Overall my vision is excellent.  Clarity is good and now my dry eye only seems to happen if I spend time in big box stores  or staring at things like computer monitors for more than half an hour at a time.  I no longer need to be super gentle with my eyes, I now function as I did pre-lasik but try not to rub them very hard or often.

I’ve reached the point where having good vision is natural, although I still reach for my glasses in the morning often. My brain still interprets the correction as some sort of corrective lenses so I find myself wanting to keep old glasses and the like although there isn’t a chance of me ever needing that strong of prescription again (combined correction of 8.5-9.5 diopters in each eye).

Some observations from my Lasik experience:
1. Fix for stinging eyeballs after the last 3-4 days - I found that I was being so careful with my eyes that they were becoming saturated with salt. Start washing your face with your eyes closed (just splash water on your face gently) a few times a day after the first 3 or 4 days or if you get serious stinging that doesn’t seem to be cured by drops.

2. Wear your protective eyewear at night after the first week, I went about 10 days before I broke my glasses but it was clear that it helped keep me from rubbing them. I’ve caught myself a few times since I stopped wearing them.

3. If you are uncomfortable just hanging out in your home boost the humidity a bit. I boil water and run a humidifier regularly. It tends to make my eyes much more comfortable.

To summarize my Lasik experience so far:
The best money I’ve ever spent. Period. Even if it cost twice as much, the best money ever spent, although at double I wouldn’t have ever of spent it to find out. My life has changed - in the shower I now see where the shampoo bottle is, when I get up I can see things on the floor to see if I’m going to trip, I can now look across the room at the cable box for the time when I wake up at night, things more than 4” from my face are in focus (now things 4” from my face are out of focus, takes about 6” to be in focus). For someone who spent their life with terrible vision the quality of life gained is huge.  

I placed my head against my camera’s viewfinder today and realized “hey, now I don’t bump my glasses against my camera when looking into the viewfinder”… it’s the little things that make all the difference.