No More Glasses

After years of being skeptical about the eyes surgery (Lasik), I have decided that its time to give it a go, so just like anything you want to do in Jordan and you have no information about I had to ask friends about it, you know, it’s the word of mouth that really matters the most in almost everything we seek or want to do, so I started asking friends about the BEST doctors and I got a list of 5 doctors then got narrowed down into one doctor (Khaled Sharif), being recommended by almost everyone and also being the first one to do such surgeries in Jordan, within 2 days I called him and made an appointment.

And here I was, right on time for my appointment, at 13:00, but I ended up waiting for 20 minutes, I know that is not a lot for most of you, some people even say that its very hard for doctors to be on time, but hey, its not my fault, they simply told me at 13:00 so Im expecting to see the doctor at 13:00 or 13:10 max.

I went to the reception and gave them a decent lecture about being punctual saying that you told me to be here at 13:00 and at exactly 13:00 I was here, then why on earth should I wait for 20-30 minutes, they couldn’t say anything but your turn will come soon, so I realized that I need to see the manager, and so I did, after that, I was treated like a king :), I didn’t want that, all I wanted is to have the doctor seeing my eyes on time as they informed me, or the least they could do is to apologize to me before I talk about to anybody. Anyways to cut the story short, I saw the doctor and made an appointment for the surgery.

The same thing happened on the day of the surgery, I came on time and they were late, again its not my fault and I can never tolerate such an act, some people would say “come on Bashar just let it go, Jordan is all about that” I’m sorry but if your letting it go and your fine about it then it is your issue, and the reason I’m doing that is that we will never change if we kept on accepting things as they are :), don’t you think so? So while I was headed to the reception they simply knew that I’m gonna make a big fuzz about it probably they were thinking the bastard is coming so beware and before I speak one of them said “Mr Bashar, Could you go to the next floor!!”, I have to say they she perfectly read my mind and made the right choice for me.

The surgery took 6 minutes, was not easy to take but I needed to do it, simply because I didn’t like to put glasses anymore, for 2 simple reasons:
1- I feel that there is something sticking into my nose and I’m not comfortable about it anymore.
2- I kinda lose my confidence whenever I wear the glasses, a bit shocking for some people but its true for me, I simply feel that I’m a different person whenever I wear them.

After the surgery, the one thing I could ever do is to listen to the radio, which was something I never did before apart from listening to music, and hell it was, so boring, zero added knowledge, nothing really exciting to listen to :), so I called some of my peeps, It was just a good chance to revive things with people I haven’t talked to in months.

Now I’m at the recovery stage, I can’t see really well especially seeing TV or reading things on the computer, the only thing I enjoy doing is writing a post, simply because I write fast and I don’t have to look at the screen.