It’s been about 6 months since my last update. I’ve been visiting the office monthly so they can check to see if my vision is stable enough for the follow-up procedure. Well, after 6 visits, they’ve finally declared me ready, and I’m all scheduled to go the second week in November. Hopefully this means I’m 4-6 weeks away from 20/20 vision!

I continue to read and use the computer just fine. I’m probably 20/30 in my left eye and 20/40 in my right eye. Interestingly, the left eye just kept on improving over the last 6 months, with both the nearsightedness and the astigmatism steadily improving. The right eye seems about the same. When I want to focus in on far away details, I close my right eye.

Aside from not being 20/20, my chief complaint is still seeing halos around bright lights. As I reported earlier, it’s the worst at night around bright point light sources like street lights, night lights, even the LED from my clock radio. They mostly like startbursts these days. I’m hoping the follow up procedure will reduce this. Both the clinic and Darren say that astigmatism can explain at least part of the phenomena.

Brad has expressed some interest in getting the surgery. But a lot of people are still on the sidelines. Overall, I’m happy with the results to date, and I’ll have more to report in a month or so. I guess there is still the worry about the downsides. I wonder how many personal injury lawsuits have been filed by overanxious lawyers for failed LASIK surgery patients? (And I wonder how sensitive Google AdSense is to words in text? Will I have to saw "personal injury lawyer" more than once to trigger a relevant ad?)

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