For my Christmas present, I got a brand new set of eyes from John. Yes, you heard it right. New set of eyes! I had LASIK done over the Christmas break. I have always wanted to do it but the financial part of it was holding me back. Finally I saw that they have this Groupon deal for $1,950. I jumped right on it and bought it. I then told John that he doesn’t need to wreck his brain trying to figure out what to get me for Christmas. I have already decided it for him. All he needs to do is just to pay my credit card bill that I purchased it with. haha.. he basically was forced into it.
During the consultation, we found out that my corneas are irregular and then I am not qualified to do the LASIK Keratome. I was given a choice to do Intralase or PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy). You can read more about it here. They probably will explain it better than I do. I ended up paying $600 more to do the Intralase, where there is no blade involved. Well, the deal is not so much of a deal anymore… anyway, it would still be cheaper than not getting the Groupon deal at all.
I was advised not to wear my contacts 10 days prior to my surgery. I can’t drive after the surgery and for a couple days, was advised to take things easy. The first day, I can’t watch TV nor play with the computer. But I can pretty much resume my normal activities the next day.
I now can see without contact lenses and no more glasses! I love my gift this year!
source here.
2 comments:
Gosh, i just had a consultation with the eye specialist just 2 weeks back on Lasik! However, i was told tat i'm not a suitable candidate as my power is high and was recommended implantable contact lens instead. Have you heard of it? But it cost RM6.5k for one eye!!!
I read bout Lasik and your RPK and still cant fully understand the difrence. haha, will ask the optometrist on it...
Apparently there are some irregularities with my cornea that they can't use blade to cut the flap. They have to use laser to cut the flap. So no blade is involved with the Intralase Procedure. PRK- I heard it takes longer time to heal and they do one eye at a time. No blade involved either. They reshape the outside of your eyeball.
I have never heard of implantable contact lens. Sounds really high tech!
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