I have worn glasses ever since the 3rd grade. It was always something I hated. I used to always wish I listened to my mother telling me to stop sitting so close to the television…About a year ago I really started to become annoyed by wearing glasses. Contacts weren’t an option for me because they dried my eyes out and I didn’t have very good vision with them in. The current glasses I had were black Versace’s. I loved the design just didn’t love them on me. They were boxy and took over my whole face. I told my parents I was thinking of getting eye surgery. Before jumping into something as serious as this my mom asked my eye doctor for some doctors he would recommend.
We were given a doctor in Syracuse who has had a very good reputation. After going for our consultation and completing all of the pre-surgery tests an appointment was scheduled for my surgery. Being the nervous worrier that I am I actually cancelled the surgery the night before! I was freaking out and got scared that I would lose my vision because there are a lot of risks that are associated with this type of surgery.
The next morning I called back and asked if it was too late to change my mind again…luckily it wasn’t! I was so nervous sitting in the waiting room. I kept having doubts and felt like running out of the room and just calling it quits. However, I stuck it out and went through with it.
The whole process took under 20 minutes. I couldn’t believe how fast it was. During the process my mother began crying and the nurses sat with her. To try and comfort her they said “He wouldn’t perform the surgery on her if he didn’t feel she was really a candidate.”
I was given a stress ball to squeeze during the process. I think I squeezed the life out of that thing! The only part that hurt was when the suction cups had to go on my eyes. Other than that I had no pain what so ever. I can still hear the frying sound of the machine. It was a loud buzzing noise that to this day I can still hear clear as a bell when I think of the procedure. When everything was done my doctor took a picture of the two of us. He keeps an album with all of his patience which I think is a nice sentiment.
Let me just say after the surgery it was NOT fun. Typically it takes approximately a few weeks to a month for people to heal. In my case since I had PRK surgery rather than Lasik it took me from June 9th to the end of August before my sight came back. Thank goodness I wasn’t working. I couldn’t drive anywhere which was frustrating I had the most horrendous head
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