75 days from now is September 23rd is last day for wearing contact lens 👀

Truth is I can’t wait until I don’t have to deal with those nasty pieces of plastic that I put in my eyes every day, sometimes to great irritation and struggle. I learned today in my 25 or 30 years of wearing contacts I have scratch in my right cornea from touching my eye on and off, though it’s far enough to the side that it won’t impact the procedure.

They want roughly $4.2k for a 10 minute procedure on the machine on afternoon of Friday September 26th. Nice work if you can get it I guess. Got to pay for the swanky office and the liability insurance. But it means never having to deal with contact lens or corrective lens again in my life, so it’s a good investment in my future. Contact lens get more and more expensive every year, more plastic and cardboard garbage, and the aluminum backs that have to be pulled off for recycling. And supposed yearly visits which I don’t do. With LASIK it’s just the free to me ordinary eye check up every two years with my vision insurance.

I could get in as soon as next week, but I am putting off get the surgery until summer is done. For one it gives me time to move money and maybe seek a higher credit card limit, as they don’t have a cash discount and I wouldn’t mind getting cashback on that. I also want to use up as many of my remaining contact lens I paid good money for before the celebratory bonfire. But mostly because for a month after LASIK surgery you aren’t allowed go swimming, which by September doesn’t matter. And it’s also a week of no bike riding.