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20/20 in the left eye, 20/40 in the right. (20/40 in both eyes is the limit for driving without lenses in Texas.)
There's always the chance I could regress later on, of course. Eyes are stretchy things. But I started out so bad, I don't care... I was legally blind before (my prescription was around -9.5, I don't even know what kind of 20/X number that translates into) so wearing some thin, lightweight little -1 or -2 prescription glasses wouldn't bother me a bit. And of course there are always contacts, although the doctor mentioned that my eyes might be more easily irritated by them now.
Technically, if my vision did start to go bad again, the "warranty" on my eyes covers any additional surgeries to re-zap them, but because I started off at such an extreme, it meant they had to take off a lot of cornea to fix it. I'm now at damn near the minimum thickness of cornea one is allowed to safely have.
I do get the "starbursts" around lights at night that some LASIK patients complain about, but usually only when my eyes are tired, and even then if I concentrate for a second I can make them go away. I don't even know what I'm actually doing to get rid of them, maybe willfully closing my pupil a bit or something. Either way, they don't bother me too much.
My mom and stepdad both had PRK, and it looked a lot worse than what I went through.
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