{"id":45,"date":"2009-02-13T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-02-13T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T02:41:08","slug":"i-can-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/i-can-see\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can See!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the first day since I was in fourth grade that I can see clearly without the use of glasses or other corrective devices.<\/p>\n

I’d tried contacts back in high school when, as a new driver, I nearly \u00a0got into a collision with another car that I didn’t see out of the corner of my eye. \u00a0Looking back with my many years of experience I realize that the near collision wasn’t as deadly as it had seemed that day. \u00a0Regardless, I had rushed out with this urgency to get contacts so that I could drive better by being able to see more (or so my teenage mind thought). \u00a0Well the contact urge quickly\u00a0dissipated\u00a0after I got one into my eye, then couldn’t get it out again. \u00a0Glasses were for me, and I’d resigned myself to wearing them.<\/p>\n

Then last year my lovely wife, Angie, decided to get Lasik from Will Vision Center<\/a>. \u00a0I watched in horror as thoughts of how her vision was being\u00a0irreparably\u00a0changed. \u00a0Holding her had as I ushered my no blind wife around raced through my head as I watched the laser on the monitor cut the flap and then alter her cornea. \u00a0Much to my relief she escaped the doom that was playing out in my head. \u00a0I thought about it for myself, but after the contact incident I figured they’d need teams of horses to keep my eyelids open during the procedure along with massive sedatives that would have knocked me out.<\/p>\n

Well time passed by and I saw how easy life without glasses or contacts could be. \u00a0I wouldn’t need to mess with glasses when putting on or taking off the motorcycle helmet. \u00a0I wouldn’t need to have these monster prescription lenses in my sunglasses, I could wear any old pair. \u00a0I could look over the edge of anything without a fear of my portal to the clear world falling off my head. \u00a0Needless to say, I started to think. \u00a0I didn’t have much time to think because it was time to enroll in next year’s benefits package and by extension my health care spending account. \u00a0If I was to get Lasik, I’d want tax free money to do it with.<\/p>\n

I rushed to\u00a0Will Vision Center<\/a> and pre-pre-qualified for it. \u00a0Damn, I was a really good candidate. \u00a0I filled out the necessary forms, and the money was spent. \u00a0The year turned over and now the money was mine to use. \u00a0If I was going to go through with this I better get it over with before my running season started so that I didn’t miss any races because of it. \u00a0I made all the appointments so that the momentum of the event would carry me through — cold feet and all.<\/p>\n

The week before the surgery I was altering every future statement with “…if I don’t go blind.” \u00a0I mean, what’s the use of starting to chase after an MBA if I’m going to be blind? \u00a0Fortunately the surgery went very well, and now I have to make good on those promises I’d made if I didn’t go blind.<\/p>\n

It’s really weird to be able to move around without glasses on, yet be able to still see. \u00a0I’m still having a little\u00a0blurriness\u00a0now-and-then, but the doctors say that’s normal this close to the surgery (one day out) and Angie confirmed. \u00a0I’m looking forward to cheap sunglasses, not\u00a0inadvertently\u00a0cocking my head to one side because my glasses frame is crooked, and generally not worrying about breaking my glasses.<\/p>\n

If you’re reading this and wondering if you should, I’d say go for it. \u00a0There’s only a slight discomfort during the procedure and the result is worth it. \u00a0Of course, if you are going to go through with it, make sure that you’ve\u00a0researched\u00a0the procedure and doctors throughly, you’re OK with the risks, and are willing to potentially not be a good candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the first day since I was in fourth grade that I can see clearly without the use of glasses or other corrective devices. I’d tried contacts back in high school when, as a new driver, I nearly \u00a0got into a collision with another car that I didn’t see out of the corner of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}