#prksurgery

[mellybaggins]

I had shit eyesight for most of my life. Glasses in middle school, gradually worsening distance vision at every checkup until I was on the edge of legally blind.

I had PRK corrective eye surgery in 2020 to drastically improve my vision (extremely painful recovery for about a week, plus a few months of photosensitivity, but 100% worth doing if your eyes were as bad as mine were.) I was warned that the 20/20 vision I got from it was temporary, and that my eyes would continue to change over time, but anything was better than what I had before.

Well, I had near perfect distance vision all through the pandemic (no fogging glasses in the winter/wearing masks!) I cannot tell you how happy I was to not have to worry about where my glasses are before getting out of the bed, having to shower with glasses on, having to swim with glasses on...it was freedom. But as promised, my eyes finally started to change again in late 2024. Now I need reading glasses for the computer (and fine print on packages) only, which I'm fine with. It's far far better than what I dealt with for the thirty years before the surgery.

All this to say, it was corrective surgery to fix a chronic disability that I've had all my life.

Yes, Myopia is a disability, and people need to talk about it more.

That is all.

Made the mistake of bringing up that needing glasses is a disability on tiktok and people got real mad.

“You can fix it with glasses” yeah, cuz they’re a disability aid? But like, I still have to pay 160 bucks to use my own fucking eyes?

Like, by definition, if your eyes do not work without aid, you have a disability to see.

Having a disability doesn’t automatically put you in what people consider the “disabled” category, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is in fact, a disability.

[eyelaserclinic]

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[2020colorado]

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[liqueurdefeeling]

did you get prk? i thought about it but every laser eye doctor i’ve met wears glasses 🤷🏻‍♀️ i also looked up “prk/lasik regret” and i’ve decided glasses aren’t too bad for me. but i have friends who rave about their prk and lasik results so who knows

Yes I did! You can dm me if you want to talk a bit about it (or ask more questions as anon)

[flock-of-cassowaries]

As a person who had what was termed “high myopia” (-7.75 prescription on both eyes) and who got an absolutely brutal laser eye surgery (which people who know me routinely assume must have been motivated by necessity, but no - it was vanity; cranky plaid shirt enthusiasts are capable of vanity too):

1. Yes to the above.

2. If anyone wants to write a fic wherein circumstances force Will to:

a) suffer very greatly, and

b) depend on Hannibal waaaaay more than he might have expected / wanted to, well… do I ever have a premise for you!

3. If you ever get told the only surgery they can do is PRK… probably don’t do that. I am so serious. I love not needing glasses, but it was absolutely awful, and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

(Seriously, though, if any whump enthusiasts want to write “Will Graham gets his corneas [REDACTED OUT OF CONSIDERATION TO THE READER], and the recovery is way worse than he could have imagined”, feel free to hit me up for the horrible, terrible, verybad details. It’s been nine years. I can laugh about it now.)

As a person who has to wear glasses on a daily basis, I should say Will not having them on was definitely a sign of him feeling powerful, going through a period of change even.

[spearfishing-freediving-world]

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[cvleye]

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[kerritang]

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[eyelaserclinic]

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[2020colorado]

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[cvleye]

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[eyelaserclinic]

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[2020colorado]

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