Life in Progress

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  • From Panic to Clarity: How I Ended Up Getting Femto-LASIK

    I finally did it, after 21 years of constantly replacing glasses, switching between daily and monthly lenses, and living with the frustration of not being able to see while swimming or even showering, I took the step I’ve been dreaming about. For years, my mornings started the same way waking up, blindly tapping around the nightstand or the whole room (because I forgot that I put them randomly somewhere) trying to find my glasses, because their simple frame always disappeared against the background of my blurry world.

    Throughout my bachelor years, my vision kept getting weaker. I would sit in lectures squinting at the board, hoping I could catch what the professor was writing, sometimes giving up and relying on classmates because buying new glasses each year with my high numbers was simply too expensive. I bought customized lenses for winter, for trips, for events and still ended up wearing glasses when deliveries came late or plans changed.

    A month ago, I was cleaning my glasses and one of the lenses just suddenly detached from the frame. It was right before work, and I panicked! What should I do now? I cannot see without them, I cannot work, and even at home everything is blurry. Ordering new glasses would take weeks until they arrived. Luckily, I still had some old contact lenses, which I rarely use now because glasses are healthier and more comfortable for my eyes, but that day, they saved me. After coming back from work, I realized it was actually an easy fix: just a loose screw that weakened the frame and caused the lens to fall out. I fixed it, but that moment was the straw that broke the camel’s back. And that’s when I decided to make an appointment at an eye clinic.

    And now… after all these years, since third grade, I finally did it, I fixed my eyes with Femto Lasik OP.

    I actually had the surgery just two days ago! I’m still recovering, but I already feel like a whole new chapter is starting. I’ll share the full experience, how it went, what it felt like, and everything in between, in my next post

  • Exciting Start

    This is my first time writing a blog or even putting my thoughts into words. I have this need for a while to document my journey, there is nothing special about my life, nothing exciting like inventing new idea, or doing new extraordinary challenge in my life. I am simple woman who lives in a foreign country for couple of years, first came here for bachelor degree, and during the pandemic I wanted to go back to my homeland but the circumstances were difficult, so I ended up just staying here and finding a good job in the company that I was already working as a student. And now in 2025 after a few years of experience I decided to take on a new challenge and study Master while supporting my self as part timer in the same job.

    I am working as a web developer in an international company, my environment is very dynamic and friendly, my boss is super supportive and has my back. And now I decided to get back to school, because why not? Why not adding more challenges, sleepless night, and more stuff to worry about such as assignments, deadlines and exams. So here I am, reaching 30, starting to go to university again for Master degree while keeping my job just as a part timer, because I do need to finance myself somehow.

    Dont get me wrong, I love the degree, and I love to learn and study and that feeling of exam time… it is somehow just put everything into perspective, it helps you to forget literally everything else in life and just focus on that one course where you most probably gonna forget about once you are done with it. Also being part of international program open a new world to get to know so many new people that you would never meet on the usual everyday friend circle. I know now so many people from China, Indonesia, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, kenya, Malaysia, etc. And some become my closest friends.

    However, sometimes i wonder, would I be able to do it? To not fail? And keep going till the end? My first degree was not the best, i started it in the wrong foot, and two hardcore electrical courses almost made me to give up…

    Lets see, I am hopeful! Also i grew and changed so much from my last degree, after all it was almost 4 years ago. I hope I wont repeat my mistake and keep going….I will just start to note down my journey, so I will be able to look back and see how motivated I was and how much I believed in myself that I can do it. So here is my message to the future me, and to anyone who read it and need it, and maybe is in the same situation as I am: new start and new chapter in life might look scary as hell but sometimes it is needed and it takes the chaos of change to find and build that beautiful future which is just waiting for you to grasp it and reach it.