Monthly Archives: January 2012

PRK Diary – Laser Eye Surgery – Through the first weekend

These were written afterwards, as most of my vision was pretty blurry for those couple of days. Day 3 (Sunday): Woke up feeling… not too bad.  Light sensitivity was gone for the most part, and vision wasn’t terrible.  Chilled out during the day, napped as much as possible, and watched Hulu Plus shows.  Highly recommend [...]

PRK Diary – Laser Eye Surgery – Through the first weekend

Day 2 (Saturday): Siri was my best friend. Read out e-mails, gave me some laughs while i tried random shit with her. “Klaatu barada nikto” was the first. “Make me a sandwich” followed. Definition of crazy is asking the same thing and expecting a different response, right? Morning: The little bits of light coming through [...]

PRK Diary – Laser Eye Surgery – Through the first weekend

Day 1 (Friday): Morning: No pain. Vision feels about 20/120 with some ghosting; slight haloing, limited starburst and light halos, mild light sensitivity, in that bright areas get blown out. Feeling astonishingly good! Went to the morning checkup, and walked home. A little windy, but no pain. Had my nice sunglasses on along with the [...]

PRK Diary – Laser Eye Surgery – pre-op and day of

Pre-Op First time i’d ever gotten my eyes dilated, and turns out i have more of an astigmatism than previously thought — only notable because my previous presription was putting it in the sphere and not in the cylindrical column.  What the difference between those are i also only recently learned, primarily due to the [...]