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My vision has been getting worse this last year, and my iron sighted rifles weren't hitting where I was aiming, when I could see the sights, so I went to the eye doc.
Once I realized my eye doc was referring me to her buddies, so they all could have a bite of my insurance, I picked out the best laser eye surgery doc I could find, and made an appointment. It was an "eye opening" experience to say the least, pun intended.
Back in '97, I had a hospital supply cart loaded with 1500lbs of saline, roll down from the front of a 45ft trailer at about 10mph when it hit me. I was standing near the end of the trailer handing off another cart to the guy that was helping me. Never saw the one coming at me until I started to turn to my right, then lights out. Besides being knocked out, broken nose, dislocated jaw, and facial lacerations, it tore the vitrius in the back of my eyes from the impact. That gave me "floaters", and when I get tired, it's like having a couple of gnats flying around in front of your face.
The "previously overlooked" damage it did, was to the cornea in my right eye. When the doc is looking at a topographical map of your cornea, and says " This is interesting, I've never seen anything like this, how the hell do you see out of that eye?", it makes you a little nervous.
The cornea had a very pronounced "plateau", like a table top mountain just off center. My pupil was small enough to adjust to seeing partially around it. With the right eye working so hard to see, my left took over as dominate. That's the bad news, kinda.
The good news is, my cornea is thick enough to allow for 3-4 laser corrections, "IF" that ever became necessary. He told me when I walk out of his office after treatment, I will have 20/20 vision.
When I voiced my concern about my right eye getting the dominance back so I could shoot iron sights again, he did a test to show me I had nothing to worry about.
The usual procedure is to do "Mono Vision" correction, where one eye is adjusted for far sight, and the other to near sight. He didn't recommend that because I drive truck, and it could be a problem. He showed me what that would be like, with a pair of "try on" glasses. But first he switched the lenses. I felt like I was on a carnival ride when I stood up. When he switched them back, I could see like I did 30yrs ago. He told me that was because my brain was hardwired for my right eye to be dominate, and as soon as I have 20/20 in both eyes again, it will be once again!
One more appointment on the 24th to get precise measurements for the computer, and most likely the 10th for the surgery.
Anyone have this done, and did it make an improvement shooting your iron sighted milsurps? How about the Mono Vision?
Once I realized my eye doc was referring me to her buddies, so they all could have a bite of my insurance, I picked out the best laser eye surgery doc I could find, and made an appointment. It was an "eye opening" experience to say the least, pun intended.
Back in '97, I had a hospital supply cart loaded with 1500lbs of saline, roll down from the front of a 45ft trailer at about 10mph when it hit me. I was standing near the end of the trailer handing off another cart to the guy that was helping me. Never saw the one coming at me until I started to turn to my right, then lights out. Besides being knocked out, broken nose, dislocated jaw, and facial lacerations, it tore the vitrius in the back of my eyes from the impact. That gave me "floaters", and when I get tired, it's like having a couple of gnats flying around in front of your face.
The "previously overlooked" damage it did, was to the cornea in my right eye. When the doc is looking at a topographical map of your cornea, and says " This is interesting, I've never seen anything like this, how the hell do you see out of that eye?", it makes you a little nervous.
The cornea had a very pronounced "plateau", like a table top mountain just off center. My pupil was small enough to adjust to seeing partially around it. With the right eye working so hard to see, my left took over as dominate. That's the bad news, kinda.The good news is, my cornea is thick enough to allow for 3-4 laser corrections, "IF" that ever became necessary. He told me when I walk out of his office after treatment, I will have 20/20 vision.
When I voiced my concern about my right eye getting the dominance back so I could shoot iron sights again, he did a test to show me I had nothing to worry about.
The usual procedure is to do "Mono Vision" correction, where one eye is adjusted for far sight, and the other to near sight. He didn't recommend that because I drive truck, and it could be a problem. He showed me what that would be like, with a pair of "try on" glasses. But first he switched the lenses. I felt like I was on a carnival ride when I stood up. When he switched them back, I could see like I did 30yrs ago. He told me that was because my brain was hardwired for my right eye to be dominate, and as soon as I have 20/20 in both eyes again, it will be once again!
One more appointment on the 24th to get precise measurements for the computer, and most likely the 10th for the surgery.
Anyone have this done, and did it make an improvement shooting your iron sighted milsurps? How about the Mono Vision?
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