To Lasik or not to lasik?

I'm a four-eyed monster. Have been since I was in primary school. Thankfully, there was such a thing as contact lens, albeit an expensive alternative for a school going kid. I couldn't believe it when my mum agreed to buy me my first contacts in secondary school! I was thankful that the pair of plastic specs would no longer sit on my bridge and push against the pimples on the face caused by the raging hormones! However, lately, with slight long-sightedness setting in, I've pretty much junked my contacts and gone back to being a four-eyed monster. It's so much easier to slip off the glasses to read fine print as opposed to squinting in my contacts.

Girlfriends around me have started going for their Lasik surgery. They swear it's the best thing that's ever happened to them.
Of course I've started to think about it too......but I dunno....I have my doubts.

What motivates a person to go for Lasik? The first word I would think of is vanity. Nothing to be shy about. We're all vain to a certain extent. You do look in a mirror don't you?

I'm not sure who's the original source of this quote but as a younger human, I recall reading this in one of local author, Robert Yeo's books: "Guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses".
How true is that saying? Probably very true for the majority of the male species I know, are in tandem when it comes to the makings of a hot female - and I think wearing glasses is not one of the requirements.
Why do they never say the girls don't make passes at guys who wear glasses? I guess it's because it's not true. (Just look at dear old Harry Potter!?) Although Harry Potter is not my kind of male, I've always had a thing for guys in glasses!

Anyway, back to the feminine form of the four-eyed monster. Coming from an all woman, I think I'm sexy and therefore I am; glasses or no! I digress but no one has yet told me I'm not desirable because I wear glasses. If anything, we are our worst enemy.

Why am I hesitating about going for lasik when prices have already fallen to affordable levels?
I do change my glasses once a year or once every two years and not because they're broke. Usually it's only because I'm vain. I also still have my boxes of trusty contacts with me. They enable me to use the cheap sunglasses which are knocking about in the glove compartment of the car and allow me to use my not so cheap sunglasses lying in my handbag.

I have NOTHING against going for plastic or cosmetic surgery but I think for Lasik, I feel a need to validate going for it, seeing as there are complications that may arise from an apparently simple and quick procedure. Some side effects are dry eyes and night-vision problems and some people start seeing halos or glares, apparently affecting them to a level where it's enough to drive them over the edge. I think the complication that worries me most is having a sort of a post surgery crumpled flap! (Yes, they have to cut the flap!) Basically, there is a chance the cornea may get scarred causing your vision to be even poorer than pre-surgery.

I know, I know, many who have gone through lasik say they see 20/20 now and the whole procedure was chicken feet. But I guess I'm still chicken.

Here are some links to Lasik horror stories. I don't claim these writings to be true. Remember though, this is the internet. Read everything with a pinch of salt and like it's NOT the Gospel truth pleeze.....

http://www.usaeyes.org/lasik/faq/lasik-flap-heal.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/fashion/13SKIN.html

http://www.afterlasik.com/My_Story.html

http://www.afterlasik.com/blog/