It’s been about a month now since I got my vision corrected with laser surgery. If you want to read about the actual surgery, click here. I had my one month follow up the other day and things are looking awesome. The doc said at this point my eyes are healing really well. The first few weeks there was a lot of fluctuations in my eyesight, one eye would be better than the other and then they’d swap, but that has stopped. The haloes in my night vision are nearly gone. And I don’t need the eyedrops as much anymore, though I still use them every few hours. I can wear make-up again, though the first few times I did after the surgery I was worried I’d still hurt my eye. The day I dragged my eyeliner brush over my eyeball by accident proved to me that normal things would not hurt my eye and I got over it.

One month in, I still find myself clearing a spot on my nightstand for my glasses before I go to bed, but that’s starting to stop. I also still go to push my glasses up on my face and to take them off at night, but after 17 years with glasses, it’s understandable there would be a period of adjustment now that I don’t need them. I also have absolutely no clue where my glasses are at the moment. I have every intention of donating them, and I put them in the case so they would be ready to go, but then I promptly lost them. And for the first time in nearly two decades, that doesn’t send me into a panic.

Overall, LASIK was the best money I ever spent. It’s amazing to open my eyes in the morning and see everything clearly. There’s no dust or scratches to get in the way, just the crisp clarity of the world around me. When I’m walking in the rain, there’s no glasses to collect the drops on. No fogging when I come in from the cold. Anyone who is thinking of getting this surgery should definitely go for it. It might seem like a lot of money, but what you get in return is priceless. It may seem trite or cliche, but having my vision perfect for the first time in my memory has opened a new world for me. I haven’t accidentally shampooed when I meant to condition. I haven’t had to crawl under my bed flailing my arms around searching for the glasses I dropped and now can’t see to find. I haven’t had to shove my phone right by my face to see who’s calling in the middle of the night. I can just open my eyes and see. And it’s wonderful.