The eight year old girl has myopia and needs glasses

By: Mercedes Díaz. Mérida, Venezuela

Given the novelty to receive some beautiful glasses, I feel happy, every time I look in the mirror, She looks herself again and again. The girl goes to school and there in the breaks between games and jokes, comes the word “Four eyes” and then begins to feel bad with the consequent  discontinuous use of her pretty lenses and finally, the total abandonment of these at the bottom of school package.

Adolescence, youth, maturity… use lenses in extreme necessity. Then, she discover and enjoy contact lenses, Great advancing of Science !, wonder of wonders! Not feel anything in the eyes, but… irritation to a particle dust; lenses are run or hurt; fall and is a feat safely find them: many die crushed by the treads are looking for, dragged by broom or eaten by the dog.

“Myopia can be corrected by a surgery” big news of the millennium. Laser surgery is a prodigy, extraordinary invention which ended with the trauma of operations.

The girl, and many years latter, gets into the hands of Dr. George Antzoulatos, the great magician of vision, and operated while I live the unforgettable experience of laser.

First: Cleaning my eyes and several drops, simple surgical clothing, more drops and then is looking forward to enter “laser enclosure”. There’s a group of people waiting to be operated. Some are facing a fearful attitude,  or the usual behavior before an intervention Surgical. I wander mentally, I relax and I visualize success for my benefit view.

Finally in the “laser surgical room”, comfortable bed, a drop, a little device that immobilizes the eye, another drop. Then look a little blip, hear the order “laser” followed by similar to a soft humming sound and operation concludes.

Then, with a clear protective, face street and check that everything is clear, the perfection, equal or better than with lenses. Approximately a month latter vision reaches its final level of correction and every day is evidence that more accurately and easily to capture and enjoy the sense of sight the world around us and the things that interest us.

It often happens that the “contact lenses syndrome” Made me at times to ask myself certain actions unconsciously: Do I have left the lens on or did they fall? And immediately the immense joy, Lenses if I do not use! I have my perfect vision thanks to the large laser and the great Dr. Antzoulatos!