Still VERY happy. I can see better than I did with my glasses, but sometimes my vision isn't as good, although still great (especially if I'm due to put the eyedrops in). The doc said that was normal and it would take about 4 weeks to completely stablize. If I go out at night and look at a sign that's lit up, I have a hard time reading that, and that's also normal, along with halos around headlights which will last for a few weeks. Lars, I'm going to be 45 in March (I think your brother and I share the same bday ;). I am starting to see a difference in my nearsightedness, which started about six months ago. I haven't really had to use reading glasses in the past, but before the surgery, I would flip my regular glasses up to read something small. Now I just hold it out at about half an arm's length and I can see it clearly. I tried my dollar store reading glasses this morning and I could see well to read the back of a medicine container. I went into this knowing it wouldn't help me if I needed reading glasses. Yes, I really do feel like it's a miracle!

UPDATE: Went to practice session #3 at the eye doctor and was able to get contacts in and out of both eyes. The left eye was harder. The way I got them in was to NOT look in a mirror, pull down just the lower lid, and stare straight ahead. Another optician joined in to help. She saw my nails which were as short as they can be. She said I need to pull the contact down with the pad of my middle finger and then try to pinch the contact off my lower lid. They were out of the lenses with my prescription so they sent me home with just practice lenses until a trial set come in. I need to practice everyday putting the contacts in and out. I am so relieved to have gotten this far! I'm actually glad to just have the practice lenses for a while. I forgot to ask about the mono or multifocal. Thank you all for the help. I did make a word document with all the advice. I may need to refer to it sometimes if I run into trouble. edited to add: I ask about those plunger things to put in contacts. Those are only for hard contacts which I will not be getting. This post was edited by debrak2008 on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 7:20

I had Lasik about 11 years ago. I'd always had far sightedness plus astigmatism. Before I got Lasik, my distance prescription had gotten to a little over +4 for farsightedness (+2 more for the reading prescription) and around -2.5 for astigmatism plus about. About the only thing I did without glasses was take a shower. It was getting hard to get glasses. Contacts didn't work well for that much farsightedness and I wasn't able to wear them any more. Because my amount of correction was unusually high and at the edge of what Lasik could do at the time, the head of department at the local UC Med Center agreed to do my surgery. It has worked out wonderfully. My uncorrected distance vision for years after Lasik was better than my pre-Lasik corrected vision. For some years afterwards, I only needed glasses for reading. Off the shelf drug store readers were fine for the correction I needed. And in decent light I could even read without glasses - so if I forgot them I could read an ingredients label in the grocery store without glasses. My eyes finally changed to the point where I need a distance correction for farsightedness and a tiny bit for astigmatism. Two years ago I got my first prescription glasses since the surgery. But the prescription is much milder than the old one. If something happened to my glasses on a trip, I'd be able to make do with off the shelf ones until I got home. I'm glad I got the surgery.

Well, if windows are the "eyes" of a house's facade, then maybe Lasik would be better than conventional rehabbing of the sashes. No more digging out rock hard putty and glass shards! Maybe the OP posted here by mistake? Personally I'm not giving up my eyeglasses which offer my peepers a teensy bit of protection when I absentmindedly start working without my safety glasses on (more often than I should, I confess). Molly~