No Lasik for me!
So, I spent a grand total of 5 hours doing all kinds of tests last Thursday, in a – failed – attempt to get consultation for Lasik surgery.. Guess that ain’t gonna happen to me any time soon.. See, Lasik surgery is a kind of surgery where they shoot frikkin’ laser beams at your 2nd and 3rd cornea, shaping it in such a way that you are miraculously able to see without the aid of spectacles or contact lenses. Me, having pretty bad eye-sight, thought that’d be a nice investment for life.. The only problem for me was: the treshold for Lasik surgery is -11.00 degrees, in terms of eye-sight grading.. For your reference, -11.00 degrees would mean you could probably see your clearly if you’d put your hand about half a meter away from your face.. I, on the other hand, have -19.00 or for the laymen: legally blind (not to be mistaken with “Legally Blonde“, a movie starring Reese Witherspoon).
So, they offered me an alternative.. I could implant a contact lense, right into my eye, behind the cornea.. Well, that sounds all cool and stuff, but it’d also increase my chances to develop a catharact (I think that’d be “staar” in Dutch). Now, I already seem to be developing a mild form of catharact in my right eye and this’d just speed things up.. Not only that, but it’d speed money out of my bank-account faster than I could spell catharact as well: SGD 4,000 – SGD 5,000 (EUR 2,500) per eye and many follow-up medical checks for a year.. Since that would be a bit too much of an investment to me, I decided to skip it for a while more.. Ofcourse, if you want to donate any amount to my PayPal account, please do not hestitate to contact me 
Nevertheless, it was a good learning experience and a disappointment and we’ll be moving forward. Hopefully, the near future will bring more developments in the optical surgery department and perhaps, God-willing, I’ll be able to go for a Lasik surgery in a few years time.. Keep you posted!
Here, you will be able to read (again) what keeps me occupied, entertained and distracted during my time away from work (ok ok, also during my work-time occasionally 