I know it’s been a good five days since my last blog, but honestly…I’ve been busy. And, amazingly, I have been so busy and yet nearly nothing blog worthy has happened!

I did go and get a LASIK consultation done on Wednesday. Those of you have been paying attention know that a previous Doctor (from Lenscrafters), who admittedly is not a LASIK expert, told me that my eyes were in too bad a shape for LASIK because of neovascularization. She also told me that it would be a good 6-8 months before my eyes were in any shape for LASIK. But I went to get the LASIK consultation just to hear the bad news from the expert.

Now I should point out that this Lenscrafters Dr. is a doctor after all and was only telling me about a condition I already knew (thanks to several other doctors) that I had. It was the LensCrafters Dr. however that made me to realize that the damage to my eyes was not old damage, but rather current and rather severe damage (i.e. the precautions I had been taking were not sufficient). So she should get credit for this. I would have continued to wear my contacts and damage my eyes — leading to eventual loss of vision — if not for her insistence.

So today I went to the LASIK people today for a free consultation, fully expecting them to say “WHOA! Your eyes are horrible!! We can’t do LASIK on eyes like that! GET OUT! In fact stop looking at me with those horrible eyes”….something like that….

Anyway… I got there and they took some measurements and tests etc. Then the girl who was taking all the measurements of my eye asked me if I had any questions. I told her that I was concerned about my apparent severe neovascularization. She said something like “*Ppht* No no no no we see that sort of thing all the time. I can’t imagine that would be a show stopper, I mean we treat people who suffer from this because excessive contact wear all the time. But, we’ll let the Dr. take a look.” So the Dr. comes in and takes a look at my charts and starts to tell me what a great candidate I am.

Then he start to look at my eyes… then he looks back to the chart…then to the girl and says “I want you to re-map his right eye…this doesn’t look right”

It was at this point she realized that she’d given him the wrong charts.

So now with the correct charts in hand he glances at them and assures me I’m a great candidate.

I proceed to tell him about my neovascularization and he says “No no that’s no problem we see that all the time”. So I tell him that the Doctor I just talked to told me that my eyes were in such bad shape that it would be 6-8 months before anyone would be willing to give me LASIK. He practically jumped back in shock. In disbelief he said “Wha!? Let me see!” and pulls up an instrument and starts looking at my eyes. Almost chuckling behind this large device as he looked at my eyes he said “No…Pppht…this is…haha…no this is at WORST a mild case….this is no problem”.

So now… I don’t know what to do. I trust him…but I have no reason not to trust the other Dr.

I think I’m gonna go get a 3rd opinion.

This may all be a moot point since I can’t freakin’ afford this in the first place.