Lasik Blues

I had my four-month check up today and my right eye just keeps getting worse for distance, but it's super fantastic for reading. Would you believe that I may have to go back to glasses for driving at night? I'm bummed. Really bummed. I probably shouldn't be because I can finally read the computer screen without getting a headache. And really since I spend most of my day working on a computer, it's probably a good thing. The doctor says at my age, it's probably a blessing in disguise. Now I'll probably get five additional years without reading glasses. My fear is that it will keep getting worse. It takes six months they say for your sight to stabilize, it's only been four. I'm not getting the glasses for a couple months to see if it's stable. It would really piss me off if I had to buy two pairs of glasses after the promise of no more glasses! Imagine the money you will save in eyeglasses they said. HA!

They offered to do touch up surgery, but that seems silly right now. I can still see pretty well. 20/30 combined for distance. But it's like 20/15 out of my left eye. It makes up for the crappy right eye. Plus, I really want to be able to read and they think the touch up surgery would put me in reading glasses immediately since the left eye can barely see to read. That sucks.

The bummer part is that it's my right eye, my dominant eye. Which means the eye I use to look through the view finder in my camera. So that makes taking pictures a little odd. I adjusted the diopter on the view finder, but it still feels like it's off. Thank heavens for auto focus, I can at least use that as a backup when I am manually focusing.

Well, I'm not the poster child for Lasik, that's for sure. Makes me wish I went the cheap route instead of finding the best surgeon in the metro area. Then having a crappy result would have been expected. Now I paid big money, drove for hours to my appointments and still have one crappy eye, but at least I can read this as I type it.