A writer for MSW shares his experience going through LASIK. Microsoft’s benefits provided incentive for the vision correcting surgery.

By Joshua Isaac
February 18, 2008

“Look at the light, Josh,” the doctor said.

From what I’ve been told, that’s not something one should do in an operating room during a procedure—or is that run to the light?—but despite what I’ve heard, I try anyway to focus on the small orange blinking light. My right eye surgery went fine just minutes earlier, but my left eye refuses to stay in one place. It keeps crawling back from the light and the doctor’s wishes.

“Keep looking at the light.”

Of course I want to shut my eyes, but a small clamp holds the lids open. I peer as best I can into the light. Meanwhile, three technicians shuffle around me in the darkened operating room as the doctor pokes away. After a brief suction noise that goes “swoosh-swoosh,” followed by a slight buzzing, the procedure ends—no more than 20 minutes in all.

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