Viewing the world, unaided.

Tomorrow morning I'm scheduled for my PRK surgery. PRK is a corrective surgery for the eyes that eliminates the need for glasses or contact lenses. I'm looking forward to it, and to put this coming week behind me, but I'm a little nervous and worried, as is expected before any kind of surgery, let alone one that involves an organ as essential to one's everyday functioning as the eye. Obviously, the vision correction was a big incentive to undergo the procedure, but my main reason was to finally correct my corneal dystrophy, a condition I recently discovered, while I was looking into the LASIK procedure, in which the cornea isn't as smooth as it should be. As a result, tears do not spread out evenly, rather they stream as if in little rivers, thereby leaving portions of my eyes consistently dry and burning. The procedure should correct this problem for good, and I can't wait to see the results, since I've lived all my life with burning eyes, thinking that it was normal and everyone had them as dry as I did. Little did I know this was far from the truth. Anyway, tomorrow I'll spend most of the day in bed, sleeping, in order to allow the eyes to recover. Tuesday we'll see how I feel and how I can see, although I've been informed that it could take up to a few months before I can see "perfectly." I will, however, be able to see fairly well right away without the need to wear glasses or contact lenses, which for me is totally unheard of. I've been wearing glasses ever since I can remember. Ever since I was a little kid. Well, let's hope everything goes well and the pain is not too much. I sort of know what I'm getting myself into, since I've had my cornea scratched three times in the past couple of years, and the procedure actually consists of removing the outermost layer of the cornea in order to allow it to grow back normally, but a few scratches are probably infinitesimal compared to the whole area removed. I hope I'll be able to post something soon. Without the need to wear my glasses. Finally.