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fandomsecrets2014-06-09 06:46 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-06-09 06:46 pm
[ SECRET POST #2715 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2715 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Tales of Innocence]
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[Transamerica]
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[Final Fantasy VIII]
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[Interview with the Vampire]
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[Andrew Lloyd Webber]
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[Critical Miss]
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[Great British Menu/Emily Watkins]
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[Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls]
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[Pacific Rim]
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[Star Trek TNG]
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[Homestuck]
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[The Man From Nowhere]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 058 secrets from Secret Submission Post #388.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Laser Eye Surgery
My vision pre-surgery was terrible; -6.75, -6.50, to the point where I was functionally helpless without my contact lenses in, and I was getting really tired of wearing them/caring for them. I hated glasses, too. I'd been considering the surgery for some time beforehand but I need to wait for my vision to stablize (it finally had for a few years prior to the surgery).
It cost about $3500, but I had the cadillac package so to speak, done by the clinic's best surgeon (who does the eye surgeries for the professional hockey players in the area) plus free lifetime revisions as needed for bladeless LASIK, but you could get the one-time-only bladed version by the clinic's residents for as little as $1200.
The surgery itself was over in seconds, and though it definitely did hurt, I had it planned out so I just went to bed right afterwards and slept (they give you plastic goggles to protect your eyes while you sleep) for about 12 hours afterwards, so they healed really well. Afterwards my vision healed to about 25/20 within a month, which I was okay with because hey - no glasses! There was also some very noticeable haloing effects around lights at night.
After about six-eight months, my vision was 20/20 and the haloing was almost gone. At my most recent checkup this April my right eye was 10/20 and my left was 20/20, and the haloing is completely gone. It's wonderful. My night vision is shit, but it was never very good to begin with, so I don't know how much to blame on the surgery.
My surgeon said that I was in the perfect age group (late 20-early 30s) where just about everyone's eyes have stopped changing, but there's still decades before age-related decline starts to take effect. According to him I'll probably have 20/20 vision well into my 40s, and I have enough tissue left for revisions when age-related decline does start to happen. So that's something to keep in mind if you're older/younger.
tl;dr A++++ would recommend