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! 😉