Lasik

[TwoRails]

Glad you are still here mbossman2, and relatively not seriously damaged. Good warning you have for others to wear their gear.

[down_shift]

MBossman2, I use to ride (streetbike) to, I wrecked twice, while wearing my gear! Gear is definitely the way to go, I'm not a big gear natzi, and I didn't always wear my gear but I tried to as much as I could. Logged 17500 miles in a year then sold it.

As far as the lasik eye surgery goes, I don't regret it one bit. I now have 20/15 vision and it's awesome. I always hated wearing glasses, specially when I ride or when I play sports. It's definitely worth it.

I"ll describe the procedure. First you go in for a consultation and they will tell you if your a candidate or not. If you are you decide if you want the surgery and if you do you will come in one day before the surgery and do some pre op stuff. The day of the surgery they dialate your pupils and give you a valume(sp?). Then they numb your eyes (you can't feel a thing), they use a "microkeratome" to cut a "flap" from your cornea. Then your vision goes black, mine went black for about 5 seconds in each eye... scared the piss out of me but the doc said its normal and it came back shortly after. Then the doc pulls the "flap" back and you have to look at a laser and then it starts resurfacing your eye (you can actually smell it burning your eye to). Then after the laser he puts your flap back in place and then puts like a patch thing over your eye and then does the next eye. After the surgery you go back into the pre op room and they check your eyes and then you'll leave with some funky lookin goggles to protect your eyes from sunlight and from you rubbing them. They give you a little bag with antibacterial eye drops and steroid drops. That's pretty much it, hope this helped anyone that's looking into seriously getting lasik, its awesome!

[David M]

Down shift,
Thanks for report on your first hand experience. I am more willing to try it now. Just curious, what do they use do keep you from blinking?