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My LASIK eye surgery was last Thursday ... and it went perfectly. A VERY lengthy description of the surgery and the past few days is in the extended entry ;)

After thoroughly researching LASIK and the doctor I am going to see, I called for a LASIK consultation last week. I had to forgo wearing my contacts for a week before the consultation; they want your cornea to return to it's most natural state. Soooo ... you can't wear your contacts even for the consult. For the actual surgery some people have to go up to 2-3 weeks without their contacts. I don't like wearing my glasses. They give me headaches - and it stinks not having peripheral vision.

Sooo ... today was the consultation appointment. Two hours of eye tests. They check your eyes using all sorts of different machines ... then they dialate your eyes - and check them all again. This is comforting that they are trying to get as accurate as possible. Not so comforting is the still dialated eyes several hours later.

I went ahead and scheduled the surgery for next Thursday. I figured I already had one week of not wearing my contacts under my belt - so I would just go ahead and get it done. I'm excited -- I've wanted to have LASIK for a while now. It will be so strange to wake up and be able to see the alarm clock. To not have my contacts bugging me at the end of a long day. :)

Now I just have to decide what package I want to get. They offer a "Lifetime Enhancement" package - which basically means that they will keep my vision corrected for the rest of my life. Pretty useful considering I'm only 27 - and I know several people who have needed enhancements a few years after their LASIK. Your vision is going to naturally deteriorate ... soooo - anyway - that's what I've got to decide between now and Thursday. Do I want to pay the extra $$ to cover the lifetime package. My mom offered to pay for the difference between the One-Year Enhancement Package and the lifetime ... she thinks I should definitely do it. My vision just keeps progressively going downhill... so it probably would be smarter to go for the lifetime. That way I don't ever have to worry about it again.

I know about 15 people who have had LASIK - all good results. All would do it again in a heartbeat. Any of you guys out there have LASIK? Did you opt for any type of lifetime or yearly package?

Anybody see the commercials for the new birth control pill Seasonale? Having your period only four times a year? Oh yeah, I'm going to be asking my doctor about this one for sure.

I started the pill, Ortho Tri-Cyclen, when I was about 14 (seriously evil cramps); two years ago I switched to the Ortho-Evra patch. I love the patch ... the always there and consistant dose is much better than the pill. But this four times a year thing has me calling up my doctor to see what she thinks.

I wonder if they'll come out with a Patch version of Seasonale? I'm not too keen on going back to having to remember to take a pill at the same time every day; but if it means only having to deal with THAT every four months - well - we'll see!

But then I think ... I'm probably going to want to have kids sometime in the next 2-3 years - I wonder what the "come-down" time is on Seasonale. I hear it takes a few months off the Pill and the Patch before you can get pregnant. Lots of things to think about and talk to my doctor about!