Lasik eye surgery and photographers

I've been thinking about getting eye surgery to eliminate the need for glasses, but I was wondering if any of you have had, or know of another photographer who has had this type of surgery and if there are any unique factors I need to consider as a photographer.

One of my doctors is a friend, he wears glasses and I asked him about lasic. His reply was "I'll wait until its been 50 years, if those people are ok, I'll do it."  Makes sense to me. (I am Diabetic, not suitable for the surgery)

Me, too, but after having to go to progressive lenses, I've lost so much. With progressives, you're only looking through a band down the center of the lenses. If you look slightly to the right or left it all gets blurry.

Technology rocks.  I love living now.  It's probably expensive, but I am sure anyone could do it if they found a willing doctor.

Hmm..If I'm blind in 50 years at least I won't have to see the stretched out tattoo's and implants on the rest of the old folks my age.

Well, in 2 hours, I will be under the laser. I probably won't be on much over the next few days. Wish me luck.

Well, let me tell you, that was scary. The anticipation was worse than the surgery, that's for sure. When I arrived, they gave me a valium and told me to have a seat in the waiting room and to help myself to cookies. I was too nervous for cookies. The medication kicked in pretty fast, and I had a hard time walking a straight line to the bathroom. They did a few preliminary tests and the next thing I know I'm being led into the surgery suite. They had me lie down between the two lasers and someone placed a huge dog stuffed animal on my chest and told me to hold onto that. What am I, five?

They then put tons of drops in my eyes to numb them, the doctor used a marker on my eyeball and then I was placed under the first laser. A device was inserted to keep my right eye open, and it made everything really dark. Then I had to focus on a red light and the laser cut a flap in my cornea (about 20 seconds). They then slid me under the other laser and they taped my eyelids open. Ah, the smell of burning eyeball as the laser started the vision correction (another 20 seconds or so). I never thought I'd smell it. Eek. I watched as the doctor swabbed the flap closed and washed the eyeball. Then it was time for the left eye. The doctor explained everything he was doing the entire time, which really helped me to relax.

Now, 3 days later, I can clearly see small planes flying in the distance. Because I'm over 40 I had been told ahead of time that I may immediately need reading glasses, which turns out to be the case. I still have a halo around bright objects, but they say that will disappear over the next few weeks. The next-day followup exam showed that my vision is already better than they expected after just one day. They said I would have scratchy eyes for a couple of weeks, but that went away after the second day.

So far, it doesn't look like I'll need a readjustment, but it's still too soon to know for sure. I have another visit in 3 weeks.

My eyes do get tired staring at a computer screen for long periods of time, so I am trying to stay off as much as I can (it's sooo hard!).

I think the hardest thing for me, though, is waiting for them to settle down and know for certain how they're going to be. I had to print some things for the farmer's market yesterday, and there's a blurry region between the reading glasses and where my corrected vision kicks in and it's really frustrating. But we'll see if that gets better over the next couple of weeks.