Even a Chicken Can Receive Lasik Surgery
If you take the time to read any of the message boards or chat rooms on the Internet about Lasik surgery, you will wonder how anyone could get the courage to schedule a Lasik procedure, and why on earth they would want it. The various Lasik clinics sound anywhere from impersonal to something similar to Dr. Frankenstein's lab, and the Lasik procedure itself sounds, well, surreal. It seems like the only people that would get Lasik are those with such bad vision that they cannot get out of bed without their glasses on.
If you have a few minutes, I would like to provide you with my story of how LASIK helped me. First off, I don't have a really great vision but it isn't horrible 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. So the fact is I really didn't need LASIK surgery, I just figured that it would help to make my life a little simpler. 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. I've never been able to make a pair of glasses last very long, and I am frequently and a lot of dirty areas, so contact lenses never work very well either. For these reasons, Lasik looked very appealing.
After reading the paragraph above you might think that I'm kind of athletic, and it's true that I am, so you might be thinking why it would be afraid of such a thing as a little scalpel? LASIK really doesn't use a scalpel, but instead it uses something called a microkeratome blade, but it is still an incredibly sharp object that is cutting my eye during the LASIK procedure. Nowadays Lasik physicians can get a laser to cut the flap in the eye, which is more than a little 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.
After spending the time and going to talking to three different LASIK surgeons, every one of them told me that because of my age at 28 and my relatively good health, and with my mild to moderate nearsightedness that I was a near perfect candidate for LASIK eye surgery. After discussing this procedure with the surgeons, I scheduled my operation with the surgeon that had by far the best record, and who spent the most time going over the process with me.
I didn't feel any pain during the LASIK surgery, though I took the sedative that they offered me and I even accepted the comfort of a little teddy bear that they offered. The only thing that was really strange about procedure that I didn't really care for it was the smell of burning hair. I am sure that it was my eye that was burning. I am kind of glad they didn't tell me to expect that before the Lasik procedure, I am not sure I would 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.
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