Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of my Epi-Lasik surgery. I would still prefer to have my natural eyes and glasses back, but things are getting incrementally better. The moments during the day where my vision feels almost perfect are coming with more frequency. Every so often I will be able to wake up and open my eyes without putting eye drops in. And I believe that the relative humidity in San Francisco (i moved right next to the ocean) is better for my eyes than the dry air of Yosemite. However, my eyes will still feel sore whenever I’m washing or drying my face and press too hard on the eyelids–I really thought this would have gone away by now. My vision still gets blurry after reading for a few minutes, but it recovers much faster than it used to. And I have an emergency eye doctor appointment this afternoon, because my left eyelid is swollen. Weather it is from the blepharaitis, or just a bug bite, I can’t really tell, so I’m trekking over to the east bay to find out…
Just a word about health insurance — I had heard so many success stories about Lasik prior to getting the surgery, that I mistakenly thought I would be okay with leaving my job (and health insurance) a few months afterward. I would not recommend this to others, as it was problematic for me to qualify as an individual and I was not wanting to pay the $275 a month to COBRA. So now I’m uninsured, and hoping that my old eye doctor takes a little pity on me for not having steered me away from epi-Lasik in the first place.
