Prior to March 7, 2001 my vision was very nearsighted with a -9.25 diopters in one eye and a –8.25 diopters in the other eye with a visual acuity of 20/400. I had heard over the past few years that I would be a good candidate for Lasik eye surgery to correct my vision using a laser. It was not a guarantee of perfect vision. I was told that due to my high prescription and my age that I should expect results of 20/40 or 20/30 and that I would need reading glasses.

On the morning of March 7, 2001 I had the surgery done in Portland, ME. Everything appeared to go well and the next morning I could see 20/30 with no problems. This was to be the last time I would see that well for the next 16 weeks!

Soon afterwards my vision started to disintegrate. After 11 days I was seeing double vision in my right eye and then in 22 days I was seeing double vision in my left eye. Night driving started to become very difficult because of extreme glare, halos, and double vision. My visual acuity started to slip from 20/30 to eventually 20/200. I became farsighted with about a +3.0 diopters. The doctor kept on telling me it was edema in the beginning and it would clear up, but I finally demanded to see a specialist in Boston, which I saw about 8 weeks from the surgery.

The specialist said that it was not edema, which is a temporary condition and that it does not cause the problems that I was experiencing. Instead, it was a very dangerous condition called DLK, which leads to permanent eye damage. I was told that the only way to restore my vision at this point was to wear hard contact lenses since glasses could not eliminate all the damage done by Lasik eye surgery.

I called other doctors to get help and I got back on the Internet to find some solution. All the answers came back the same – “The technology does not exist to correct the damage”. My old doctor in Tennessee said that the only way that much damage could be corrected was “if God were to smile on you”. As you could image I was not in a good frame of mind and my future was very uncertain. I would be left a Lasik causality with only the use of hard contact lenses to correct my vision and no idea what the long-term effects were to be.

For five weeks I struggled to wear the hard contacts which are uncomfortable to wear. A lot of my friends and family members supported me with their prayers. I refused to believe that I would be left with my sight the way it was; that is not to say I didn’t get depressed and angry.

On June 20 I had an eye check-up which showed that I was still 20/200, double vision in each eye, glare, halos, irregular astigmatism, and the rest of the defects.

BUT on Sunday, June 24 I walked into the church that my wife and I attend and everything changed!

I got up that morning of June 24 with the same poor vision and I put my contacts in and drove my wife to church. I had the contacts in for about one hour when all of a sudden both of my eyes got extremely irritated while sitting in the church. So I decided to take them out and put them back in at the end of the church service. After I took them out I gentle rubbed my eyes and then sat back.

When I first looked around the church I didn’t expect to see much and it took a few seconds before I noticed I could see! My vision was great, clear, no double vision, glare, or anything in either eye. I thought maybe it was a temporary condition caused by the contacts. I left church without telling my wife anything and I drove home without wear the contacts.

By Wednesday, June 27 I couldn’t stand it any longer and I called my Optometrist to get an eye exam arranged for Friday, June 29. I was just hoping to see 20/30 or 20/40 so I would not have to wear the contacts in order to drive. At the eye exam they determined that I could see 20/20 both up close and far away. I still was not experiencing the double vision, glare, or other defects that I had before June 24. The doctor was blown away by the instant change in vision.

On July 17 my eye surgeon looked at my eyes and they had reviewed the record of my exam on June 29. They also determined that I could see 20/20 in both eyes and still no defects such as the double vision and glare. Both my distance vision and near vision were 20/20. One doctor wrote on my file that “it can’t get any better than this”. Another written note in my file says “miraculous change of vision in church on Sunday”. Even this doctor said, “If you had not said it happened in church, I would not have believed it was a miracle”.

Now let me ask you this. How can BOTH eyes be healed instantly? I went from 20/200 to 20/20, from being farsighted to neutral, the double vision in both eyes disappeared, the glare and halos are gone, all that stuff disappeared suddenly.