regrets

In my 34 years of life I cannot think of anything I regret. Yes I have made mistakes but for every decision I have made in my life it has shaped the person I am now. I do not regret any of it.Until now.Now I have exactly one regret in my life.I regret I ever had this stupid LASIK procedure done.In 17 days it will be exactly 6 months since I had the procedure. I was told it takes 6 months for your eyes to heal completely. Unless there is some sort of miraculous vision event on the 24th of August I will take that to be a load of bull crap.I am still seeing double out of my left eye more often than not. My right eye, not to be left out, sees double the days my left one takes a break and acts normal.My eyes are so dry and irritated that they have become blood red to the point of looking possessed and having people at work ask me if I am ok. I have never had allergies like this before and I can only guess it's extra irritated this year because of the dryness that was already bad due to the stupid LASIK thing.I have had enough of drops, gels, plugs put in my eyes. I am dropping once an hour and it is doing nothing to make anything better.I hate it. I see worse than I did without my glasses when I NEEDED my glasses. Nothing is clear. I have headaches all the time. I can't read my computer at work or at home or books.I cannot drive like this.If it's an overcast day? Forget it. My eyes will NOT work. I will not see anything clearly at all. Unfortunately the lighting in my office is very similar to an overcast day (yes, I know, how charming) and I can't see a bloody thing clearly while at work.I hate it. I want to go back in the past and NOT HAVE THE PROCEDURE DONE.If I had heard ONE negative thing before I did this I would have rethought it. I know I would have. Anyone who had extremely dry eyes prior to the procedure who had told me they had difficultly with recovery? I would have RETHOUGHT the entire decision.But no one did. The LASIK MD place KNEW I had extremely dry eyes. I had one person at work tell me they got the silicone plugs I now have TWO MONTHS PRIOR to their procedure and it made a difference. Mine should have done the same thing. I was told everything will be ok.And unless a miracle happens by my final check up appointment on September 11th, I am asking for my money back. I do not want to have this stupid thing done again. Hell, no! No one is ever coming near my eyes again unless I am about to die or something and they have to save me by being near my eyes. I don't want anyone touching my eyes again.I want my eyes to work.I want to be able to see.And  a warning to any of you who might stumble upon this post while researching LASIK stuff - if you have extremely dry eyes - STRESS THIS TO THE DOCTORS and THINK TWICE about dropping a wad of cash on having laser eyes. It's not worth it.

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