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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Also there's this. It is surgery and there are risks.
That's going to drastically vary from person to person.
An ex of mine had it done and when she was back at home she was in excruciating pain and couldn't stop crying for basically the whole day after. We even called the Dr back to make sure it was normal.
And Mike here from the strip also seems to have had that experience.
Or the flatness of their corneas. *sigh* First time anything on my body has been described as "flat" and wouldn't you know it, it's a bad time for it...
Got those washboard corneas.
I talked to an alright Optometrist and a very good Ophthalmologist. The consensus is they could make my eyesight better but I'd still need glasses, just a lower prescription, and I was like nope.
For a long time after healing even, I found myself slightly disappointed, because while my pre-surgery vision WITH glasses was better than my post-surgery vision.
That said, a few years out from it, the benefits of not needing glasses are worth it.
First time the eye sand feeling and extreme sensitivity sucks, I think it lasted 3 weeks for me. The hardest part is if you shower and get water in your eyes your first instinct is to squeeze your lids and rub your eyes, but you learn right quick that is a bad idea.
But the 2nd time that didn't happen at all, it was maybe a couple of hours of sensitivity and almost full recovery the next day.
I left a bit out. In addition to severe myopia, I have pretty bad astigmatism (my current optometrist is the first ever in my life to actually have a pair of the proper power toric trial lenses on hand). Before the my corneas were declared a total loss, the pitch was that they would do both an intraocular lens and PRK. The whole thing would have been staggeringly expensive, so it was just as well they changed their mind and kicked me out.
It would have been nice if they'd just looked at the flatness first, before running me through just about every eye machine in the shop over the course of an hour. Or that I could have known before driving there through heavy snow.
-Tycho Brahe
The irony is, I can read just fine without glasses. it’s just distance I have a problem with. So, yeah, fuck that noise. I didn’t get contact lenses, in the first place, just to have to put glasses on anyway. Don’t we have a permanently-crewed space station and probes exploring Mars? We’re living in the future here, give some options that don’t suck.
As a 44 year old, let me just say it's a matter of time for you. Sad, but true.
Now I have so much curve on my lenses that I can't use plastic frames (lenses will eventually break free of the clips). I don't know about your scenario, but that's what I was told, 2 months ago by an ok optometrist.
Also, I wouldn't get PRK if at all possible... that sounds like the hell Gabe was describing.
LASIK =cut cornea flap, zap cornea with laser to shape into lens, put cornea flap back on. Cornea heals the (very fine) cut quickly.
PRK = Dissolve your outer cornea with acid, shape underlying cornea into lens. Wait for your cornea to regrow the outer layers (which is super painful!).
This is akin to getting surgery normally vs just removing the skin in the way and waiting for it to grow back. Ow.
Last time I mentioned it was probably almost 2 years ago and the eye doc just recommended a place where I could get evaluated. I guess he didn't say that they could correct astigmatism, but at the same time he knew I had it and didn't say, "Yeah, they won't be able to do it with your eyes." I haven't looked into it yet mostly because for the past few years I've been working full time during the day and taking classes in the evening, so I haven't felt I have time to deal with it.
That, and I feel I'll probably be fine unless society crumbles and my glasses get broken. At that point I'd be easy pickings just like so many glasses-wearing characters in movies.
-Tycho Brahe
But you'll finally have time!
I understood that reference.
-Tycho Brahe
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PRK still has a market for people that do contact sports that can dislodge the Lasik flap. Being hit in the head AND getting your eyes fucked up is adding injury to injury. So for some people the less pleasant recovery is worth it to avoid future trouble.
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I've been considering LASIK or similar for years, mainly for vanity
Once I have the money I'll check it out properly
It might not last forever, but I've been wearing glasses for over a quarter of a century, and I don't get on with contact lenses, so it'd be nice to see without glasses for a while, and then start over with a not-terrible prescription that doesn't make my eyes look tiny
Oh, that’s well understood, believe me. I have no illusions about the ability of science to forestall the inevitable indefinitely, unlike the popular but less-than-scientific periodicals which have been claiming that we are one generation away from immortality for too many generations to sustain the credibility of such claims. And if we fix everything else, then there’s the brain. A neural network which is like the grid in a game of Minesweeper, that inevitably ends even if none of the pathways result in immediate destruction.
That said, in the age of CMOS and CCD sensors, and contraptions that correct the blurry vision of a space telescope sufficiently to immortalize on digital “film” the awesome fecundity of the stellar nurseries of the very early universe, while also taking stunning pictures of objects many orders of magnitude closer to us, I do kind of expect the science of vision correction to advance beyond, “oh, that only slightly inconvenient thing we gave you fixes your vision one way, and hoses it another way, so put on these things Benjamin Franklin wore to see up close.” The alternative being a fallback to human Kryten’s zoom mode of moving one’s head closer to the object.
Maybe that’s unreasonable. Blame it on the crankiness of my old age, which the average in many industrialized nations is steadily marching towards, and in some cases, has stolen a march upon by quite a number of years.