LASIK makes me cry

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I guess what pisses me off it all the people who come up to me and ask “Why don’t you get LASIK?” It’s none of their fucking business. As someone else said, the ads are everywhere and everyone who wears glasses and contacts have heard about it. Maybe I should ask them why they don’t get that ugly mole removed from their chin or why that bitch over there doesn’t get her moustache removed or why that asshole doesn’t get his rotten teeth fixed. Do these people go up to flat chested women and ask why they don’t get implants? Do they go up to fat men and ask them why they don’t work out at the gym more?

Maybe I’m afraid my vision will end up more screwy than it already is. Maybe I’ve got some rare condition that makes me a poor risk for the surgery. It’s none of their goddamn business and I shouldn’t have to explain myself.

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I am not a good candidate because no doctor wants to operate on a filmmaker who has one really super bad eye. If I could though, I would certainly do it and I would certainly cry with joy afterwards.

I wore glasses from around two to around ten. My eyes were so bad that glasses create tunnel vision for me because the edges distort the image. Glasses put me in a semi-funtional state. Beyond that is the teasing and torment that reduced me to tears on a daily basis that I still associate with my contacts. They put me in contacts as soon as it was at all possible.

Things I would love to do:

  1. Make love, seeing everything, and fall asleep without rushing to take out my contacts.
  2. Not be in constant risk of losing something essential to my functionality that costs over two hundred bucks to replace (I need lots of custom grinding and that is expensive).
    3.Be spontanious and be able to stay places overnight without bringing my contact gear.
  3. Play in the ocean and be able to see. Dive in the waves. Snorkle without fear.
  4. Surf. Kayak. White-water raft

There are a lot more. These are things that I will never know. Contacts put me at the daily risk of devestating infection, monetary loss and unclear vision. It sucks. I would give just about anything for clear vision.

I resent you telling me that my wishes are invalid. Fuck off.