I’m too irresponsible to keep track of glasses, and if my vision were any worse, I’d need corrective lenses to legally drive. I’m going to see Dr. Coleman, who is one of the first doctors to perform wavefront guided IntraLASIK. Intra means they use a femtosecond laser to create the flap, and wavefront guided means " the ophthalmologist applies a spatially varying correction, guiding the computer-controlled excimer laser with measurements from a wavefront sensor." I’m not sure exactly what that means, though.
I just got to my parents’ house. I bought a motorcycle trailer on the way over here, so I can haul my bike to Albuquerque with me in the morning, and up to Santa Fe on Saturday. I’ll park it all at the hotel tomorrow, and walk to the doctor’s office around noon. Wish me luck!
Ohhhh, I hope your experience is awesome! Mine was really, amazingly life-changing - I hope that your doctor does a spectacular job, and you enjoy the walk home (in huuuuge sunglasses) afterwards.
How soon are you planning on riding your bike afterwards? Have you talked to your Dr. about eye protection and whatnot for high speeds? (That’s something I never even thought about, but it seems to me that you might need really good goggles or similar, if you ever ride without a face shield, so that there’s a near-zero risk of the wind damaging the flap in the first few days post-op.)
I’m not supposed to play rugby or ride my bike for a week. I’ve been driving around this evening, and aside from the halos, which are supposed to go away in a week or so, I was pretty impressed. I’ll head back to my hotel and pop some Ambien in an hour or so, and wake up for the follow-up (which they didn’t tell me earlier would be the next day) in the morning.
I would say the pain is minimal, it “hurts” about as much as having an eyelash in your eye, but I have plenty of numbing drops, so it’s not a problem.