Emily wrote:
Margy Natalie wrote:

Emily wrote:

BTIZ wrote:

You best put your glasses on and go do some night landing practice
with them.



Don't know anyone around here to sit in the other seat in case I
can't land again.

Hire an instructor. I used to have really bad vision (Lasik, ALL the
complications you read about, would do it again) and if I didn't have
some kind of correction I wouldn't have made the field. My AME, after
my exam, asked if I carried an extra pair of glasses (YES) suggested I
might want to carry 2 pairs. I think the idea of me in the air
without correction scared the willies out of him.

Margy


So you had complications and would still do it again? I only know one
person who had problems, and he can't even drive at night now. That
scared me of ever wanting it done.

My current vision is 20/20 (although I think the right eye might be
slipping to 20/25). With glasses I was always corrected to 20/15 so the
20/20 looked a bit blurry at first. I didn't get this result in the
right eye until after the second surgery. During the first surgery my
corneas doubled in size after they lifted the flap. My surgeon was
training another surgeon who got a bit upset when they were left with
way to much cornea to stuff back on the eye. They had to trim off the
excess and stuff it in as best they could. Then while healing it
flipped under (not real comfortable) so I had to go in and have them pry
that part up again and stick it down in a more appropriate fashion. I
have a bit of area outside the correction with astigmatism, but it's not
really too much of a bother. What I did notice is now I have to wait
for my night vision to kick in which I never did before. I really had
no idea why people worried about adapting to the dark etc. as I adapted
within 2 or 3 seconds. The surgeon waited a couple of years before the
second surgery as he wanted more research to be done before he opened my
eye up again, so I had 20/20 in one and 20/70 in the other for a while
(wearing glasses again), but I would have even been happy with that as I
no longer worried about breaking glasses, losing glasses, etc. as I
could find my way around. Before surgery if the cats knocked my glasses
off the night table I couldn't see to find them and had to crawl around
feeling for them.

Margy