Still, I have no regrets. My corneas are thick enough that I could do it once more. Even if I went back, I think I would do it again. I didn’t want to spend all of my twenties wearing glasses I didn’t want. The money, effort, and time would have felt wasted. I would have done it even if my corneas had been thin... Surely our wonderful doctors will develop a new vision-correction procedure someday, right? My vision is about 0.5 now, but a blurry world isn’t so bad.
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