| I'm A Procrastinator... |
[Mar. 17th, 2006|10:27 am] |
Actually I'm the QUEEN of procrastinators. If there is a way to avoid doing something I will find it and then perfect it. I know I do it, I also know I shouldn't. It's way counterproductive. I've needed new glasses for several years now, I keep putting it off. I have thought about looking into Lasik but that requires even more effort then getting new glasses. You have to go to an eye clinic just to see if you are a candidate and then there's the whole money thing. Lasik is fairly expensive.
So, back in late January I went to my companies holiday party (on a sunday in late january the christmas spirit is pretty much gone buy hey they serve free booze so of course a bunch of people showed up). I ended up talking to a guy there who had lasik done a few weeks prior. He was going on about how great and easy it was. We also ended up talking about the broadway play 'Wicked'. I had read the book (which I didn't like) and he said that the music of the play was so much better than the book and that he would burn me a copy and send it to me (we don't work in the same building). The next day I got to work and the CD was waiting for me. I was stunned he actually remembered it, cause I wouldn't have, not immediately at least.
I saw him again a few days after the party and asked him where he had the surgery done at. He told me the name of the place and I looked it up on line. They had a website cause you know in this day and age everybody has a website. Got the phone number and decided I would call the next morning (I found the number at midnight and was sure nobody would be there then). The next day I woke up and looked at the number..."You know...I have a lot of stuff to do today, tomorrow...I'll call tomorrow." I realized shortly thereafter that tomorrow would become next week, next week would become next month, next month would become next year and in the end I would end up calling sometime in 2008. At that moment I decided to break the cycle, picked up the phone and called right there and then. Made a appointment for the next week.
So I go to the office which is over 60 miles from where I live where the proceeded to take all this tests, long story short I am a candidate for lasik surgery. okay, great, and it's going to cost me $3500, not great. They did have cheaper options mind but do you really want to go cheap with your eyes? The plan I chose has a lifetime option on it so if I ever need to have it done again it shall be mostly free (or at least not $3500). So then comes the tasks of finding financing, luckily for me they had in-house financing where all you need is $600 down and then you have to make monthly payments which they take directly out of your checking account. But it has to be paid for within a year. So, I decided I could do this, called and made the appointment. A week later I get a call from their office, they are discontinuing their in-house financing option....shit.....but because I made the appointment already I can use that option. If I had procrastinated I would have been so thoroughly screwed.
I made the appointment in March because there was no way I was getting any time off in february. So yesterday my and I drove down there for my surgery. I had been fine all week, wasn't freaking, wasn't worried until I got to the door of their office. My main concern was that they had decided that I couldn't use that old option and would then be SOL. They hadn't, I paid them $2000 down and sat in a room waiting for my turn. By the time it was my turn I had managed to freak myself out something pretty good. The nurses there were totally cool and extremely helpful. There was no actual pain but I got real hot and then real cold, usually when this happens I really pass out. Luckily this time I did not. The whole surgery took about 15-20 minutes. After the doc checked my eyes to make sure the cornea flap was where it was supposed to be (namely on my eye:-) and then sent me home. I couldn't drive which is why my mom was with me and they give you a small dose of valium to relax you so I was real sleepy on the way home. I could see after the surgery, not perfectly, not as good as I could with my glasses but I could see better than I had without my glasses.
Today I went back in for the day after visit where they check to see how your doing. The Optometrist checked my eyes and now I have 20/20 vision with no glasses, contacts or anything else. My eyes feel as if I am wearing contacts and there dry and stuff but that's normal and should go away within' a week. And then there's the eye drops, I am getting so good at putting in eye drops it's not even funny.
You know this turned out to be longer than I anticipated...sorry |
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Wow, congratulations! I have been wanting to have Lasik done for quite some time myself now.
Let me ask you, was it all laser guided or do they take a scalpel to your eye to cut past the cornea? I have an immense phobia about sharp objects being pointed at me, lol.....
I'm glad you went thru with it, this is most awesome.
Take Care.
I believe it was laser guided when they cut the cornea. I know the doctor had to move the cornea back to expose the eye itself but I couldn't actually tell (and I didn't ask) if the initial cut was laser guided or not. And I was a bit freaked out at that point anyways. I still can't believe I actually did it!!!
Wow, what a scary, amazing leap you took! I don't know that I'd be brave enough to do what you did. This is awesome news - my dad has had surgery on his eyes a few times now, but that's just because he's got bad eyes. Glaucoma is always going to be an ongoing problem for him.
I'm happy to hear you're doing well! I miss you. :)
I did have second thoughts about having it done, fortunately my second thoughts came as I was laying on the bench after have both eyes numbed and about to have the procedure done. Bit to late to really do anything about it then:-) | |
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