Lasik, a type of laser eye surgery, can improve such common vision problems such as near-sightedness and far-sighteness. Lasik means you can finally discard those inconvenient corrective lenses - and the procedure costs less than you may think.

It's been seven years since I had Lasik surgery and I'm very happy with the results, but it wasn't the cake walk I expected- More on that later.

I'd been wearing really thick, coke-bottle glasses since my early teens and progressed to contact lenses only to suffer from allergies related to the cleaning solutions. So I spent a few years considering Lasik and, unfortunately, allowed many people to talk me out of it.