As some of you may know I got intra-lasik done on my eyeballs about 3 months ago and I’m one of the unfortunate 0.1% of the people who have some kind of post operative complication. It’s not really that big a deal so I won’t go into it here. I’ll save all the gory details for another post. Anyways, my right eye still has some induced stigmatism which fluctuates by the hour. It’s more of a nuisance than handicap and I still see better now than before without glasses but I wish it would hurry up and get better already!
So last night I had this dream where I took my eyeballs out of my head and held them in my hand. I watched Minority Report again on Sunday so maybe that scene where Tom Cruise is chasing his rolling eyeballs down the corridor was lingering in my subsconscious. Even though I took my eyes out of my head I could still see perfectly. I looked at my eyes as they were leaking liquid and quickly becoming deflated like squashed grapes. Then when they finally dried out they looked like a pile of macaroni salad. Go figure. I couldn’t put them into my head anymore. Since I could still see perfectly I thought I didn’t need them but when I looked into the mirror I could see that without eyes I would not look attractive to the opposite sex. This was my first thought in the dream and probably what I would think if this happened in real life ;-)
Finally I found some small light bulbs and stuck them into my eye sockets. They fit perfectly but I didn’t have any pupils so it was very spooky. Thank god I woke up at that moment to find that I still had eyes and not a handful of macaroni salad. I will never be able to enjoy macaroni salad again.
While I would love to ditch my glasses, some of the horror stories I’ve read about lasik surgery will have me wearing them for the rest of my life. I know it works out well in the overwhelming majority of cases but I wouldn’t want to be a statistical anomaly.
Good luck with your continued healing (and avoiding the creepy macaroni dreams!).
Generally, all the forums about Lasik are full of people who have had some sort of complication afterwards so it makes it seem like those horror stories are more common than they really are. If you visited the clinic I went to the first thing that would impress you is the huge volume of people that are “processed” by the clinic. It’s a very big place and full of patients. Almost like the immigration office. They must perform at least a hundred procedures a day. At one point, I had a big bandage over my eye and while I was walking around the clinic I could feel that everyone was looking at me wondering “what went wrong with him” and I’m sure some people changed their minds when they saw me. But Lasik is now quite a routine procedure and while I have had some problems I don’t really regret getting it done. At the same time I wouldn’t be so quick to recommend either. I think each person has to spend time to do their own research and weight the risks.