hello friends coming to you from chicken yet again i actually currently have the car in
auto steer now um but i'm headed to the spa but i wanted to check in because i'm actually getting
lasik tomorrow which i'm really excited for i've been wearing glasses all week in preparation
and the reason why i have to wear glasses is because my vision is so bad i'm like literally on
the brink where i can't even do lasik anymore we went in for a consultation a couple of weeks back
just to see if we were eligible i went in with my girlfriend jenny
she actually has even worse vision than me and she has to get kind of like the top tier type of
surgery which is called icl glossy is getting prk which is kind of like the tier below that and then
lasik is kind of like the base tier that pretty much anyone that gets corrective eye surgery
gets and so i'm lucky enough that i'm like barely able to get lasik what makes you a good candidate
for lasik is if your vision is worse they have to cut off a bigger part of your cornea and so
by wearing glasses and not wearing contacts for a full week it allows my cornea to almost
like expand to its maximum maximum and that allows them like more freedom when it comes to the actual
surgery so it sounds really scary but we wanted we watched a lot of educational videos on it and
with the technology nowadays and the laser and how accurate they are it made me feel so at ease with
the surgery and even with ginny and glossy getting different types of procedures theirs
is obviously a little bit more intensive and i put them in different tiers because they're different
price points as well so mine being like the least expensive the recoveries like same day you're able
to see and stuff like that so i'm really excited i literally all the campaigns i had to shoot this
week i just have been shooting them blind i don't like the way that my glasses look so i just been
shooting them all blind so i'm really excited my vision is pretty bad i have negative seven and a
half in the side negative eight in this eye and it's been stable for the last few years so i've
been thinking about getting lasik but i honestly thought i was not able to because my vision was so
bad and it would be too expensive but the fact that we're able to do this now it's really not
that expensive i think total it comes out to be just under 6k and the place where i'm getting my
surgery at i'm also working with them as well so they're able to comp it for me completely which is
incredible but if it wasn't for that i would honestly pay for the surgery
on my own anyways because it's something that i've been wanting to do and especially with all
the travel that i've been doing this surgery is literally going to change my life and
not having to wake up and search for my glasses being able to swim and like open my
eyes underwater not that i would even do that but just like the freedom of being able to do that to
travel without having to bring multiple contacts contact solution glasses just in case like it just
is gonna make my life so much easier so it's a day before my surgery i'm gonna take you guys with me
tomorrow and i'm just really excited today's the day having a quick little bite for breakfast
and then i'm gonna change and we're off wow nice shoes i'm wearing the same ones oh twins
delicious
exciting
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hello good morning it is currently 7 am we just got back to the office and i'm gonna go and have
a little checkup today hello friends little update so i just got out of that appointment earlier and
they just checked my eyes to make sure everything was okay there's no infections or anything like
that but the procedure yesterday went really well i went into it like a little bit nervous obviously
more so excited but at the actual doctor's office they made us watch a lot of informational videos
and they talked us through everything that was going to happen you know like what the lasers
were gonna do and what outcomes we should expect and so i feel like i went into it really informed
which is really nice and every step of the way they kind of told me like everything that's going
on we're gonna check your eyes now okay now we're gonna take you into the treatment room
there's gonna be like suction cups for eyeballs and they added some numbing i was awake the whole
time which i was a little bit nervous about because you're just sitting there like okay
knowing everything that goes into lasik like pretty much how the procedure works is with lasik
they use a laser to kind of cut a flap in your cornea and then your cornea opens up and then from
there there's another laser that goes on and kind of helps to even out your eyeball like the surface
of your eyeball and that's what allows you to see better and improve your vision and so being awake
knowing everything that was going on every step of the way was a little bit terrifying but also
i kind of knew what was happening next so i wasn't like super scared you know so anyways the whole
procedure took probably a total of like three minutes for both eyes so it was super fast very
in and out the thing that took the longest was all the tests that they had to run and a lot of like
the sit down and explaining and then they gave me a little treatment plans all day yesterday as soon
as we got back i just rested didn't go on my phone i wasn't supposed to read or do anything like that
so i just literally slept like all day yesterday and so today waking up so early wasn't that big
of a deal because i felt like i was really well rested and you can see my eyes today it's a little
bit scary but it's a little bit like bloodshot and i feel like because of the suction cups the doctor
was saying that it was a little bit of bruising that was happening around the eye which is totally
normal and my vision today is pretty clear it's a little bit fuzzy around the edges but as time
goes on your vision is gonna get even better and better and obviously the redness is gonna
go away and i have eyedrops that i'm supposed to use i have like a face shield that i'm supposed
to wear when i go to bed at night just to prevent myself from rubbing my eyes but all in all i still
can't believe that this is my vision now i can see without needing contacts or glasses it feels to me
like i'm wearing contacts and i've just kept them in my eyes so it hasn't really felt real yet but
i'm excited i feel like the whole procedure was so quick and easy and painless like it didn't hurt at
all and i would recommend it to anyone dr wu was like very calming and she even said that i was
like one of her most calmest patients ever more so because my vision has been so bad my entire life
that i was willing to pretty much put up with anything to correct it and it really was such
a painless process that i would recommend it to anyone so glossy and ginny are going to come in
in the next few weeks and correct their vision and they are doing like i said icl and prk and
their videos are going to be up soon so i'll go ahead and link it down below if you guys are not
candidates of lasik and you're gonna be getting one of those other ones i feel like they're
gonna vlog it and be super helpful as well so i'm actually here at verve coffee with brandon we're
gonna grab a little bit of coffee and today is like my first full day out about with my eyeballs
and i do have a little bit of light sensitivity and i'm not supposed to wear makeup for a week
which is why i have these on and when i go out in the sun i'm probably gonna actually wear like
actual sunglasses sunglasses but i think because of my eyes are still a little bit bloodshot i'm
just gonna keep these on all day going indoors and stuff like that so let's go get some coffee
hello friends good morning today is tuesday may 3rd so it has been i think four days since my
operation so i'm going out for my final checkup today this is today's cute little outfit i have
my white dior bag but also my little laser eye center little fanny pack that has all my eye drops
and goodies i need for today let me show you a better look because i'm proud of this outfit okay
she's cute but we're headed to my doctor's office for the final checkup she put like clear lenses
into my eyes they're kind of just like blank contact lenses and i think it helps to protect
my eyes and she's going to remove them today we head out to seattle tomorrow have the bags packed
already because our flight is really really early so i'm going to take you guys into the office with
me you'll meet dr wu and i'll put in some of the stuff that she has to say so time for my eye drops
first eye drop that i have to use is this thing called retain and this is mainly for any dryness
that i have and i'm supposed to use it every single hour so i've been actually pretty good
about this my eye doctor said i could do it multiple times within the hour if i need it if
i just feel like my eyes are really dry we want to make sure that we are hydrating them as much
as possible we also watch the season finale of um bridgeton two days ago and i cried so much so hard
i cried so hard and so much so artificial tears were not necessary and then the other eye drops
that i have to do this is every four to six hours is this one and it's called i can't
even read my version so blurry uh i don't know it's um i don't think you can pronounce that
is it dripping okay well anyways this thing is now leaking but this is kind of like an
antibiotic and helps speed up healing and all that jazz but
because it is kind of like a milkier solution you have to shake it before use
this one hurts a little bit it doesn't hurt but it almost like it like stings a little bit but
i think it's because of that antibiotics so this has been my life for the last like
three or four days which is great i feel like there's a little bit of discomfort
only because the doctor put like that clear contact lens in my eye and i think once she
takes it out hopefully i'll feel a world of a difference but even before during and after the
surgery there really wasn't that much discomfort she had given me like a tylenol with codeine
in it in case i needed like extra pain medication or anything like that but
i didn't even use it because there wasn't even any pain i needed it for and then also
in my goody bag this is like what i came home with the day of my surgery i have my little shields
this is what i'm supposed to go to sleep with and i literally like tape it to my face and that way
while i'm sleeping and rolling around sometimes i'll like sleep with my face like in my pillow
having this on prevents anything from like getting in my eye from like rubbing the night before i
didn't put enough tape and it fell off while i was sleeping and i woke up with like really
really red and dry eyes because my eyes were just rubbing against everything and so immediately
after surgery you want to make sure you're always protecting your eyes and preventing anything like
that from happening so now i use obviously a lot of tape to prevent that from happening so it came
with extra tape in here we have my fuji sunglasses which these are actually just like generic
sunglasses for when i go outside but i obviously have other sunglasses that i use i have they gave
me a whole pack of the retain artificial tears eye drops and i have my prescription strength
eye drops that i have so currently we are getting ready to go to seattle tomorrow and we're going to
be there for just under a week but we're actually there for a wedding i'm going to be a bridesmaid
in cindy boo's wedding which i'm really excited for that but brandon needs to find something to
wear to the wedding he needs to find a suit so that's that's what we're doing now for the point
it's just a little dry which is normal all right well how was it at home like
it was good super comfortable like my vision obviously is still a little bit blurry so how
long does it take for it to it can still be at least like a week before everything is stabilized
and then now that we took the contacts out it'll be faster okay yeah and then the redness
the redness can take a while sometimes even a couple weeks it's like a bruise on the eye when
we do the suction um and each eye can kind of recover faster so i already see your left eyes
doing better but that's totally normal so don't be worried about that and then i thought it would
be funny if we like answered some of the stuff that people were saying on instagram okay like
some of the questions that people had um like one girl was saying like her doctor said she might not
be able to do it yeah and you think a lot of the times they say that because they're like
yeah i think that's when i actually to you because i was mentioning that you know every doctor has
a different purpose right so optometrists they don't do any sort of eye surgery they don't do
the basic right thing so i have a lot of patients who come here like later in life and they say oh
i didn't do this for years because i was always told you know my prescription wasn't stable or
that i wasn't ready or it was too high or i had a stigmatism you know just all these things that are
missed and they aren't real and so my number one thing is if you're interested in lasik you have
to see someone who actually performs lipstick because everyone sees an optometrist and gets
advice from them and it's like the end-all be-all but you have to realize they don't perform lasik
they don't even do the surgery at all so i just say you know it's important to get the right
information to go to the right person and then like hypothetically if my eyes were to get worse
would i be able to do lasik again or is it just like so yeah in a very small percentage of
patients if you require like a touch-up which is like for example you have a very high prescription
that's where we see it mostly people with really high corrections um it might be hard to nail it
the first time so you might be left with like a little bit residual and so it's perfectly you know
normal to be able to do a touch-up and it's pretty straightforward for us so we just actually re-lift
your flap and then do a little bit more laser on there but the thing that people ask about a lot is
later down the road and why is my vision changing why is my lasik going bad so i always tell people
there are different processes as we get older and when we're young that's why lasik is great
when you're like your age you're young and you can enjoy it for a long time but when
you start hitting like 40s and 50s other things start to happen like you can get a cataract so
those are totally separate things so your lasik is still there and it's still permanent it'll
never change but other problems in different parts of your eyes can start making the vision change
and then is it possible for people like if people are scared of the surgery
for them to have anesthesia or be put under no because anesthesia you know that you get an iv
is actually more harmful and dangerous than like the surgery that we do itself yeah so
knocking you out for such a short period of time would be much more risky to your body
than the procedure and having gone through it like i'm sure you can attest to it yeah that
it wouldn't be worth it yeah go through all that trouble yeah so if people are nervous i usually
offer the xanax and that just kind of mellows you out and then if there are people that are
interested like price range and average well it all differs unfortunately because it's like
depending on what you qualify for that's why i say just come in so that we can tell you
i mean you know from your friends too everyone was a different procedure that we ended up
with and so all of those are different prices so it's just hard to give a range because you
don't want to scare people off either something that they don't even qualify for right yeah okay
cool thank you yeah you're welcome hopefully you guys were able to hear most of the conversation
with dr wu she is incredible and i'm seeing a lot of people comment on instagram and tick
tock that they were terrified of the surgery they're scared of it hurting i actually have
astigmatism as well and that was able to be corrected from the lasik surgery so overall
could not recommend it enough and i'll go ahead and link dr wu socials as well as laser eye center
where i got my surgery and if you guys have any more questions leave them down below i'll be happy
to answer them and brand i are actually at amboy we just picked up some burgers so we're gonna have
and a hot dog and a hot dog we're gonna get a little bit of lunch
found myself in