The Torrencians

Just wanted to let you all know that I will be AWOL for a bit. My PRK Laser Eye surgery is scheduled for this Thursday July 5. While I am looking forward to it, I also do have some trepidations of course. Supposedly the pain after PRK surgery is quite a bit more than LASIK and the recovery time is longer. I may not be able to get onto the computer for a few days until my vision is good enough again. It all depends how fast my eyes heal...

Hopefully I can make it for the Sunday GVG.

Best wishes on your surgery. Take it easy afterwards.

good luck with the process!

safe and speedy recovery man.

Good luck for a very successful operation!

Gyaah!... I hope it goes well!

I hope so too Eiko. Thanks everyone for your good wishes. I'll let you know how it went when I feel up to it.

so... how it go

Sorry didn't post back here afterwards. Was discussing with everyone in the guild online and such.

Bottom line. So far I am very pleased with the results! It has been almost 3 weeks now since the surgery and I am just now starting to see close to 20/20 which is a miracle considering how bad my eyes were before (-6 in left and -8 in right eye!). The healing is still ongoing with a very slight haziness at certain times of the day (mostly in the evening) and I am told not to expect final outcome until possibly even 3 months. But I can tell you that it is fantastic not needing glasses or contacts for the first time in my life since I was 7 years old!

The surgery itself was a bit uncomfortable but nothing too extreme. Not as painfull as I expected afterwards either. My vision was very blurry for the first week and moderately blurry for the week after that. I am only now about 18-19 days after starting to clear up nicely. If someone is able to get LASIK surgery instead they would of course bypass this long healing time and get to their final outcome much quicker. But I suppose I just need to be patient still and allow the healing to continue.

So far no complaints and I have no regrets doing it! Quite the opposite actually.

Well congratulations with the successful recovery.

Thank you sir.

whats -8. -6 mean? is that like 800/600?

Not sure how to describe it that way Skye..but basically if someone was standing 6 feet away from me I couldn't see the expression on their face or even recognize their face. I had really really bad eyesight.

hmm... ya when i dont use glasses, which i rarely do except in school, i walk around and cannever tell if somone i know is like across from me... and there goes the awkwardness of actually checking...