I believe this was my last run with my glasses - the picture’s date was March 27, 2024.

It was just about a year ago that I got lasik surgery. (LASIK? Maybe it’s supposed to be written like that.)

I got it at a weird age because there’s really no guarantee that my eyes will be great for the rest of my life.

But I guess I knew that going in.

One of the biggest reasons I underwent the procedure was because I don’t like running in my glasses, and I didn’t want to have laziness about my contacts be a reason I postponed going for a run.

In that sense, it’s been great. It’s been a good year of just running when I feel like it, and not having to spend that extra time getting materials like contact lenses ready.

Also falling asleep mid-afternoon (though this is much rarer than it used to be years ago) is no longer a worry that I’ll wake up with dried-out contact lenses.

I still have very good eyesight thanks to the surgery - I often have to remind myself that I’m seeing well without glasses in a way I never used to be able to do…or at least since before I was 10 years old.

But there are times I can tell it’s not as sharp as it used to be.

It’s not dangerously less sharp - it’s just the details. I can read signs OK, but there are other things that are harder to see, like faces at a distance.

Reading is a whole other story - I know reading glasses are in my near future.

I scheduled the LASIK last year for the Mets’ day off after Opening Day. They have that day off in case Opening Day gets rained out - it’s always a frustrating day off after the excitement of Opening Day and then you have to wait for game two of the season.

I figured, well, if there’s ever a day I need to rest my eyes and not watch anything, that’s the day to do it.

Turns out, it rained last year and the Mets played that second day instead of the first. So it’s the first Opening Day I couldn’t really watch. I took a couple of naps during the game, but I had it on my phone and mostly listened to it, while one of my daughters watched it downstairs and kept score and updated me on what was happening.

Then the rest of that exciting season I was able to watch pretty crystal clear, and on the days I drove down to New York for games I didn’t have to worry about packing the extra things like saline solution and contact lens cases.

It’s a small thing, but it’s made a big difference for me.

Now this year - and this week - I get to watch Opening Day and I don’t need my glasses to do it. We’ll see how many more years I’ll get like that. I’m not confident I won’t need to go back to some kind of prescription, even if it’s a minor one.

And for now, I’m not going to take what I have for granted.