Lasik Surgery Be Informed!

Information, information and more information.
All too often we don't take the time to be informed, Big Mistake number 1.
Any surgery is not routine when it comes to you, to your well being, to your quality of life. I found out the hard way, if you have read my other posts then you know that for me, surgery was not routine, unfortunately, for my doctor, he treated it as if it was routine and I believed him when he said he was experienced in retinitis pigmentosa, who would have thunk that a doctor would lie!!!! I was naive!

In another post I told about the vision center that I went to and how now they are claiming to have been " awarded " as one of the top centers in the US or some such nonsense. Of course these so called " awards " are for many centers and doctors just a paid membership advertising deal, connections with money will get many " businesses " to give out " many " awards! Tell you what, if you believe that these are honest awards, I will rent you a keyboard and then give you " Gold Seal Author of the Year Award " all for a price of 1 million a year. ( Didn't you always want to be a top author? ) that is pretty much what many of these " awards " are.
I ran across a site that has much information and links about lasik disasters, about the scams that lasik doctors pull, and about what to look out for, what you should know.
http://www.lasiksos.com/

You may still want to have lasik performed, but you can inform yourself as to the best doctors, what to look for and what to avoid. Good Luck.

Dr Porter, after cataract sirgery

After the cataract surgery I had " post op " visits with Dr Porter, I kept telling him that I couldn't see very well, what was going on, he kept assuring me that maybe I had a little swelling etc, not to worry, On the last visit to his office, he finally did admit that I would never get my near vision back ( I hadn't been told that cataract surgery robs you of any vision, only that it was supposed to improve your vision ) , he never did really admit that my distant vision was far worse than it had been, but had the gall to just start talking about wanting to do another procedure on the first eye and set up a date to do the second eye!!!! I asked him was the swelling down, was there any medical reason to have to come back? He said yes, I was fine, and no, no real reason to have to come back other than scheduling the next eye. I told him since he said I was " fine " I would not be coming back, I could not see, and that I sure wasn't letting him touch my other eye. ( unfornuately, he had messed up the eye with the best vision )

I went home and cried, it has been 18 months since I have been to the Downing and McPeak office, and I still can't talk about this or even write it without tearing up, you do not realize how much you value your sight until some doctor takes it, I told you in an earlier post that I loved to read, cook and shop? Not so much anymore, I need a magnifyer to do the simplest things, I can't see the price tags on anything when I am shopping without magnifying it, I can't see a recipe to cook, and what I had loved to do since I was young was to read , mostly fiction, now it takes forever to read a simple book with magnifying glasses and can't read for very long at that because I get headaches and my eyes tire.