(All photos for this entry are posted here) Friday afternoon I had my right eye touched up with Wavefront LASIK. I had previously had both eyes done last Oct. While my left eye was better than 20/20, my right eye was slightly worse. My vision was fine, but I’m a perfectionist. I wanted a touchup on the right eye to match them up. I had it done at the same place (Custom Laser Center) and by the same doc (Zdenek). Both are great. This time was a bit different than last. Because I had already had a flap cut for the first surgery, they didn’t have to suction my eyeball and re-slice. The doc just numbed my eye and used a magnifier and a thin tool to reopen the flap. He said his record is 7 years for reopening the flap, but he was going to be doing one this weekend that was 10 years. Interesting to know that just the surface heals together, rather than the whole slice. After that they put me under the machine, cleaned up the surface (if they leave cells in there they can start to grow and mess up the correction), and zapped away. Vicodin + valium and I slept from 4pm to 8am. So far everything seems pretty good. I still have the standard light bleeding (think over exposed picture), but that goes away in a little bit. On paper it was a minor change, but my vision seems much better (keep in mind it wasn’t bad before). I especially notice the change at night. My night vision is much better than it was. In fact, I think it is quite close to my night vision before LASIK, which was extremely good. Probably thanks to my 8mm pupils. I’m not sure if the change is just the update on the prescription, or if they did a wider spread (normally 6mm, blended out to 10ish). I’ll have to ask at my next appointment. I have a DVD of the close up view on my eye during the surgery. If anyone is morbidly interested I will encode it down to a web viewable size and post it.
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