Here’s what you normally see driving in the streets in the evening:
Here’s what I see:
Fucking glare in ALL sources of light. I shit you not. that’s a very close estimate of what it looks like.
It’s been 3 years since I had Lasik, and my daytime vision couldn’t be better. Even the doctor said I was "above 20/20". I got fucking eagle eyes… as long as there’s a blazing sun or at least proper lighting. In the evening however, it all goes to shit. My freakishly large pupils let in more light than they should and cause this anomaly to fuck up my eyesight. I abhor driving at night, and if you think that’s bad, try and imagine it raining, where every single drop of rain on the windshield refracts tiny pieces of light. It’s like having your windshield surrounded by small Christmas lights.
I remember going to the movies just a few weeks after surgery, when my eyes were still healing. It was HORRIBLE. If there was a dark scene in the movie, the white subtitles looked like glowing white smears on the screen. I thought I’d never be able to enjoy a movie theater again. But luckily it’s gotten a bit better.
Once I scared the shit out of DS because I almost came to a halt righ in the middle of the Martínez Nadal Expressway, because there was a part of it that didn’t have any lighting at all, combined with no fluorescent lane dividers painted on the street (like 75% of all puertorrican streets), so everything in front of me became a big black nothing. It was like I was driving into Silent Hill. Except there was no fog or lights or anything. Just a black emptiness. DS was all "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STOPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EXPRESSWAY HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD WE’RE GONNA DIE WHATS WRONG WITH YOU!".
Ever since that night he never lets me drive anywhere after dark as long as he can help it.
Unfortunately the monster pupils can’t be corrected so I’m stuck with the hazy night vision.
It’s weird how it’s only been 3 years since I stopped using prescription glasses, and for some odd reason I can’t remember them clearly. It’s like the laser beam also burned the part of my brain that held any recollection of glasses or contacts. I just hope that, like the surgeon said, the effects are truly permanent and I never have to wear those goddamn metal (or plastic) contraptions on my face again. Every time I see someone with glasses I have a selfish "how can they live with that?!" thought. I know that by now I probably sound like a poster boy for laser eye correction. But it just feels so fucking liberating, that the thought of having your vision confined to such a small contraption like glasses becomes an outrage. It changes your life, people! It sure changed the hell out of mine.
It’s a bummer my laser enhanced eyesight can’t see through people’s clothes though.
será medio ridículo pero, ¿y si te pones gafas (aunque sea de noche) no se soluciona un poco?
by mayitox November 19th, 2007 at 9:24 amNo, me lo han sugerido y lo he tratado y no resuelve nada.Tras de que me oscurece todo, se queda el “glare”. He visto unas que anuncian por televisión pero no voy a tirarme el chance y gastar esa cantidad de dinero para que no funcione y para colmo parezca una mosca manejando.
by Kaiser Dämmerung November 19th, 2007 at 12:29 pmQué fuerte. Después me dices el médico y la clínica.
by Héctor Aponte Alequín November 24th, 2007 at 12:03 ambitch,,,usaremos espejuelos,,pero al contrario de ti, podemos ver de noche, no hay glare, y no necesitamos chofer,,,,jajaja
by Pik November 25th, 2007 at 5:32 pmPero yo no me quedo ciego no importa si es de día o de noche si se me pierden o se me rompen.
by Kaiser Dämmerung November 25th, 2007 at 9:52 pmHéctor, se me olvidó mencionarlo antes: Fue en Infinity Laser Centers, ahí en City View. De hecho, los empleados del Sacrosanto Imperio Ferré Rangel tienen 15% de descuento
by Kaiser Dämmerung December 30th, 2007 at 5:14 pm