A blink, a cut, a flash of light — then you open your eyes, and suddenly you can see, after 12 years.
That’s what they’re going to do to me this Friday, and what they will do to accomplish that, in a nutshell: cut a flap in my cornea tissue (leaving a hinge to fold it back later), then use an excimer laser to vaporize the molecular bonds of my cornea at a fraction of the thickness of human hair. All I will see is a flash of white and orange light, and after 10 to 15 minutes, they will fold my cornea flap back into place, and I will have (hopefully) perfect eyesight. All that, while I’m awake.
And for the price of a MacBook Pro!
What I filled in for “Reasons for LASIK” on the form: “Frequently travel to developing countries — air pollution irritates contact lenses. Too vain to wear glasses.”
It’s sad that my self-esteem is inversely related to the weight on my nose bridge, but there is it.
(Apparently, I look _intellectual_ with my glasses. Pol Pot used to kill intellectuals in his ruthless Khmer Rouge regime, and how they picked out intellectuals was whether or not they wore glasses. Although as Ricky Gervais says, if they were so intellectual, take them off when you see them coming!)
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The End of Myopia /
Real Beauty /
Life After Visual Acuity /
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A blink, a cut, a flash of light — then you open your eyes, and suddenly you can see, after 12 years.
That’s what they’re going to do to me this Friday, and what they will do to accomplish that, in a nutshell: cut a flap in my cornea tissue (leaving a hinge to fold it back later), then use an excimer laser to vaporize the molecular bonds of my cornea at a fraction of the thickness of human hair. All I will see is a flash of white and orange light, and after 10 to 15 minutes, they will fold my cornea flap back into place, and I will have (hopefully) perfect eyesight. All that, while I’m awake.
And for the price of a MacBook Pro!
What I filled in for “Reasons for LASIK” on the form: “Frequently travel to developing countries — air pollution irritates contact lenses. Too vain to wear glasses.”
It’s sad that my self-esteem is inversely related to the weight on my nose bridge, but there is it.
(Apparently, I look _intellectual_ with my glasses. Pol Pot used to kill intellectuals in his ruthless Khmer Rouge regime, and how they picked out intellectuals was whether or not they wore glasses. Although as Ricky Gervais says, if they were so intellectual, take them off when you see them coming!)
possibly related
The End of Myopia / Real Beauty / Life After Visual Acuity / Twitter Updates for 2007-10-16 / Twitter Updates for 2007-11-14 /