Day: May 17, 2025

I started wearing contacts at age 16. It was told it was better for driving and it greatly improves your vision over glasses. I am quite near-sighted, with vision of around 20/200 without glasses, which would qualify me as legally blind if I couldn’t wear corrective glasses.

Often I would hesitate over a $5,000 optional expense. But compared to a lot of things that cost $5,000, getting LASIK eye correction is a good value, an investment in my future that will most likely save money in the future on glasses and contacts. It also will improve my quality of life by not having to fiddle around with contacts, which can sometimes be quite irrating on rainy days or when my hands aren’t as clean as maybe they should be while up at camp.

In some ways, I am a bit concerned about physically modifying my eye with a laser, but the odds of a quick recovery are quite good based on the data I’ve been reading. My vision has been stable for decades, and I’ve been handing over more and more, year after year for contact lens, glasses and exams. Indeed based on the current cost of contact lens when you factor in inflation, I could fully recover the cost of LASIK within a decade. Without all those scammy refunds or dealing with the woke eye doctor every two years, although I often don’t go that frequently as I re-order contacts online.

In many ways though, I’d rather spend money on something like improving my eyes, rather then some physical product I use up and have dispose of in a few months or years. Something that very well could benefit for me for the rest of my life rather then have a short utility before it’s no longer useful. Good vision is important to so much in life.