Adventures in Busan: We Can See Clearly Now Our Contacts Are Gone!

I (Megan) have always wanted to get LASIK. I also tend to be a realistic, logical person (just ask Laura and Nikki which one of us brings our conversations back to reality!), so I never thought I would ever have the procedure done since it's so expensive (remember, I'm also Dutch). So my LASIK dream has always been just that - a dream.

Then we moved to Korea, when many of my seemingly unrealistic dreams began coming true. In late May/early June, this LASIK dream became something I thought about more as our friends Cody and Arin had successfully undergone the surgery and came out with perfect vision, and all for a fantastic price. It took a while to convince Justin just how great this opportunity was, but with time, research, and the help of his parents (Justin says we ganged up on him), he finally agreed to go to the free consultation.

We walked into a pristine doctor's office where we each had 6-7 tests done on our eyes before we met with the doctor and got approved for surgery. We schedule them both for a week later, mine on Friday and Justin's on Saturday.

The doctor's office even displays the surgery on a large tv screen in the waiting room, so Justin snapped a few pictures of my eye during surgery, but it's hard to tell what's going on. He didn't watch the entire thing, which is probably good since we was going the next day. I, however, watched his entire procedure on Saturday and even video taped it. I'll get that uploaded as soon as I can, but if you get queasy easily, you may not want to watch it.

The day after my procedure I was already seeing 20/15, and as of our 2 week appointment this week, we are still both seeing about that. I remember the day I got glasses and discovered that the lights on the scoreboard at my brother's football game were actually numbers. Now, roughly 17 years later, I can see perfectly without any glasses or contacts. What a blessing!