My Lasik Surgery Which Corrected My Mediocre Vision

If you have done any research or looked around at some of the message boards and chat rooms on the Internet concerning LASIK surgery, you are probably wondering why anybody would want to get LASIK surgery in the first place let alone schedule a procedure.

Many people make the LASIK clinics sound like they are some type of Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, and they make the procedure itself sounds kind of surrealistic. With all this bad juju going on you’d think that the only people that would be interested in getting a LASIK vision surgery are the people who can’t move about the house without their glasses on.

If you are willing to listen I’m now going to give you my story of how I came about choosing LASIK. First of all, my vision is not good, but not terrible either. For instance, whenever I go to the movies I don’t need to wear my glasses, but when I drive around town, in order to see the street signs correctly to react in time I do.

LASIK for me was not a necessity, but I just figured that it would make my life a lot easier. I love the outdoors, and very frequently I like to take the mountain bike rides as well as spending some time backpacking and climbing hills.

Glasses do not last long with me, and I am frequently grinding into the dirt which is not the best situation for contact lenses. LASIK eye surgery look very appealing to me for these reasons.

After telling you that, you probably think that I’m at least a little bit athletic, and it also probably wondering why he strong athletic guy would hesitate under such a little thing as a small scalpel. Technically, LASIK doesn’t even really use a scalpel but instead it uses a thing called a microkeratome blade which is still an incredibly sharp object that is quite close to my eye as part of the procedure.

These days however, LASIK surgeons don’t have to use that blade either, as they can do the cutting with a laser which is much better than a sharp blade. This is the fact that nobody is perfect, and I myself have had way too many accidents to feel comfortable with somebody getting near my eye with a sharp object.

Well I went and talked to three completely different and independent LASIK surgeons, and every one of them assured me that as a 28-year-old man in a really great health, with mild to moderate nearsightedness that I was probably one of the best candidates for a successful LASIK eye surgery procedure. I decided to schedule my Lasik procedure with the one that had the best track record, and coincidentally took the most time to explain everything about Lasik to me.

The Lasik surgery was not painful, though I accepted nearly everything they offered to give me comfort, including a sedative and a teddy bear. The only strange thing I remember about the Lasik procedure itself was a smell, something vaguely like hair burning. I am sure that it was my eye that was burning. It’s probably a good thing that I didn’t know about that smell before I went into the procedure, because if I had I might not have gone in.

It’s been a few years now, and I suppose I was a perfect client for LASIK, as they still have 20/20 vision and it has remained stable for a long time now. Despite any naysayers out there, if you have been deemed a good candidate for a LASIK vision correction procedure, grab a hold of that teddy bear and get it done.