“Oh, the laser doesn’t cut your cornea - it just blasts away at it after they cut a flap in your cornea using a blade :) “
They now have “all-laser LASIK” that doesn’t use a blade.
That was one thing I made sure of before they said I was PRK only.
Everyone I've talked to who has had it done that way had a harder recovery than I did; much more pain and burning. I tell people I recommend using a blade, as long as it's the Zero Compression Keratome from Bausch & Lomb. It's a little creepy, but I'll take that if it makes the recovery easy.