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I remember one of the last times I could see clearly without glasses: I was in elementary school and lunchtime was ending. I can't explain why, but before heading back into class, I took a few moments to stare out at the grassy field in amazement of how crystal clear it all looked.
Unfortunately, the following year, I was told by an optometrist that I would need to wear glasses for the foreseeable future.
This wasn't a terrible revelation, and at first, I actually liked the idea of wearing stylish glasses. To clarify, this was before the time that glasses were properly in style, but it was after the time that you would be picked on for being "four eyes".
However, it didn't take long for me to realise that glasses did not suit my active lifestyle nor did I particularly enjoy wearing them; my days at the skate park became more cumbersome as I had to choose between my glasses falling off mid-trick or navigating around and not being able to see the ground clearly. Those of you who used to or still do skateboard will know our mortal enemy,
The Pebble.
Whilst I switched to contacts a couple of years later, the desert heat would make my eyes very dry, thus making the contacts uncomfortable to wear. Essentially, all of the main alternatives had drawbacks that were never quite the same as seeing clearly out of your own two eyes.
Without digressing any further, years went by, and even though my lifestyle involuntarily became much less active, I never got used to wearing glasses or contacts. Glasses easily got smudged and scratched, contacts easily dried out, and both of them needed to be adjusted from time to time.
Now, I humoured the idea of laser eye surgery in the past, although my initial impressions of it were quite poor. I had relatives, friends, and optometrists all tell me the same list of reasons why I should never get it.
- "You would have a flap on your eyes that would never heal."
- "It's really invasive and they'll cut your eye open."
- "It's not permanent and it'll wear off in a couple of years."
- "It's too expensive, and glasses are cheaper."
Now, I'm not normally one to believe something just because a handful of people said it, but I figured that since using glasses and contacts wasn't the worst thing in the world, I may as well continue using them.
Enter 2022, I'm working on the computer just like I do every day and something just finally made me sick of wearing glasses. I don't know if it was the hazy fingerprint, the very small scratches being magnified on the lenses, or just adjusting them on my face; but one of those was the straw that broke the camel's back. I figured that since I've reached every other main goal I had for my life, why not focus on my vision goal?
As it turns out, laser eye surgery has unsurprisingly come a long way since I was a child: the techniques have improved, the process has improved, and the lasers have especially improved. After reading this, I decided to take the plunge and just get the surgery, and that's when I found out that there was a newer surgery called
SMILE that was exactly what I was hoping to find. You see, with SMILE,
there was no flap like there is for LASIK,
it was minimally invasive similarly to PRK,
it doesn't "wear off" because that's not how the surgery works;
and whilst still expensive, it was in the cheaper price range that PRK is in and it's cheaper than buying glasses and contacts for the rest of my life.
I did a virtual consultation for it last week, so 6 hours from now, I'll be getting a lift to Los Angeles and in 12 hours, assuming everything goes well, I will no longer need to wear glasses or contacts to see clearly.
Personally, I think this is going to be a real eye-opening experience.
Excuse all of the puns, they really were unintentional... until they weren't.
