I had my three month assessment yesterday with the laser eye people. I knew before they told me; My vision is getting worse! It is not, as my sister suggested, “all in my mind”. Give me a little credit for fuck sake. You don’t imagine you’re going short sighted, you know you’re going short sighted.
I knew it was going to happen though. They knew it was going to happen. We just didn’t know it would be this soon. They thought at least a year of perfect sight and then it would hit. Not three months of okay sight and back to glasses.
Fuck! Glasses. I’ve not a pot to piss in and now I need to buy a new pair of glasses. Four hundred euro before Christmas on a pair of glasses that were wrong. Go back, change them, still wrong but luckily I didn’t have to pay for SpecSavers cock up. Then five grand on laser eye surgery that has lasted only three months. Now it’s more money to fork out for a new set of glasses that will, hopefully, stop the headaches and the eye pain until August comes around.
August! August shall bring the ordeal of going through that operation all over again. I resigned myself to the fact that it had to be done. It’s what perfect vision entails and if I want perfect vision I’ve just got to grin and bare it.
Well fuck that! I’m in enough pain right now with my capper leg, the thoughts of that surgery where I have to smell myself burn and have a week of feeling like some swine has just thrown gravel into my eyes is not appealing. Right now I feel like I’d gladly go back to my glasses, give them a hug and swear I shall never leave them again.
And I probably would too if I hadn’t had forked out five, count it! Not one, not two, but five thousand euro for the pleasure of smelling myself burn, feeling like some swine threw gravel in my eyes and a week of pure and utter boredom where I can’t even glance at my mobile screen to read a text message.
No! I can honestly say it’s not about the money. I wouldn’t go back to glasses for anything. I liked the freedom that came with 20/20 vision and it’s heart breaking that my sight deteriorated so soon. I only get one more operation. If my sight deteriorates again so soon after the next one I’m going to be inconsolable.
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May 31, 2009 at 10:20 pm
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Compare Laser Eye Surgery
May 16, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Great blog post. We at Compare Laser Eye Surgery, read it with interest and agree that the quality of information that you receive before refractive eye surgery should be comprehensive and of the highest quality, including the possibility that it will not be a permanent success. The techniques have improved since the date of your post but patient information still remains a priority. Hope things have improved for you since then.