Feeling like a Superheroine!
It's goodbye to glasses and contact lenses! Yours truly under went LASIK and now has superhuman vision! (ok, that's not quite true, make that perfect 6/6 myopia-free vision) It's time to save the world!
Yes, you are now looking at an enhanced human being. Like in Deus Ex, I have enhanced my vision by ridding my eyes of myopia. After over 20 years of wearing glasses/contact lenses, it's a great feeling to be liberated. No more fiddling around with slimy little flippy floppy lenses or glasses that severely limits my peripheral vision (bad if someone attacks you from the side).
The procedure was a little scary as your eyes are open the entire time and I could see what was going on - the surgeon took two pointy instruments (I think he called them "spears" - ouchie) to cut around the cornea. All went blurry the moment he flipped it up. Then the red and green lights did their dance around my eye, in a hypnotic fashion, kind of like beneath a UFO, I imagine. Then the high pitch "chew chew" of the laser and the smell of burnt tissue. But no pain. Not yet.
The next few hours after the anaesthesia wore off were pretty traumatic. It was like I was hit by a tear bomb - my eyes could not open and I teared non-stop. I didn't even remember crying so much and so long at one sitting even after a breakup. There were literally puddles on the floor and half a box of two ply tissues were mobilised to soak it all up. Boohoohoo. And more boohoohoo. And like a true blue (ok black) goth, even the littlest ray of light kills me. It kills me! I had to wear really dark wraparound goggles they gave me (again, kind of like in Deus Ex) on my way home, then I had to draw my curtains, close the door and stay away from all light until nightfall. I squirm the moment the curtains flap open in the wind and admitted even the tiniest sliver of light, so I had to turn on the airconditioner. The feeling was slightly unearthly - it was cool, dark, with the constant pain and tearing plus I had to lie flat on my back coffin-style so that my cornea will stick. The masochist / goth in me kind of enjoyed it - it's so vampiric and Anne Rice-ish.
But now, my eyes have kind of recovered, save for a burst blood vessel on my right eye which allows me to give select people a good fright by rolling my eyes - that will take a week to clear up, says the doc after my eye test. My vision is not impaired though, but I am supposed to rest my eyes as much as possible.
I must admit I was nervous during the operation. I realised I stopped breathing and I could hear my heartbeat in my ears. Looking back now, it's pretty worth it. But will I go through it again should my myopia return? Weeeell, give me some time to recover from this trauma, and I hope my courage will return when that time comes.
It's goodbye to glasses and contact lenses! Yours truly under went LASIK and now has superhuman vision! (ok, that's not quite true, make that perfect 6/6 myopia-free vision) It's time to save the world!
Yes, you are now looking at an enhanced human being. Like in Deus Ex, I have enhanced my vision by ridding my eyes of myopia. After over 20 years of wearing glasses/contact lenses, it's a great feeling to be liberated. No more fiddling around with slimy little flippy floppy lenses or glasses that severely limits my peripheral vision (bad if someone attacks you from the side).
The procedure was a little scary as your eyes are open the entire time and I could see what was going on - the surgeon took two pointy instruments (I think he called them "spears" - ouchie) to cut around the cornea. All went blurry the moment he flipped it up. Then the red and green lights did their dance around my eye, in a hypnotic fashion, kind of like beneath a UFO, I imagine. Then the high pitch "chew chew" of the laser and the smell of burnt tissue. But no pain. Not yet.
The next few hours after the anaesthesia wore off were pretty traumatic. It was like I was hit by a tear bomb - my eyes could not open and I teared non-stop. I didn't even remember crying so much and so long at one sitting even after a breakup. There were literally puddles on the floor and half a box of two ply tissues were mobilised to soak it all up. Boohoohoo. And more boohoohoo. And like a true blue (ok black) goth, even the littlest ray of light kills me. It kills me! I had to wear really dark wraparound goggles they gave me (again, kind of like in Deus Ex) on my way home, then I had to draw my curtains, close the door and stay away from all light until nightfall. I squirm the moment the curtains flap open in the wind and admitted even the tiniest sliver of light, so I had to turn on the airconditioner. The feeling was slightly unearthly - it was cool, dark, with the constant pain and tearing plus I had to lie flat on my back coffin-style so that my cornea will stick. The masochist / goth in me kind of enjoyed it - it's so vampiric and Anne Rice-ish.
But now, my eyes have kind of recovered, save for a burst blood vessel on my right eye which allows me to give select people a good fright by rolling my eyes - that will take a week to clear up, says the doc after my eye test. My vision is not impaired though, but I am supposed to rest my eyes as much as possible.
I must admit I was nervous during the operation. I realised I stopped breathing and I could hear my heartbeat in my ears. Looking back now, it's pretty worth it. But will I go through it again should my myopia return? Weeeell, give me some time to recover from this trauma, and I hope my courage will return when that time comes.
"Bring Me To Life" ~ Evanesence
how can you see into my eyes like open doors
leading you down into my core
where I’ve become so numb without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home
how can you see into my eyes like open doors
leading you down into my core
where I’ve become so numb without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home
my eyes didn't tear as much, though my right eye was more emo and teared more than my left, dunno why... guess each eye reacts differently.
it's quite amazing huh... sometimes i still catch myself automatically reaching out for my spectacles in the morning, haha... or doing the "propping-up-specs" at my nose-bridge action, hahaha...
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