Sunday, November 04, 2007

Still here, still seeing perfectly!

It's been 4 months since I had laser eye surgery and I can put my hand on my heart and tell you it is the best money I ever spent.

Just today I was leaving the supermarket and I saw a girl wearing glasses - thick rimmed trendy ones - I was looking at her thinking she looked cool but I'm so glad I don't have to wear specs any more. She was looking at me, god only knows what she was thinking (probably why is that girl staring at me?). Anyway what I'm trying to say in a rather verbose way is that I am not a glasses wearer any more. I don't have that affinity with other glasses wearers that I once used to have. I look at them and I wonder if they've ever considered surgery.

Don't get me wrong, anyone comfortable in glasses or contact lenses would be sensible to stay as they are. By comfortable I mean both mentally and physically. But for me, contact lenses had become more and more uncomfortable over the years, to the point where I was blinking awkwardly because my eyes felt dry all the time.

I've even forgotten the discomfort of the surgery. If I had to go back in time to before the surgery, knowing what I know now about those few minutes where I lay thinking "Oh my god what am I doing this is torture!" and the months of perfect vision afterwards, I would 100% go back and do it again. Easy for me to say with my fighter pilot eyes I know!