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February 28, 2006

Considering Lasik

I've worn corrective lenses most of my life - since Jr. High, I think. I've gone from glasses to rigid contacts, to soft contacts and back - after a particularly pernicious eye infection - to glasses. They're mostly just a given - but lately I've started resenting them.

I hate wearing glasses in the rain - they get wet, you can't dry them, and you walk around with streaks in your vision. I hate wearing glasses on a motorcycle - they limit your effective peripheral vision, and even your forward vision when your posture causes you to look over them. I hate wearing glasses when working on the car/motorcycles - they always slip at the least opportune moment, or stop you from quite getting your head where it needs to be to see the thing you need to see. They're just bloody inconvenient.

Until I had an eye infection that took months to treat, I didn't mind contacts - but at this point, once bitten, twice shy.

Over the years I've contemplated laser surgery several times - and each time, after talking to my eye doctor, chickened out. The quotes success rates for lasik are over 99% - but lots of people are having it - which means a non-trivial number are failures.

I could really live without glasses, though...

Posted by dberger at February 28, 2006 6:31 PM

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Posted by: Hendel at March 1, 2006 9:09 AM