Spock Misses The Point

Sometimes a big decision has been considered for so long that when it comes time to make it, it’s almost like common sense.  The answer just feels like a fact.  Like, “Sure.  It’s obvious.  Of course.”  Well that happened to me recently.  I’ve considered laser surgery for my eyes ever since I first heard about it many years ago.  However, the technology back then couldn’t help people with severe myopia like myself.  Everytime I visited my optometrist for a check up I’d ask like a kid in the back seat, “Is it ready yet?  Is it ready yet?” She would say, “No, but it’s getting better.  Wait another year and see.”, until a couple of weeks ago.  There was a split second when I was presented with the option of going for a consultation with a specialist that felt like I couldn’t hear anything, there was vision but I wasn’t processing it, there wasn’t any smell or any senses.  I felt like I was floating in space, humming, for that split second.  Like my head just took that time to do a reality check.  Was that real?  Was I just presented with a new road to turn into?  I guess it had to check that, as it’d been thinking about hypothetical scenarios so many times.  It was like my head slapping itself on the face, pinching itself in the stomach, to see if it was a dream or another one of its own fire drill.  It wasn’t.  When I returned from that split second, the answer was swift.  “Sure.  Let’s do this.  I’ve been waiting long enough.”

I’ve been given the nod by the specialist.  The surgery will be on the 17th of Novemeber.

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