Sadder and Wiser
I had LASIK done in Mid-April, 1999 at a well-known facility. This facility rents time to many, many eye surgeons and eye physicians in the my area. Initial exams and followups are done at the respective eye surgeons offices.

I can find no fault (that I know of) with the surgeon, facility or equipment yet the procedure itself is not without risks. There's no point naming the surgeon, he has performed over 5,000 Lasik procedures and many, many thousands of glaucoma and cateract surgeries and is highly rated in New England which is why I chose him.

But I'd pay to reverse my vision back to its pre-Lasik state! I can't read, focus up close, use the computer easily, go grocery-shopping, take photographs or do handiwork, all activities that gave me immense joy and pleasure in life. Yes, my distance vision is better. Better, that's all. Both eyes are not the same which affects my depth perception. I've stumbled a bit in the last week, dropped a coffee cup, reached for a cereal box and came up with thin air.

I can drive without glasses but need to concentrate on the task, as a task it has become.

This is the biggest, saddest, most profound mistake I have ever made. I am depressed and despondent. I can't believe I PAID to be put in this state. I wish I had checked into the pros and cons more before I chose Lasik. A new prescription and a new pair of glasses would have been a better choice and a reversible one.