> That said, I've been wearing glasses since I was 9. By now they're a part of my face and I literally look weird without them. I know the feeling. I got my fi

> That said, I've been wearing glasses since I was 9. By now they're a part of my face and I literally look weird without them. I know the feeling. I got my first glasses with 5, then had a pause between 6 and 8 and have worn them since then all the time. If my eyesight would have been in your range ("can exist without glasses") I'm not sure if I would have done the surgery, but being blind without glasses convinced me that looking weird is a far lesser evil. > What was the surgery like? The idea of something going in my eyes always terrified me. I had the same thoughts, but the surgery was completely harmless. The "real" surgery took something like 20 seconds. The doctor said "now we insert the lens", then it got a bit bright, then dark and then he said "finished" and did the same thing with the other eye. The preparations were far longer. I had to take eye drops for a few days, then on the day of the surgery they have to lay an IV (for safety purposes - the surgery was done in local anesthesia, but there was the option of falling back to general anesthesia if they had to), then they have to attach all the monitoring equipment and so on .. so, the whole surgery was maybe an hour, but the part you would call surgery was very short. Probably interesting: I didn't do LASIK, but this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implantable_collamer_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implantable_collamer_lens - you cannot get LASIK if you are above -8 diopter on one eye (or at least my doctors said they wouldn't do it, too risky)