{"id":1975,"date":"2015-02-17T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2015-02-17T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T12:45:11","slug":"lasik-five-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/lasik-five-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasik: Five Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s been a little longer than five years since I had the surgery, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>It was the end of December of 2009 when I had the surgery done. I was incredibly nervous, as people often are when things are going in, around or on their eyes. I&#8217;m not sure what made me so nervous, but I remember sitting there, waiting for my turn. I hear the zap zap zap through the door to my right as the person before me was having their treatment done. I equated it to hearing a tattoo gun for the first time while waiting for your first tattoo. The noise makes it even more terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>I made it through the procedure unscathed &#8211; if you want some details from that day, <a title=\"Day Two \u2013 Post LASIK Surgery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/day-two-post-lasik-surgery\/\">this post is what you&#8217;re after<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the last five years, I haven&#8217;t missed wearing glasses even once. Some awesome things you can do without wearing glasses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get pushed into a pool and not care about getting your glasses wet.<\/li>\n<li>Voluntarily swim and still see stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Not worry about your glasses slipping off your head while you&#8217;re mowing the lawn and get sweaty.<\/li>\n<li>Wake up and read an alarm clock across the room.<\/li>\n<li>Watch TV while laying in bed.<\/li>\n<li>Kiss someone without stabbing her in the face.<\/li>\n<li>Use your finger to push your glasses back up your nose.<\/li>\n<li>Never have to take the glasses off to clean them with your shirt sleeve.<\/li>\n<li>Look through the viewfinder of a camera properly.<\/li>\n<li>Use the binoculars at the top of the Empire State Building.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I still look back and am incredibly glad I got the procedure done. If I had to do it again, I would do it in a heartbeat. Being able to wake up in the morning and not wonder where my glasses are, where I left them last night, \u00a0or if they&#8217;re clean is such an incredible feeling. It&#8217;s nice to not worry and be able to just roll out of bed and get dressed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how quickly the last five years have gone by. I look forward to a full five years after my tattoo removal treatments are done, so I can reflect back on that as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s been a little longer than five years since I had the surgery, but you get the idea. It was the end of December of 2009 when I had the surgery done. I was incredibly nervous, as people often are when things are going in, around or on their eyes. I&#8217;m not sure what made me so nervous, but I remember sitting there, waiting for my turn. I hear the zap zap zap through the door to my right as the person before me was having their treatment done. 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