10 Reasons NOT to Get Corrective Strabismus Surgery

Ok, I confess. I've dropped the ball again. I don't know how people go through these insurance and phone tag battles and still work, raise children, clean the house, or sleep! Still, part of my less than aggressive approach can be attributed to fears and demons.

Here are 10 of them:

1. The surgeon will tell me I'm not a candidate for the surgery and then all these years of working myself up to it will have been for NOTHING.
   
2. I will lose part of my identity. After all, I've looked this way my whole life!
3. I will be one of those unlucky patients that falls into the wee percentage of freak accidents and will be far worse off than I am now.
   
4. My surgeon will be distracted by a spat with their spouse the night before, operate on the wrong eye, and ruin me.
5. Insurance won't pay and I won't be able to justify the expense of a cosmetic fix.
6. I'll look "vanilla" when right now I'm a flavor twist!
7. I'll be blinded.
8. The surgeon will grossly over-correct.
9. The surgeon will grossly under-correct (not nearly as bad as #8...*shudders*).
10. Oh, I dunno. Because I'm SCARED!

The good news is that this list is not nearly as long as my 26 Reasons to Get Corrective Eye Surgery. That's something.