The summary: Still the best money I’ve ever spent. My life has changed significantly. Weird how little things make all the difference, plus, my TV and monitors all gained significant size now that I’m not looking at them through glasses (they look at least 20% bigger). I’m considering it a free size upgrade with my vision correction.

1 Month Check-Up Exam:
20/20ish. Right eye is a little weaker than the left, but my brain is now doing a much better job of “stitching” the images from my eyes together so that I don’t notice the blur line in my vision and lack of extreme focus in one eye unless I look for it. The last week I haven’t found myself shutting my right eye while looking at things I need to focus on. The doctor said everything looked healthy, next check-up is at 3 months. Mental note – my doctors office has better snacks on Thursday and Friday (surgery day and post-surgery day :P).

Eye health observations:
1. Vision is great most of the day. My eyes still wear out much sooner than they used to when I wore glasses (usually by 6-8PM I need to close my eyes for 10-20 minutes), but my endurance is still improving gradually. Combined vision is around 20/20. I now force myself to read from 1.5+ feet away, occasionally I’ll find myself holding a book like 8” from my face to read and will notice only when my eyes start hurting from trying to focus that close up (prior to the surgery I could only focus from 0-6 inches or so from my eyes).

2. I’m using eyedrops 1-3 times a day right now. The higher the humidity in the places I’m hanging out in the less I need to use them. I’ve been running a humidifier or boiling water the majority of the time when I’m home to keep the humidity up in my house. Note that it is now Alaska in the winter, so I’m lucky to get my house to 35-40%. Only a month ago it was closer to 60% I could sustain.

3. Overhead light glare is still nasty. I keep my office lights off most of the time at work and turn off most overhead lights in the house if I’m just hanging out. My doctor said it would be 3-6 months before that problem would be gone.

4. Night vision isn’t bad, no worse than with contacts, I would say it’s a very similar experience for me. Headlights have big halos but nothing unmanageable.

5. I don’t worry about my eyes anymore, I don’t rub them other than very gently (I don’t know that that will ever change) and use drops to rinse out eyelashes, dust, etc. but it’s clear I no longer need to be overly concerned about watching out to touch them.

6. I wash my face 3-4 times a day, every day. This keeps me from getting stinging in my eyes due to concentrated tear salt over the day.

7. Sunglasses everywhere! I keep sunglasses with me almost all the time. Anytime I’m outdoors during the day or sunset/dusk I’m usually wearing them. This relates to the glare issue above.

Not bad for someone going from 8.5-9.5 diopters in correction to no correction at all.