LASIK – a good option for parents and why #VisionGoals

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Parenting can be a difficult but rewarding experience, and every one of us can use all the help we can get.  One of the oddest experiences is definitely having glasses or corrective lenses and having kids.  It is amazing how many finger prints and smudges get on your glasses that are from little fingers.  It boggles the mind how many activities lead to glasses smashing onto the ground, including rough housing, playing  outside, water parks, even just helping cleaning up toys.  Each activity comes with it’s own unique glasses smashing experiences.  People think that the simple answer is “so don’t wear them during these occasions”.  Well for those of us ‘blessed’ with horrific vision, this is not possible, your family turns into blobs of color, and those three dimensional objects you want to grab at, quickly become flat and two dimensional.   It’s really not an option.

This is where LASIK eye corrective surgery comes in.  After a few weeks of recovery, you will have new eyes, where vision is as it should be without glasses or smudges.  No longer will you need a glasses case in the beach bag, a pair of glasses for the car, prescription sunglasses, a glasses repair kit at work and at home, or time spent trying to clean off those finger prints or smudges from little fingers.  These reasons may seem superficial, but another good reason is in an emergency situation in the middle of the night do you want to stumble about looking for your glasses or jump into help mode and make the situation less of an emergency.

Contact lenses are another possibility for getting rid of your glasses, but there are added cleaning rituals that need to be followed as well as more chemicals and stuff to carry around with you.

Some parent guided LASIK tips are below:
Have a friend, family member or babysitter come over to take care of the children on the day of your surgery and perhaps spend the night if your children need care during the night.
Have your special someone (spouse, significant other, mom, dad, bestie, etc.) drive you to the LASIK center, stay with you during your procedure, drive you home and make sure you rest afterward.
You’ll be able to shower the next day and get back to your normal routine but you shouldn’t exercise or do any heavy lifting for at least four days—get the kids to take out the trash.
Let the kids know they need to be careful around you: no pokes in the eye or roughhousing.
You won’t be able to take part in any contact sport for one week after surgery or swim for 10 days, so rest on the sidelines during family outings.
Remember to take your post-op drops for as long as your surgeon prescribes, usually four days or so.
Keep your eyes protected when outdoors on sunny days. Bonus! Have your family help you choose a cool new pair of nonprescription sunglasses.