Tim Bainey Jr.

Tim Bainey Jr. - Professional Racecar Driver (LASIK)

As a professional race car driver, vision is of the utmost importance. Not only is being able to see clearly and in-focus important, but peripheral vision, field of depth, and dependability ranks pretty high.

I wore contacts (corrective lenses) in the past, but problems like dry eyes, temporary blurred vision in an eye (when you blink), and things like that were a constant problem. And when you add to it the 100+ degree temperatures that we experience inside these cars for 2-3 hours straight, airflow through the car, sweat (perspiration) getting into my eyes, and plain eye fatigue got to be tiresome. That’s when I turned to the Laurel Eye Clinic.

The first thing that impressed me was the great staff, from the moment I walked in they were friendly, helpful, and went out of their way to make sure that I was 100% comfortable and under-standing of the Lasik Surgery Procedure.

The process was easy. After a successful 30 minute appointment to see if I was a good candidate for the surgery, I was setup with another consultation as part of the pre-surgery procedure. The day of my surgery I was in and out in about an hour, the surgery itself took about 40 seconds – the rest of the time was in prep and about 20 minutes in the recovery area.

The healing process was amazing, I actually drove back for my post-surgery checkup the next day! But I was careful and fol-lowed their orders, wearing the sunglasses they provided me with for the next few days, I had to put drops in each eye about 5 times a day for the first week. After that we changed to wet-ting drops that were used over the next 2 months , just as a pre-caution to keep my eyes from drying out.

Now – I’m out on the track every weekend, my vision better than I can ever remember (I wore contacts or corrective lenses since I was in 4th grade). No contacts, no glasses, no blurred vi-sion, eye drops, tired eyes, red eyes, or any of those other has-sles than anyone who has ever needed corrective lenses or contacts can relate too.

It really is one of the best things I’ve ever done and I would highly recommend it to anyone – believe me – I haven’t missed my contacts or glasses at all!