have helped me recover as quickly as I have is that I set several alarms per day to remind me to take my eyedrops--of which, for the first week, I had to take three varieties a day, four or more times a day, spaced out so as not to mutually interfere. (Amusingly, the anti-inflammatory is apparently the same steroid that body-builders use. I'll let y'all know if my eyes acquire bulging muscles. ;> ) Personally I can't remember to do this sort of thing without aid; the alarms helped me a lot.

For the first week, my eyes were a bit uncomfortable when I woke up; apparently this is because they don't get enough oxygen (for the healing) while my eyes are closed. This has tapered off in the last couple of days, though, probably because the flap has now entirely closed (if not completely finished healing).

My optometrist is sufficiently tickled pink (his phrase!) by how this has turned out that I wonder, a bit, how well he was expecting it to have gone. *wry smile*

Thus far at least, I'd recommend Dr. Tooma at TLC (Newport Beach) for LASIK. (Not necessarily for IOL/ICL, though--he'll take your money to do it, but he hasn't done a thousandth as many of those as he has of LASIK.) And definitely Dr. Fisher for an optometrist--he's been very helpful, informative, and supportive. I appreciate the fact that he's willing to go into as much detail as he has, even when the information arguably isn't very useful to me. :)