A bit of backgound

I've worn glasses since I was about 13 years old and always disliked it. I remember choosing horrible huge plastic-framed things (as they were the cheapest) and feeling like I was hiding behind them. As I was quite shy I suppose it helped me keep well hidden and meant that I could just continue on my own merry way of hiding from the world. I don't remember being picked on because of my glasses but as a target for bullies anyway with the awful square clothes my mum insisted on buying me and the fact that I was clever, so I suppose the glasses didn't really figure in the big scheme of things far as those kind of people are concerned.

As I got older I tried out contact lenses, firstly gas-permeable ones - yuck and then moving onto soft ones. In wearing my contact lenses I gained a new-found confidence, although even they weren't ideal. People who wear contact lenses might identify with the tired, dry-eyes feeling at about 2am when you've had them in for far too long and now it feels like your lenses are stuck onto your eyeballs with super glue and you worry that you're goint to pull you eyes out as you remove them.

So, university over and done with I continued with contact lenses but they became more and more uncomfortable, reaching a point a few years ago when I had to finally give in a stop wearing them, returning to glasses full time.

I was not happy with that situation at all, going back to hiding behind them and experimenting with some slightly more fashionable eye-wear but never really getting it right as my face seemed to be the wrong shape for them.

Matters came to a head this summer when I got some lovely, red framed glasses and some rather nice sunglasses too but I could not get them to feel comfortable. They hurt my ears, hurtn my nose, gave me headaches and slipped down my nose when ever I did any sport (a good excuse not to do any physical activity).

Then I spoke to my cousin's partner who had had laser eye surgery earlier in the year and he was absolutley over the moon with it. Having considered it before, I became hooked on the idea of having my eyes zapped and ridding myself of the dreaded glasses once and for all, so here we are, at the point where I dedided it was time for action. I asked for contributions towards the procedure for Christmas and then all that was left for me to do was to make the appointment for my initial consultation...