So I went to visit the Lasik guy (Dr. Assil) yesterday, after having been told by my regular ophthalmologist that you can’t go swimming for 30 days after the procedure, so I was basically just feeling things out to see how it’d be.. seeing as how I’m getting married in a month and then we’re going swimming and scuba diving for a week, I’d figured that I’d have to wait until afterwards to get Lasik.

Not so! Dr. Assil said seven days - and with my short schedule, was prepared to give me an appointment on Thursday.. but I have an interview on Friday, and I’d rather not chance things that much.

So, I’m getting Lasik next Tuesday. Eep! I am excited.

Of course, my mom says “Yet another thing to be worried about right before you get laid off, and the wedding, and looking for a job, and traveling to Tahiti, and….”

But honestly? To me, it’s one less thing to worry about. No traveling with glasses + contacts + extra contacts + contact solution + eyedrops + glasses case. No being blind when I wake up at night. No worrying about contacts when scuba diving or swimming (OH MY GOD I CAN OPEN MY EYES UNDER WATER AND SEE).

And when my mom heard, she said, “I hope you don’t go to some quack because he’s cheap.” Dr Assil is NOT cheap, but every person I dealt with in his office was stellar, and I wasn’t just sloughed off on some jr dr there, Dr. Assil came in himself to check things out, and he does the procedure. That alone speaks volumes to me. Go click on his website. He’s the furthest from a quack I could find in LA, I think.