Going In For Lasik

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By Nads | Friday, June 10, 2011 | 8:48 am | 29 Comments
Posted in: Watercooler

Gasmii!!! I’m going in for Lasik eye surgery as we speak. Which means I will hopefully come out of this thing with working eyes!! So, with that said…I’m signing off for the day, or at least most of it. I’ll try to check in depending on how everything goes!!

Wish me luck!! I’m super excited!

Here is my final picture with glasses on:

Photo on 2011-06-10 at 08.11 #4

About

Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

29 Comments

  1. 1
    kczar
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 8:49 am

    Good luck, Nads! Enjoy the Valium (I think they still give patients that.)

  2. 2
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 8:58 am

    Good luck!

  3. 3
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 9:11 am

    Good luck!

  4. 4
    Nads
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 9:22 am

    Thanks guys! I’m in the waiting room now, they’re playing “Father of the Bride.”

    I used to love this movie and Mrs. Doubtfire…ah, the simple days.

  5. 5
    Moli Moli
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 10:17 am

    Got it done 5 years ago I was legally blind. The day after surgery(if you even call it that) I had 20/30 vision:). I am a big baby and didn’t need any pain killers until after the surgery and it was over the counter Motrin. Can’t wait to here how your first day with clear vision will feel like.

  6. 6
    bluzgirl
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 10:51 am

    I had it done 9 years ago and like Moli was legally blind (The new Broadway Musical!)…It was a miracle…Good luck–you’ll love it!

  7. 7
    Nads
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 11:09 am

    Omg. Best musical name ever! Almost there! It’s almost my turn!

  8. 8
    Moli Moli
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 11:13 am

    Hear*

  9. 9
    Moli Moli
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Oh Nads BTW, it takes longer to prepare your eyes than the actual surgery! about a total of 10-15 mins

  10. 10
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    I wore glasses (with a really strong prescription) from the time I was three until I was thirty-four. Without my glasses everything was just blobs of blurry colors. Lasik was the best thing I’ve ever had done. But it took me a while to stop looking for my glasses when I would first wake up….

    I hope your surgery is as successful and satisfactory as mine was :)

  11. 11
    Moli Moli
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    catty, it took a while to stop poking myself in the forehead……trying to push my ‘invisible’ glasses up. Best and biggest shock for me……rolling over a glancing at the clock and not having to pick it up to see teh time in the middle of the night.

  12. 12
    Rebecca
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    OMG how exciting! Good Luck! I so want to get the surgery done too but am too much of a scaredy cat that something will go wrong – keep us posted! I so hope everything goes OK! :)

  13. 13
    JasonR
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    Good luck Nads! My wife did it last summer. She had one unpleasant afternoon post-surgery (but she has no pain threshold at all) and was ok by the next day, and now she has 20/20 or better vision. Hope all goes well

  14. 14
    ohhhyeah
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 2:21 pm

    Best money I every spent. It makes lying on the couch watching television a much better experience.

  15. 15
    ohhhyeah
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    I meant ‘ever’ but I have a talking monkey (my niece) distracting me while I’m trying to type.

  16. 16
    NatPatBen
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    Hope it went well!
    I had LASIK about 5 or 6 years ago and it was the best money I ever spent!

  17. 17
    ohralphie
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    I went from not being able to see the big E on the eye chart to now being 20/15. It was the best money I’ve ever spent and I’ve not regretted a single day of it.
    Good luck – remember, sleep is your friend for the first day.

  18. 18
    Fan-Ann
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    Hope you are doing well Nads. Let us know!

  19. 19
    June Summer
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 12:14 am

    Just don’t do what I did. The nurse told me to come home, drink a little wine, and sleep for a few hours after surgery. Well, hubby
    was dealing with the kids so I decided to pour the wine by myself.
    The bottle was slippery and I dropped it on my foot. I wore a cast
    and used crutches for six weeks.

  20. 20
    itchy
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 12:57 am

    I’m extremely near-sighted. But I’d really miss being able to take off my specs and seeing the world as a blur. Seriously.

    I can understand the appeal of seeing clearly. I remember my first pair of contact lenses — glass lenses! They reshaped my (real) lenses from wearing them so much and one day I woke up and went to school and only realized toward the end of the day (when my eyes resumed their normal shape) that I’d forgotten my glasses. It was magical. Still, I was never tempted by Lasik, partly because it was still pretty experimental back when I would have considered it.

    I’m curious, though. Don’t you end up needing to wear (reading) glasses again anyway, once you hit your forties? With the prices of progressive lenses these day, it might be cheaper to have lasik…

  21. 22
    NatPatBen
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 5:57 am

    @itchy, my mother had LASIK around age 40 (about 13-14 years ago) and did end up needing reading glasses later. She still doesn’t regret the LASIK though.

    I had mine around age 23-24, so a few thousand is DEFINITELY worth 20+ years of no glasses/contacts.

  22. 23
    ohralphie
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 6:57 am

    @itchy — yes, reading glasses come to us all at some point or another. But I’d rather slip on reading glasses (haven’t had to at this point) then deal with my extreme nearsightedness again.
    Also I still have the experience of seeing the world as a blurry place in my dreams! It is the oddest thing, but in my dreams I still wear glasses/contacts and still have the blurriness I used to have. It just makes me all the more happy to wake up and realize that was all a dream.

  23. 24
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 7:02 am

    You’re just like Miranda in Sex and the City! Good luck.

  24. 25
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 8:10 am

    I’m 44 and my husband is 46…so far no reading glasses necessary. We both just had our eyes checked. (He had his lasik a year after I did.) His are both 20/20, and mine are 20/20 and 20/30 (which was all the better it was after the surgery…it was pretty bad before surgery.) The only change is I had had an extreme astigmatism, and that has returned in the last two years. It affects my vision for long distance. They’d warned me before surgery this might happen because of the major amount of “rippling” my cornea had before the surgery, so it isn’t a surprise. And I still don’t regret having lasik.

    I had been following the progress of eye surgery since the late 70s when surgeons in Russia were using diamond tipped scalpels to try to repair the eyes. The surgeon who finally did my lasik is an American who has trained eye surgeons in 36 countries. I’m very happy I trusted him.

    So…Nads, how did it go?

  25. 26
    Nads
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    Thank you guys sooo much for your wishes and your stories. It was NOTHING like I expected. I didn’t realize the laser part literally took 15 mintues for both parts. It didn’t hurt, it was just unnatural b/c they’re touching your eye. I didn’t like the suction part of it, it was a little awkward…but now all that’s said and done, I’m SOOO happy I did it. It was pretty easy, and I have 20/15 vision now!!! Insane, right???? BEST MONEY SPENT! I can’t believe I didn’t do this 10 years ago.

    You guys are seriously the best!!!!!!

    BIGGEST XOXXOXOXOOX. Nads

  26. 27
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    Congratulations on the test pilot vision! (My optometrist told me, back when I was in school, that my 20/15 was long-haul trucker vision, but I like my version better.)

  27. 28
    June Summer
    Posted June 11, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    @Jamie
    Yours sounds pretty bad to me.
    People at the doctor’s office were asking about my foot at the follow-up appointment and I told them it was their fault for telling me to drink wine. lol

  28. 29
    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted June 12, 2011 at 1:56 am

    Can you get Lasik in one eye? I think I have 20/15 (or 20/10) vision..well, I am supposed to wear reading glasses but i see fine without them. Only, I do most of my ‘looking’ from my dominant (left) eye. The same eye I use for photography which I use to think was because I was more skilled at ‘winking’ with my right eye in order to peer through the viewfinder with my other one. But while reading, if I place my hand over my right eye, everything becomes blurry. Surely, my right eye is the only problem but it is possible to correct just one? I think my glasses’ prescription does this, but like Nads, I don’t wanna wear glasses! I want TWO strong eyes!

    Nads, glad to hear it all worked out! Funny, I saw it done on the kardashians (Kim) and while it looked weird to see a layer of eyeball peeled back like a grape, Kim didn’t seem to be in any discomfort at all. It looked quick and painless. Anyway, I’m happy for you. Now you can see the world more clearly, but hopefully, pockmarked reality whores don’t scare you. :)

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