Expectations & Hopes

I'm hoping for 20/20 vision, but I'm expecting at least 20/40 in order to drive legally without glasses.

I'm expecting to be down for the count for the 4 days (until Tuesday) following surgery due to pain, the bandage contacts feeling like sand in my eye, and blurry vision.

I'm hoping to be able to return to work by Wednesday, though I'm open and prepared (goodbye vacation days :-( ) for the possibility of that falling through. Many of the PRK recovery stories indicated that it is usually possible to return within a week, though I expect it'll be a hassle and I'll need huge fonts.

I'm hoping for decent vision reliability by early January (1.5 months from now), though I totally expect it'll be wildly varying from day to day and week to week.

I'm expecting to get a couple minutes of glorious clear vision just after the surgery before the healing process starts. Maybe I should bring something complex to look at...

I'm hoping I don't have "pain worse than childbirth" during the first 4 days, which was described in another PRK recovery blog I read.

I expect it'll take 6 months to confidently label this venture a failure or success.

I hope that if this is a bad failure, I will be able to think of a way to either maintain my current job or find another way to make money.

3-weeks-after update: This post was very pessimistic.
-I'm well past 20/40 already
-I was down for 3 days, but mainly because of doctors orders to rest myself and my eyes. No pain, no sand-in-eye feeling (except for the first couple hours after they took my contact out), much boredom due to lying in bed all day. Listened to lots of podcasts and audiobooks.
-Returned to work on Wednesday as planned. Things were a little fuzzy by the afternoons of my first 2 days, but otherwise fine.
-Vision reliability is excellent at week 3. Morning-to-afternoon degradation is noticeable some days, but far from crippling.
-I did have a few minutes of excellent vision post-surgery, but it stayed excellent (by the standards of my pre-op sans-glasses vision) until 2 days after when visual quality dove for 12 hours or so.
-No pain post-op, as previously mentioned.
-It is still reasonable to wait 6 months to label this a success or failure
-It's looking as of 3 weeks post-op that I won't have to worry about changing vocations due to eye damage.