LADARVision CustomCornea LASIK by Alcon

I can see! Praise the Lord? Good dream? Someone smashed the mirror?
No…just a great eye surgeon who uses current technology.
Last year Dr. Peter Panton (
) said to me: «everyone thinks they’re the blindest people in the world… YOU actually are.» But I now have ²⁰⁄₂₀ vision in both eyes.
My prescription used to be –9 diopters, then I switched to gas permeable lenses and things improved to about –8. They explained that the gas perms flatten your eye a little.
I had this particular LASIK surgery at 4 p.m. on a Thursday in January. At 4:45 my husband led me to the car, and my vision was totally blurry. It was dark outside, and when we were almost home, I could make out the shop signs. Oh, Best Buy, you were never so pretty…
At 6:30, I could tell time from three feet away. At 8:30, I read my email. I was supposed to be in bed with my eyes closed, but this was too cool. I woke several times in the middle of the night to check out the digital clock — a lovely, crisper-​than-​usual neon by 5 a.m. I got up and drove myself to the doctor’s office (they do a next-​day check-​up)!
Since my prescription was so bad, I needed a lot of laser work, so I used wetting drops every day for about three months. I had night haloing for about 5 – 6 weeks, but it’s all gone.
The surgery itself was pretty easy. I was worried about that Clockwork Orange style eye speculum but the anesthetic eyedrops removed the blinking impulse, so not an issue. Nothing hurt at all, and even the pressure that lasted about 30 seconds per eye was ok.
Yeah, I had a valium beforehand.
The reason this surgery works so well is it uses a computerized map of your eye and corrects only the areas of your cornea that need it. So, if your cornea is perfectly flat, your vision is probably 20/​20, but if you were like me, your cornea has peaks and valleys like a potato chip — the surgery makes it flat. This procedure costs a few grand, but don’t go for the cheap, mall procedure.
Even though I’ve had perfect vision for fifteen months, for some reason I still reach to my face to take off my glasses at night.