i’ve been wearing glasses since surgery last september, and every time i take them off when i'm using my laptop or anytime really, it makes me realise how much difficult I made life for myself for nearly two years (left eye's cornea was progressively deforming) because i did not have it in me to get help and face the reality that i'll need surgery again. all the art I created in 2022-2023 was despite me only having one semi-functional cornea. today, when I think about what I went through on a daily basis, i can’t help but grieve for my past self. at the same time i'm also relieved that this time last year i finally told my parents i can't see well at all and i may need surgery to stop left eye's cornea from getting worse. I have a friend to thank for getting me to that mind set where I finally asked for help, and i'm grateful for him every single day. send him some good juju if you're still reading this.
for those of you who are reading about this part of my life for the first time, if you're curious what's up here is the tweet where i shared about what happened a long time ago.
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the only silver lining of my corneas being borked because of LASIK is that i can genuinely say ‘sorry i didn’t see you’ and i wouldn’t even be lying best social anxiety hack in hindsight
Forever borked?
forever, yeah.
Noooo, that sucks! how long ago did you get the surgery? I've been questioning getting it for a while now
Butch I’m blind
Wait what they messed up your eyes with lasik? That’s scary
yeah 😞 the tweets at the bottom of this article have a tldr about what happened and the article itself has the tldr of what's followed since (sorry i don't have a shorter tldr. i should prob ask gpt to write me something instead of making people read so much) https://paragraph.com/@priyanka/cor
cc @dee21
lol same here 😂
wait no way. what happened to your corneas??
LASIK gives you hindsight? Amazing!
ashdlslkaask im so happy someone picked up on my very intentional pun 😭
Hurray!
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they asked me to stay positive. this is me being positive.
Wait how did LASIK bork your corneas thats literally the opposite of what they should be doing, im genuinely sorry you had to go through that
thank you. i just @ u under a cast where i shared what's happened in the last decade+
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as a photographer, losing contrast sensitivity is the second most devastating side effect of LASIK i’ve had to deal with since 2012. i remember crying when i realized that a decade went by without knowing that the photographs im editing as per what i see are not what you all see.
pleaseeee don’t get LASIK done unless it’s crucial for your eye safety somehow. there’s just so many things that could go wrong. just wear your damn glasses or lenses. it’s even cool to be a nerd these days.
damn that sucks. I'm sorry. what do you think is the first most devastating side effect?
o boy. losing both my vision bc of irreversible distortion of corneas would be the first. the right one went first, then the left followed 8 years later. if you’re curious to know more, i wrote an article about it last year. (there’s a tweet in the end that explains it in more detail)
my uncle saw me on facetime after longtime and i was wearing glasses. he said “chasma sara lage che, pehrje roj” 😭 i wish someone would’ve said that to me 12 years ago before i got LASIK done and fucked up my eyes for life😭😭😭 i know we can’t live life thinking about what would’ve could’ve should’ve been but sometimes life just hits you right in the feels okay. gujju to english translation: you look good in glasses. wear em everyday okay?
after *a long time
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My daughter wanted to get the Lasic Surgery done, my cousin is a Lasic surgeon, I am little sceptical and keep telling her glasses looks good on her. Or let's try contact lens for a while😃
What happened with the LASIK?
ive written about it here. if you scroll down to the last part there here: https://paragraph.xyz/@priyanka/cor
thanks for sharing, hopefully get well soon with your eye. so not sure still what happen, the LASIK surgery caused that or something else?
cornea chronicles, life with post lasik ectasia make sure you read the article online bc the frame doesn't show you all the tweets i've added for context https://paragraph.xyz/@priyanka/cor
Obviously you wouldn't wish for this experience, but I can't help feeling like the impact it's had on your art and process is extremely interesting. Yes, we all incorporate and work through our struggles in our art, but this is literally, physically tied to your craft. You have a truly unique perspective.
appreciate you taking the time to read all of it, steen. i do agree with you bc i wonder about it all the time wrt how my photography(shooting and editing) would be different if it wasn’t for all of this and also question what my “why” would’ve been in an alt life where my sight was normal. 🥹🥺🥺
Thank you for sharing. The fun things to ponder eh?
Ty for sharing reading rn
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Hope screen time doesn’t make it any worse sounds serious 😭