Fool with frikkin' laser beams .....

So the good news alluded to in a recent post, what was that all about? Well I have had a bad man slicing my eye up with lasers and sharp knives.
In a nutshell I had contact lenses inserted INTO my eyes in front of the natural lense.

You can see all about the exact process here:
http://www.gimbeleyecentre.com/visioncorrectionoptions/implantablelenses.html

Jacqui was brave and watched him slice and dice the second eye, she described it as the wife in her was horrified but the engineer was fascinated :)

The itineray for the process was fairly epic.

September
8th pre op stuff
9th iridotomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucoma_surgery#Iridotomy
This was pretty uncomfortable, bascially it's a laser drilling through part of your eye to help ensure even pressure post-op. It feels like some flicking your eye many many times, they do this twice in each eye.
15th Right eye get's done. Many, many drops then an intravenous injectiont to relax me and the fun begins. The doctor makes an incision into the side of the eye and injects the lense which unfurls. He then makes another couple of small cuts to enable him to get at the lense and position it correctly. The operation bit takes about 20 mins and job done. Come out of surgery, recover a bit and get driven home by wife.
15th - 21st Recovering, my eyes are sensitive to the drops which dilate the pupils so I have scary eyes until the weekend. Very uncomfortable week with headaches eyeaches and just general fun trying to focus on anything. Lots of wearing sunglasses indoors, I'm cool.
22nd Right eye checkup, left eye mutilated while the wife watches.
23rd Left eye checkup.
29th Left eye checkup.2
And aside from literally hundreds of eye drops I'm done!

And this all means:

After 33 years of needing them I no longer need glasses, full stop, underlined. I can also see better than I could before while wearing glasses. To give you an idea I had roughly 20-50 vision before, possibly 20-40 with the best prescription possible. The optician was aiming for 20-40 with my new eyes and achieved around 20-30. For everyone like me who does not really understand 20-40 20-20 etc this means an extra line and a half on the magic chart.
This also means I feel a lot more comfortable driving = more driving for me yayyy!

One negative point I was not expecting is a reduction in my close range vision, I need pretty good lighting to read books, computers are fine they light themselves.

But weighing it all up it's a huge plus for me.