Sorry to come in late but I had the surger almost a year ago. I had my surgery in Feb of 08 and have loved it. So far no problems although your first post has scared the bejeezus out of me Fungo.
I wore glasses since I was like 7 or 8 years old (i'm now 35) and couldn't see squat without them. It was a real problem playing sports because in Little League I had to have bifocals and I'm up there batting and all of a sudden I see two balls coming at me. No wonder I didn't get a hit my first two years of LL. Football was just as bad because I could barely see the other team and know which guy to block.
I tried contacts but my eyesight was so bad they couldn't give me soft lenses so I went with semi-hard and never could get used to wearing them so went back to glasses after a month. Plus I have abnormally dry eyes or something which hurt me wearing contacts.
One day back in January I got a flyer in the mail advertising no interest payments for 2 years so I decided to check in on it. Went for the appointment and they said I was perfect candidate.
Let me say I was very nervous because I have never had any kind of surgery at all. My best friend came 6 hours to drive me around. He actually got to watch the surgery because the waiting room had windows into the operating room. The weirdest part for me was smelling my eye buring when the laser was going into my eye.
After the surgery we went outside and it wasn't that too bad. There was a Hooters just down the road from the hospital so we decided to go there. By the time I got inside the restaurant I couldn't open my eyes and not because it hurt but just felt weird. So I had a great meal but a somewhat wasted trip to Hooters because I couldn't see the waitresses.
I took an 45 minute nap on the trip home and then another 2 hour nap after I got home and when I woke up from the last nap I could see so much better. We ended up going out to my school and shooting hoops in the gym. I still couldn't make any shots so I guess it's skill since I ruled out poor eyesight.
It's been almost a year since the surgery and it was the best thing I ever did. I would highly recommend anyone with bad eyesight should check into it.