Thought it was about time to post my update. I had the previously aborted left eye done at the end of November. This time David used his brand spanking new custom laser with which he was more able to take into account the erroneous ablations of last June (see earlier reports). Thankfully all went well and David retrieved a difficult situation admirably (which shows the value of getting the right person when it comes to your eyes).

Anyhow, cutting a long story short, I have come form -9.00s in both eyes and last measurements (end December) showed left at 0.00 and right at +.25 ish. I was a bit concerned that as the right had moved from +2.00 to +0.25 that the left would have gone the same way - but there is no sign of that happening as of today. The thing to remember for you high myopic out there is that the correction is so great that getting to 0.00 requires quite a bit of luck as well. We all heal at different speeds. My right eye was done 4 months ago and it still continues to "fill in"...... and it hasn't finished yet. Definitions are becoming more acute with every week that passes - sometimes almost imperceptibly, but you know it's happening. this process can take months in cases like mine. This is inconvenient if you are working with PCs or you have to do a lot of reading. At my age (46) you might expect to have to use reading glasses. It seems that the short sightedness was hiding or delaying in some way the necessity for reading glasses (a muscular problem, not corneal) . I'm currently using a temporary +1 correction to read but as my eyes are still filling in, this might end up as final, it might be +.5 ... or it may not be necessary at all. But hey, who cares. That's nothing!!

I'm in for a test next week. I suspect I'll be put back on the steroids for a few weeks as the eye is still in recovery mode but I have to tell you I'm ecstatic. Since having the eyes done I've been kayaking in New Zealand and I'm off to Finland in February for a bit of "Hole in the Ice " (jumping in a freezing lake). I'm not telling you this to boast - but with -9.00s you tend to think twice about these things and you feel less inclined to take risks where you might lose you eyes (glasses). Now I don't. It's difficult to describe this feeling to those born with perfect vision. I'll keep you posted.