Even Someone Who's A Frady Cat Can Receive Lasik Surgery

By Author: Frank Froggatt
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If you have done any research or looked around at some of the message boards and chat rooms on the Internet concerning LASIK surgery, you are probably wondering why anybody would want to get LASIK surgery in the first place let alone schedule a procedure. Many people make the LASIK clinics sound like they are some type of Dr. Frankenstein's lab, and they make the procedure itself sounds kind of surrealistic. With all this bad juju going on you'd think that the only people that would be interested in getting a LASIK vision surgery are the people who can't even move about the house without their glasses on.

If you are willing to listen I'm now going to give you my story of how I came about choosing LASIK. First of all, my vision is not good, but not terrible either. I can actually go to movies and see well enough to enjoy the film without glasses, but I need glasses to drive in order to read the street signs far enough away to act on the information. So for me, Lasik was not necessary, but I figured it would simplify my life. I love the outdoors, and very frequently I like to take the mountain bike rides as well as ...
... spending some time backpacking and climbing hills. I've never been able to make a pair of glasses last very long, and I am frequently and a lot of dirty areas, so contact lenses never work very well either. For these reasons, Lasik looked very appealing.

After telling you that, you probably think that I'm at least a little bit athletic, and it also probably wondering why he strong athletic guy would hesitate under such a little thing as a small scalpel. OK, technically Lasik does NOT use a scalpel but rather a "microkeratome blade", but it is still a sharp object approaching my eye as part of the Lasik procedure. Nowadays Lasik physicians can get a laser to cut the flap in the eye, which is more than a little better than a sharp blade. This is the fact that nobody is perfect, and I myself have had way too many accidents to feel comfortable with somebody getting near my eye with a sharp object.

After spending the time and going to talking to three different LASIK surgeons, every one of them told me that because of my age at 28 and my relatively good health, and with my mild to moderate nearsightedness that I was a near perfect candidate for LASIK eye surgery. After these discussions I went ahead and scheduled my LASIK procedure with the surgeon had by far the best track record, and who coincidentally spent the most time explaining all of the ins and outs of LASIK to me.

The Lasik surgery was not painful, though I accepted nearly everything they offered to give me comfort, including a sedative and a teddy bear. The only thing that was really strange about procedure that I didn't really care for it was the smell of burning hair. I'm pretty sure that it was my eye. It's probably a good thing that I didn't know about that smell before I went into the procedure, because if I had I might not have gone in.

It's been a few years now, and I suppose I was a perfect client for LASIK, as they still have 20/20 vision and it has remained stable for a long time now. I say that if you are a good candidate for a Lasik vision correction procedure, grab that teddy bear and go on in.
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