Thought of writing this for sharing. Its been exactly 48 hours since my reflex smile was done.

Where: kpj center for sight
Who: Dr Helen
How much: 9k for both eyes excluding assessment cost of 200. Promotion price.

How it was done:
Final thorough check on cornea thickness, power etc.
Assistant will explain the after procedure care for 3red time.
Doc explain the procedure..then here it goes.

Change into operation robe, mask still on.
Few drops of anesthesia,
Nurse use some white soap kind of bubble to wash my upper face.
Second wash of eye lashes using diff kind of liquid.
Thirdly use yellow medicine to sanitize entire eye brow to eye lashes.
Doctor check on my eye again with a scope..now it is time to get into OT.

Inside OT, doctor will test my eye if it is numb enough. Then add in few more drops until im comfortable.
Once my eye lids r numb, doctor put a clamp to keep me from blinking.
Rinse my eye ball next, then doc uses a tiny gauze swab to clean my eyeball and surrounding. During the swab doctor will test if my eyeball is numb. Once ready doctor did a final marking on eyeball to ensure it is 100% accurate.
Drop another drop to clean my eyeball final time..
Throughout the prep work i had to adjust my head to the right position to hold still..a bit nervous but okay.
Now herecomes the laser..basically the laser machine came to my eye, imagine sucking a ping pong using your vacuum. Yeah..

The process is pretty much chasing a green dot. Can c it moved in circular motion for 15 seconds, and my vision turns towards white blur through the 15 sec. Just like in the movies, as u step into the white tunnel kind of feel.

Yeah i got nervous,thought i went blind. Doctor explained its just bubbles in cornea..

Moving and at from machine, doctor made a small incision and insert a small needle (looks like it) to separate the bubbly piece from my eye. The scrape was a little uncomfortable, a little pain (very tiny) on left eye, then when doctor pull it out it feels like korek hiding like when your nose shit is tightly attached to nose hair n u still pull it anyway.

Then it is final wash and im done. Was a little blur cz i was dead nervous throughout.. But i can walk fine.

Nx post will share about my recovery in first 24 hours.

First 4 hours post procedure:
Dead tired. Literally more tiring than having sex multiple times or not sleeping for 2 nights.
Dry eyes, tingling feeling in the eyelids like there's sand in it.
Slept for 6 hours after lunch, this is about 7 hours after procedure done. Woke up feeling much better, still hazy and blurry but i feel 70% recovered in vision.

Stayed away from wind and screen and sunlight.

Slept through the night, woke up to much much better vision..very little mist/blur, no more dry eye or any uncomfortable feeling at all. By noon i can watch tv, play GTA.. Basically back to normal except exercise and heavy lifting.

48 hours post procedure:
Significantly better vision.. Astigmatism is close to none except when eyes r teary or dry.
That feeling of liberty is just..beyond words can describe. No problem to walk under bright sunlight at noon, no dry eyes, no tiredness.

Dr Helen did a great job.. My wife is going for her turn soon !

Can check out my post.. Im still recovering, 2 months and 10 days since surgery

i can see absolutely clearly within first 48 hours actually, on my left eye.

after a month my left eye can read 7th line in the Snellen chart (eye test chart), now 2 months+ my left eye can ready until 8th line which is the smallest font in Snellen chart. Very happy with it.. for sure.

Right eye on the other hand is tricky story.

3 weeks after op - still blurry. can't see more than an arm's length away. short sightedness at +1.00. Very dry eye..
9 weeks after op - slight improvement. can see further, quite good improvement on astig. Short sightedness at +0.75, less dry.
11 weeks after op (today) - slight improvement. Can see quite clear in the morning. After long day of screen time vision gets very bad at late night.

Doc ask to give at least 6 months of recovery after op before we discuss about any other option. There are only 3 outcomes to this:

1) fully recovered vision, happy ending
2) live with what I have
3) go for ASA.. this is the last option.

Everyone recovers at different speed, hope my sharing keeps your faith up!

Kpj in pj, ss23