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LASIK ruined our celebration years after our surgeries
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| My significant other and I have both had LASIK. We decided to take my mother
out for her birthday dinner at a nice restaurant I hadn't visited in a
couple of years (since before my surgery). My mother was shopping nearby, I
was working and my significant other was coming from home - we intened to
all meet at the restaurant shortly after 5PM. A friend of the family joined
us as well. The friend and my mother arrived first and were shown to a table
upstairs. I arrived next. A waiter attempted to lead me to the table but my
contrast sensitivity is so poor I had to stop and reach for a wall. I
couldn't see well enough to follow him further. The waiter walked ahead and
disappeared into blackness. I stood there stunned. I had had an enjoyable
meal in this same room before LASIK and now I couldn't make it to my
able - well before sundown. There just wasn't enough light in that place
for a damaged post-LASIK. I felt my way along to some stairs, climbed the
stairs and was led to a table. We asked to be moved to a table with a lamp ,
which was arranged. My significant other showed up minutes later at the top
of the stairs looking bewildered. He couldn't see us sitting 10 feet away.
This is what it's like to try to do something as simple as taking your
mother to a restaurant for her birthday dinner once you've had LASIK. My
mother was so sad for us on her birthday, because she knows we're a young
couple and our vision is badly damaged. Our futures are shortchanged.
Everything is tainted by a bad LASIK. And All LASIK is bad LASIK.
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| serebel 2005-08-06, 10:55 pm |
| Oh yeah right. Another woe is me story. This is a good one for SE or
LME, they'll just suck it up. This story sounds like total bull. The
odds against you and your siggy other having the same bad outcome is
lotto high.
SErebel
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| Look, every LASIK patient loses contrast sensitivity so this story isn't so
hard to believe. It happened yesterday.
I met my significant other through damaged LASIK patient
support networks. It is much easier to have a relationship with someone who
understands your eye pain, visual limitations, need for constant eye drops
and heat packs, etc. I would suggest to others that LASIK support groups
are a great way to meet someone if you are single and have had a bad LASIK
outcome.
Someone who has not had a bad LASIK outcome may not understand that you
are almost completely blind in dim light, and what this means to your
ability to
function in the evening.
But I didn't have to go far to find other damaged LASIK patients. My
hairdresser has a bad outcome. My optometrist has dry eye and has to wear
lower plugs from his LASIK. A guy in my department has pain in his eye even
from GENTLY touching his eyelid 2 years after surgery. A lady at my Vet's
office
has bad dry eye since her LASIK. My dental hygenist can't drive at night
since
her LASIK. A sales rep I work with has deteriorating vision and is really
frightened.
Another sales rep's husband almost lost his mind from his bad outcome. He
has
to wear plugs too, and the vision in one eye is very blurry.
When I go for eye appointments I meet other people in waiting rooms who have
had very bad LASIK outcomes. The young mother with double vision in one eye
and blurry vision in the other. She's a 2005 case. The young guy who has
trouble
traveling on business because he can't see at night. He has large pupils and
his surgeon
went ahead with LASIK anyway without fully informing him of the
consequences.
None of these people are whiners. It is sickening to think what the LASIK
industry
and LASIK surgeons have done to these people.
The odds against having no damage from LASIK are lotto high. As a matter
of a fact, there is no patient on record who has come out of LASIK without
permanent eye damage.
"serebel" <serebel@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1123379103.046456.75030@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Oh yeah right. Another woe is me story. This is a good one for SE or
> LME, they'll just suck it up. This story sounds like total bull. The
> odds against you and your siggy other having the same bad outcome is
> lotto high.
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> SErebel
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