Lasik Eye Surgery - The Lead Up

It has been five years since I had my Lasik Eye Surgery. Feels like yesterday. I was in Dubai working as an exhibition organizer that specialized in Medical services. My girlfriend at the time, now wife! worked as a teacher. She was always at me to get Lasik Eye Surgery as she hated me with the glasses on. The thing is that I needed them as I was almost blind without them. Mind you most of my glasses were very trendy and look good on me, at least in my opinion. Anyway, to get rid of the glasses , we tried everything other than Laser Eye Surgery. I just did not want anyone touch my eyes. Imagine the horror of loosing you sight if anything goes wrong!!!

Time went on and I got to change my glasses few times with new looks and different types of shadings. But Girl friend was still at me to do something about them. One of my birthdays she actually went and got me a box of contact lenses, each costing around 100 euro! Guess what? I turned out to be allergic to them. More than 300 euro worth of contact lenses out the drain.

So there was only one more option to go for, Lasik Eye Surgery. Being a master researcher, so I tell myself, I started googling all about laser correction and LASIK. I never knew the number of people who managed to do as it is quite new in Dubai. I did not know anyone there that was did it. Around six months passed and I still have not done anything with it, busy with work and all. Then fortune struck. In the last day of one of the exhibitions we were organising, which funnily focused on cosmetic and corrective surgery. I bumped into an old friend of mine who manages a private hospital in Dubai. We got talking and I mentioned to her that I was eager to have a Lasik Surgery done. She was brilliant enough to offer me a visit and tour at there facilities as they got a new machine.

Few weeks later I went with my Girl Friend to the hospital. The machine was huge! It freaked me out to be honest. She actually introduced me to one of the doctors and we had a long discussion with him. Comfort kicked in and I felt much safer then (something I totally recommend). All went well and we left the hospital with a booking to the surgery in a month! I got to have the Lasik Eye Surgery and the rest is history.

Want to read about the what happens next click on to The Pre-Operation of the Surgery!