I finally got a chance to head to the naval hospital in Bremerton for a pre-op consult. I’d been up for almost twenty hours by the time they started some of my tests so it took a few times to get the results right. If I had been working on dayshift, I wouldn’t have experienced any of these problems. The doc recommended that I have PRK on my eyes instead of LASIK.

The first four days of recovery will be the worst as I will be wearing a contact lens bandage while the cornea of my eye heals. Some people experience minor complications with the surgery but they are rare at best. I’m just hoping that I’ll be able to snowboard and drive without glasses. If I have to carry a pair of glasses around to read I won’t complain – its got to be better than fogging up every time I walk into a building from November to March.

I’ve got to run around some paperwork for command approval but they’ve already approved the initial part and I don’t know why they wouldn’t approve the second. I’ll only be out for four days initially and then should be able to drive and get around as normal.