First of all: this is not about me, but it's the story of a friend of mine. Unfortunately, he died about two years ago (not related to this surgery), so he is not in a position to tell his story. As I'm not that much into laser corrections and all those 20/20 numbers (what do they mean?), there could be some errors in my story.
This guy wasn't really blind (I believe he had -5 or something) and he used to wear contact lenses. Some day, he decided to do that surgery, since he hoped to be able to do without contacts. He would do one eye at the time, but the idea was to do both eyes in one year since that was cheaper (something with taxes or insurancies I think). Anyway, after he had one eye done, he had the halos and bad night vision I read in other stories and his vision was not really clear and sharp yet. He had to do that eye again, but after the second operation, he got an infection in his eye that was really hard to cure and his eye was always red with blood. Overall, it took him more than one year for that one eye, so the total costs for both eyes would be higher (as the tax or insurance trick wouldn't work anymore).
Unfortunately, he is dead now (due to something unrelated to his eye surgeries), so I don't know if his eye infection would be cured and if he ever would be able to see perfectly without contacts or glasses, but I know I would never do such surgeries if there are safe alternatives (like contacts and glasses) as there is always the possibility that things go horribly wrong and you would end up seeing worse than you did before (and, as someone above me already said, glasses can be ugly perhaps, but they are protective as well; they've already saved me a few times from becoming possibly blind when some objects were approaching my eyes at a very high speed).
And yes, my eyes only need minor correction (-1; I can see perfectly without glasses when I'm indoor), so I don't really know how much troubles one has if he has -13 or something like that, but I think I would aways prefer the safe way of glasses and contacts.
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First of all: this is not about me, but it's the story of a friend of mine. Unfortunately, he died about two years ago (not related to this surgery), so he is not in a position to tell his story. As I'm not that much into laser corrections and all those 20/20 numbers (what do they mean?), there could be some errors in my story.
This guy wasn't really blind (I believe he had -5 or something) and he used to wear contact lenses. Some day, he decided to do that surgery, since he hoped to be able to do without contacts. He would do one eye at the time, but the idea was to do both eyes in one year since that was cheaper (something with taxes or insurancies I think). Anyway, after he had one eye done, he had the halos and bad night vision I read in other stories and his vision was not really clear and sharp yet. He had to do that eye again, but after the second operation, he got an infection in his eye that was really hard to cure and his eye was always red with blood. Overall, it took him more than one year for that one eye, so the total costs for both eyes would be higher (as the tax or insurance trick wouldn't work anymore).
Unfortunately, he is dead now (due to something unrelated to his eye surgeries), so I don't know if his eye infection would be cured and if he ever would be able to see perfectly without contacts or glasses, but I know I would never do such surgeries if there are safe alternatives (like contacts and glasses) as there is always the possibility that things go horribly wrong and you would end up seeing worse than you did before (and, as someone above me already said, glasses can be ugly perhaps, but they are protective as well; they've already saved me a few times from becoming possibly blind when some objects were approaching my eyes at a very high speed).
And yes, my eyes only need minor correction (-1; I can see perfectly without glasses when I'm indoor), so I don't really know how much troubles one has if he has -13 or something like that, but I think I would aways prefer the safe way of glasses and contacts.