Leading Up To Lasik

My back-story:

I’ve needed corrective lenses since fourth grade. Almost every eye exam of my young life left me with thicker glasses. As I kept growing my eyes kept degrading. One year while I was in high school there was a lasik conference in my home town. This was a big deal as lasik was very new at the time. While attending the conference with my mother (who also wears glasses) I realized that I wanted to have the surgery. Of course, I wasn’t old enough to get the procedure at that time and my vision hadn’t leveled off at that point, but I desperately wanted to experience life without corrective lenses.

Life continued and so did my desire to have laser corrective surgery. In college I met a few people that had positive experiences with lasik. This kept the desire alive and also left me a bit hopeful. Money was always a factor in the back of my mind as lasik isn’t exactly cheap, so for a while the thought of getting lasik was left on the back burner.

Fast forward and I’ve got a decent, stable job. During my last eye exam I asked my ophthalmologist if I was a candidate for lasik laser eye correction. Indeed I was and I was given a list of lasik providers in my area. I narrowed it down to two choices, basically based on who I had heard of on the radio or television.

The choice was between the Woolfson Eye Institute and the TLC Laser Eye Center. My first guess was to go to Woolfson but my girlfriend made the point that TLC was good enough for Tiger Woods and therefore should be a safe bet. Not one to argue with my girlfriend, I chose to make the initial consultation with TLC.

By this point in my life I desperately wanted lasik and so I didn’t bother to check into the Woolfson Institute. Perhaps I should have, we’ll never know. The staff at TLC seemed good enough and they sure were expensive so they can’t be bad, right? My experience with the TLC Center can be found here.