Laser Eye Surgery

I.CAN.SEE. Enough said really. Yesterday I went for laser eye surgery, today I have perfect vision. Totally awesome. I have wanted to get this done since about grade 7 when I first heard that it was possible to get your eyesight back. Financially this obviously was not possible and my parents don’t help me out financially for anything, so I was on my own. I started wearing contacts in grade 11 but over the past year or two I have developed an allergy to them. I have tried different brands and switching to dailies, but nothing worked. I wanted to claw my eyes out whenever I put the contacts in, and I was going to end up with so much scar tissue on my eyelids that I would only be able to wear glasses for the rest of my life. In the life of triathlon this was not going to be possible. My eyesight was 20/400, so pretty bad, and there was no way I was going to be able to do the swim without being able to see, let alone find my bike after getting out of the water. So I forked out a lot of dough and went and got the surgery. I have absolutely no regrets, this was worth every penny. The surgery went great, although I was pretty scared during the procedure, what with instruments in my eyes and lasers and you hear the person beside the surgeon timing the procedure, it sounded pretty ominous. “43 seconds….okay 10 more seconds” I’m thinking in my head “What happens if it takes him more than 10 seconds?” Anyways, all was fine and I would recommend this procedure to anyone. I slept/dozed most of the afternoon because my eyes were sore, but I was totally fine when I woke up this morning.

In other triathlon news, I am officially part of Barrie Shepley’s C3 High Performance Team! I am super excited about this and feel that I should be able to achieve some really amazing things under his coaching. Tentatively we have talked about me doing some draft-legal racing as well as some local Southern Ontario races. The objective of the U23 draft-legal racing is for “me to get my ass kicked” as Barrie put it. It’ll be great though, definitely a huge motivator and it will be great to meet more people my age who have the same level of commitment to the sport that I do.

Unfortunately the stress fracture still has me out of action. I tried to run last week but it did not go well, as in my leg has clearly not yet healed. I will continue to pedal away on the bike and some day I will be back to pounding the pavement.