Doug had PRK a few weeks ago. He was unable to do LASIK because he has thin corneas so this was his only option. For LASIK the cut a flap in the top part of your eye and fold it back to do the laser, in PRK they dissolve the top layer of your eye so they can do the laser! Crazy right. PRK is supposed to be more painful and take longer to get your eyesight where it will be.
We drove down to Salt Lake on February 11th to have the surgery done. I was expecting to have a blind husband the entire weekend. We dropped him off and two hours later picked him up. He said he could already see better than he could before without his glasses, and there was no pain. Here is the video of them doing his right eye: warning it is kind of gross if you don't like this kind of stuff, like me (I couldn't watch it all).
Doug says it felt nothing like what the video shows. He was just staring at a green light and it just got clearer and clearer as it went on.
Then he had to sleep with these on his eyes for 5 days...
So all weekend he could see great and there was no pain. Then Saturday night he woke up in pain and had to put ice on his eyes for a few hours. The next day he couldn't see great and Monday his vision was terrible, but he went to work anyway! Tuesday he had his follow up appointment and they said his vision was 20/40 which is legal to drive. Our camera is broken so this is the best picture we have without his glasses, which he shot with his gun.
So for the next month he vision with continue to get better and better, hopefully! I guess we will see in about a month!
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That sounds like fun...I guess. So do you still feel like you need glasses? I put mine on even when I am wearing contacts because I am so use to them. Also think I can hear better when I am wearing glasses, like they are antenna or something.
oh, and by the way I beat all you times on Mario kart :)
Chad, I accept you are a superior racer however all and most are different things.
The comment is meant more of a challenge than gloating. I am sure that you could best me if you want, and have the time. It has taken me a while, and some I only won by hundredths of a second. On mine it says I have beaten ALL your times, am I wrong?
On ours is shows that Doug still has you beat on Sherbet Land. But that is the only one.
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