Posted on 04/20/2009 12:49:32 PM PDT by JoeProBono
My Lasik vision correction that I had just over a year ago has increased both my hunting success and confidence.
Before my eye surgery, my vision was beyond terrible. It was to the point where my glasses were heavy on my face and causing indentations on the bridge of my nose and above both ears! I'm sure there are enough of you out there who know this can present a special challenge when hunting.
Let's recap, shall we? It's typically cold when you hunt. You like to stay warm in the cold. Staying warmer longer increases your time on stand, thus your chance of seeing game animals. Because of my glasses, I had to choose either warmth or being able to see. I could not have both! Covering the mouth and nose keeps you much warmer but that also fogs you up in a hurry. Leave the mouth and nose uncovered and you could see better, but you could also count on an early departure in time to catch the tail end of the breakfast buffet! At one point, I remember thinking I had just as good a chance at seeing deer from the cabin without fogged up lenses as I did in the tree stand.
I decided to make the call to schedule an "informational session" with the Lasik Plus folks in Maple Grove. The next thing you know, I'm walking out a new man with better than 20/20 vision! The procedure was quick and painless; the recovery very tolerable topped off with great customer service.
Since then, I've been shooting with more confidence, maximizing my time on the stand, and enjoying the hunting experience even more than before. I know every morning I roll out of that warm sleeping bag, I have a great chance of seeing something even in foggy damp conditions! For anyone else out there who struggles with optics/lens fogging, I would highly recommend learning more about the Lasik options.
Our doctor has free tune-ups should we decide to go through it again. While it was quite simple I don't know if I could go through it again.
I am a big baby and even though there was ZERO pain, the knowledge of what they are doing sends me over the edge. The 1/2 valium they gave me wasn't enough to keep me really chilled. It took the edge off but I could have used the other half.
We have both - hust recently - had to buy "cheater" reading glasses but that is very minor.
Wish lasik was covered by my vision plan. Makes sense to me since in the long run it’s cheaper than the money they pay every year for contacts/glasses.
Course on the other hand I may be less apt to go to the eye doctor every six months if I could see fine so may end up not paying for the eye insurance and just self insure
And if you hold out a little longer, you catch the TALE end of the breakfast buffet.
"You shoulda been here earlier. The cornbread was to DIE for! Uncle Harry went back fifteen times and every time he filled his plate with cornbread and sweet butter."
I had the monovision treatment done.
It worked great, except that I now have a slight reliance on reading glasses (but would’ve needed them eventually anyway).
What are you hunting?
I always think of the Opti-Grab from “The Jerk”. One day all of these people who had laser surgery are suddenly going to become cross-eyed.
How has it been? I’ve heard that people who’ve undergone this operation tend to see artifacts around bright objects like lightbulbs.
I’m not confident about the skills of a surgeon being able to shape and gloss the eye’s cornea to what it would be, naturally.
We hunt off snowmachine alot when it's minus 40; just give me my beaver hat & mittens; don't need no doctor, ha.
The doctor does nothing except set the computer and the program does it all.
It took then 38 seconds per eye to complete the procedure and about 4 days before I had perfect vision.
I'm still 20/15 but had to get old men type reading glasses {death is the only cure for old age and I prefer to wait}.
I love being able to see everything in the woods but the best reward is being able to read the time on the clock in the middle of the night without trying to find glasses.
Thrill number one was dropping my glasses in the recycling box on the way out of the operation. Thrill number two was waking up the next morning, sweeping the hotel curtains back, and seeing a seaplane land in Coal Harbor and realizing I could read the side numbers. Whoa.
It absolutely improved my shooting. And driving. Yes, I'm over 40 and do need reading glasses as they must have warned me about at least 50 times. Ten-dollar cheaters and I don't really even need them that bad. What a difference!
Im blind as a bat too but with my contact lenses I seem to have no troubles with fogging up or my time in the tree stand being affected.
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