I Can See Good
On Tuesday I had LASIK eye surgery at Hoopes Vision and my vision is fantastic! No more contacts to dry out my eyes (or to replace), no more glasses to slide off while I’m playing foosball or to remove while I’m wrestling my boys. It’s great.
I’ve been wearing contacts and glasses since high school, when I realized I could hit a baseball better while wearing contacts. Before Lasik my vision was near sighted with a prescription of -2.0 in both eyes.
With our tax return this year, I finally got the ok from the wife to get it done. I was on the phone within seconds scheduling an appointment. I’d heard good things about Hoops so I gave them a call and checked it out. The entire process was fantastic, from all the assistants to Dr. Phillip Hoops, Jr. Everyone was very professional and the process was very quick.
I won’t go into the graphic details of the actual laser cutting and burning stuff, but if you are interested I’ve posted my video. Sped up 3x and set to a new favorite artist of mine, Bon Iver playing Flume.
The technology for doing this is absolutely amazing and I recommend it to anyone who wants better vision without contacts or eye glasses.
Update: I forgot to mention that they gave me a Valium to make the whole process more relaxing. FTW!
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Mike Harmon
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Mike Harmon
Mar 5th, 2008
erat
My wife had her eyes done at Hoopes. For about three hours they burned like hell. She thought she was going to go nuts, then all of a sudden they stopped burning. It was really, really weird.
She’s happy she had the procedure done. It looks like you didn’t get the Dremel when your cornea was cut. She had some kind of suction thing stuck to her eye (two black eyes ensued) and a mini-Dremel looking thing with a disc blade sliced horizontally to make the cornea flap. She said it shook her eyeballs. Ewwwwwww…
I watched the whole thing with a Jennifer Aniston lookalike talking me through it. I swear, I almost gerbed twice. As long as she’s happy, though, I’m happy.
Mar 21st, 2008
Paul Mayne
My eyes were mildly dry for the first week, now it’s been 2 weeks and they are a tiny bit dry when I wake up and at night. But for the most part it’s perfect. I’m really happy with the results.
Mar 21st, 2008
CJ
Holy crap, that video was NUTS.
Apr 2nd, 2008
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