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Okay so if I want to read anything I can see now. we got to be about that far away

to actually be able to properly read anything. I am SD and a couple of months ago

I made a video about my experiences with LASIK. And I have been getting a ton of

questions so rather than answer each one individually, I'm right here and I'm

gonna answer them for you. I had LASIK done about six years ago and I ended up

with some pretty bad complications. And I also have to wear contacts again. But no

not any contacts, I have to wear special contacts and they're especially

expensive. I'll elaborate on those in a sec. And I will also show you the crazy

plungers that I have to use to put them in and to take them out. And as a heads

up I'm literally gonna show you, so if you're squeamish about like seeing

something touching someone's eyeball, you've been warned. But first I want to

address the different comments and questions that I've gotten from the

other video. First off no, LASIK is not safe at all ever. It does not matter how

thick or thin your corneas are but yes you could make an argument that if your

corneas are on the thicker side that your chances of getting complications

are reduced but they're not eliminated. I ended up with a condition called LASIK

induced ectasia, which happens in about one in every

20,000 surgeries. And you might be thinking "oh well 20,000 that's a lot of

surgeries" well think about how many times LASIK is performed every single

year. And not only every single year but every single year for the past 20 years

all over the world. And LASIK induced ectasia is only correctable by having

another surgery called corneal cross-linking which actually just got

FDA approval as of like a few months ago. When I had it done insurance would not

cover it, more on that later. At first I was told that I had a

condition called the keratoconus which is a degenerative eye disease that's

caused by genetics. Now both of them cause a weakening of your cornea which

causes it to start to bulge out like a football. And they seem similar yeah sure

you could say that but the thing is is one is caused by like your mom and your

dad and the other one is caused by you choosing to have an elective surgery

that at the the day isn't necessary. And your eye

doctor will tell you that LASIK is perfectly safe and that you're a good

candidate because well money that's that's why, money. And you'll kind of

notice too that a lot of times they're still wearing glasses. And also so just

because you or somebody that you know doesn't have complications right now

doesn't mean you're in the clear. A lot of people have been saying things like

"oh well I had LASIK five months ago and I'm totally fine, my visions 20/15." Well no

you're not fine I wish I could say that you are but you're not. A lot of people

think that they are until they end up like me either six months or even 20

years down the road. I didn't notice anything was wrong until a year later.

And go look at the comments there's a lot of people who are exactly like me

who thought that they had a successful surgery and then they woke up like a

couple months later and they're like "huh, my vision is kind of blurry and then it

just snowballed from there." And the company that you go with and the price

that you pay are two non factors. Everybody's been asking me what company

that I went with what company did your surgery? Well it doesn't matter what

company did my surgery. I mean people were saying things like "well that's what

we need to go to a good doctor and actually have a good surgeon do it". No, uh uh.

Your corneas don't care. LASIK, PRK, LASEK, intra LASIK, SMILE, none of

those matter either. There's a half a dozen different types of laser eye

surgery, but you only got one type of cornea. Alright so let's do this let's

talk about the lenses that I have to wear now. LASIK induced ectasia isn't

corrected by normal lenses, so I can't walk in to Target and be like "hey, can I

get like a $25 box of soft contact lenses?" What they are is they're hard

lenses called sclera lenses and they're shaped like a bowl. What I have to do is

I have to put this preservative-free solution in them and what that does is

it creates a new surface on my eye for light to come in to actually hit the

back of my retina properly. They come with two different plungers one that I

use to put them in and one that I use to take them out now the one that I use to

put them in I actually don't use anymore and I'll explain why the one that you

use to put them in it's just this little plunger that you kind of use

chin with you put the contact on top of it take the plunger and you go right on

your eyeball. It works, it's fine but I don't know I wasn't really a huge

fan of them. What I usually do is I just take it and I put it right on the tip of

my fingertips and I'll just kind of hover over like that just right on my

eye but the plunger that I used to take them out I need that one I can't take

these things out without it once these things are on my eyes they're on my eyes

that's it there nope nope that's it. Now one thing that they do correct but not

completely which I got asked a couple of times are things like glare and halos

and starbursts. They make them better but they don't

completely eliminate them by any means. And also to everybody was freaking out

for whatever reason okay just because you have halos and starbursts and glare

now normally without ever having LASIK done or even without wearing contacts or

glasses that's not necessarily a bad thing sometimes it just happens

naturally for people. So when I was describing those symptoms people are

freaking out like "oh my God do I have something wrong?"

Well first off if you do think something is wrong go talk to a doctor, second off

no you probably don't. Now the surgery that I had done the corneal

cross-linking and these contact lenses are both really really really expensive

the surgery was about nine thousand dollars and these contact lenses are two

grand. But what happened is the company ended up ponying up and they covered the

cost of both of those, so I was actually just really grateful that I was able to

see it again and that's a big reason why I really wasn't all that upset about it

everybody kind of kept asking me why I had such a positive attitude about it well

that's kind of why because it could have been much worse, I could have been in

that situation and I could have had to pay the cost for both of those

out-of-pocket myself which I couldn't do that.

Yo I'm Stylish Dad I'm not rich Stylish Dad. And could I have sued this

company? I don't know maybe who knows but really at the end of the day to me I

learned that life is just life's way too short life's way too short to just sit

around having a pity party for yourself feeling sorry for yourself

no I'd rather just enjoy life time with my family and my kid and just

move on. But don't get me wrong when I found out that I had a degenerative eye

disease that wasn't caused by genetics and was caused by the surgery yeah I was

pissed. I was upset because I was lied to I mean having dumb luck coming down with

keratoconus a degenerative disease, okay that sucks but actually having this

happen because of something that I chose to do that I didn't actually need to do?

Contacts weren't really all that bad nor were glasses they were just kind of an

inconvenience. Okay you ready for this because I'm about to take them out, you're

about to see my eyeball, you've been warned. alright so I uh I can't see

sh**. Oh my God this sucks. see I never I never don't wear these

during the day so this is my first time like actually seeing what things look

like it looks like Vaseline is smeared all over my eyes. And remember when I was

talking about my phone? Yeah, I can't I can't see my phone this? Nope,

otherwise I've got some notifications here I don't know what they say I have

no clue I think that's a voicemail yep I got a voicemail and I got two missed

calls great. I had to put them back in so that

I could actually see the lens of the camera to make sure that I'm looking at

the lens and not the view finder. And once I take these things out at night it

is lights out for me it is game over nope

Carale is he's nope he's m.i.a he's decommissioned there is nothing that I

can do. I can't even do things anymore like watch TV at night or watch a movie

before bed or play on my iPad like I just I have to take these out and I

gotta just go to sleep. But my biggest fear is in an emergency what am I gonna

do? I am worthless without these things in I can't see anything

I honestly you gotta just like throw me over your shoulder if there's a fire cuz

I can't no I can't see. Could you imagine someone trying to

throw my big ass over their shoulder and carry me downstairs move my lower back

just hurting thinking about that. I'm not gonna be of much help if I gotta use

like echolocation to get around. So don't copy me, don't have LASIK, stick with

glasses or contacts really at the end of the day they're not that bad and once

you have these complications for a lot of them there's really nothing they can

do about them at all, there's nothing that they can do.

My sight is now irreversible. Anyway, my eyes kind of feel like death I'm gonna

go lie down for a little bit SD out, deuces!