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I'm so glad I have great vision.
No lasers for me!

An English gent that I used to work with told me that his wife had just had an experimental procedure for her vision.
Instead of torching your eyeball, they insert a lens under the "skin" of your eyeball. I guess if there are problems later, you can have it removed.

Tophatter, I would never want to be a test animal thats just really scary. Sniperdude, how many carrots do you eat per day? 30 or more will make your skin change color I think

I eat an average of about 8 or 9 per day, but sometimes I don't eat any but sometimes I eat a whole bag

8 or 9 per day is not enough to get the change your skin color

A harmless condition called carotenemia that causes yellowish discoloration of skin can develop from over-consumption of foods such as carrots and winter squash, which increase levels of a type of pigment (carotene) in the blood.

Originally Posted by illusha

Tophatter, I would never want to be a test animal thats just really scary.

Truth! IIRC, she got it done wicked cheap due to the experimental nature of it.

Originally Posted by TopHatter

An English gent that I used to work with told me that his wife had just had an experimental procedure for her vision.
Instead of torching your eyeball, they insert a lens under the "skin" of your eyeball. I guess if there are problems later, you can have it removed.

I looked at that option as well. I felt that it would take a couple of tries to get the correct lense. This hapened often when getting a new prescription for glasses. Lasik gave me better odds the first time around. Nor did I like the idea of something breaking in my eye.

Lasers do not torch the eye! They vaporize it. (less than a micron at a time)

Originally Posted by bonehead

Lasers do not torch the eye! They vaporize it. (less than a micron at a time)

You're right



I should have said "scorch"

Lasers do not torch the eye! They vaporize it. (less than a micron at a time)

I don't know what sounds worse, burning an eye or vaporizing it slowly That is what torture must be.

Personally, I don't care how cheap it is, I would not do an experimental surgery. When you have the word experimental before surgery, you should know that you are a lab rat (or hamster). I wouldn't mind paying the extra money to get the best kind of surgeon/surgery, this is your vision we are talking about and you don't want to mess with that.

It took a long time for me to go ahead with the surgery as the thought of ANY eye surgery scared the cr@p out of me. In the end I simply hated to wear glasses and could not do so for the rest of my life if there was an alternative. Contacts are ok, better than glasses yet had problems of their own. Did I say "hate"? That is not nearly a strong enough word. I also waited because my eyes are too important to be sombody elses experiment or learning experience. I waited untill the doctor built up a great track record. I am still in the recovery phase, but I have no regrets at all. I can now do my daily and nightly activities without glasses and I am loving it! My old glasses have gone the way of "a thousand hammer smashes" I can't tell you how satisfying that was. That ten minute operation changed my life.

For those of you who are still squeemish, there was some short term discomfort when they made the flap, but never any pain. Infact, you scarcely knew you were being zapped. They even made a dvd so I can watch my operation again and again.

Can you post the video here? In the form of a zip file

Originally Posted by illusha

Can you post the video here? In the form of a zip file

I'll see what I can do. You will have to wait a bit as I am off to Vegas for a few days. In the mean time, I could use some assistance on how to post videos. My computer is a mac so I will see what I can do about reformatting quicktime movies to a pc format if needed. Any help would be appreciated.

What mac do you have?
I've got a mac too (which is by far the best computer you can have); You can keep it as Quicktime (.mov, .avi, etc.), since 100% of pcs have quicktime on them. Zipping the file compresses it (mac equivelant would be .gz, .sit, .hqx, etc.). If you don't know how to zip the file, you can google some drag and drop programs for zipping files. Now if the movie is high quality, and you have Quictime pro, you can save it as H.264, which is the new HD, low bandwidth mpeg-4 format. But you need Quicktime pro and Tiger, and it plays REALLY slowly on older computers.
Just post it like a file - below the text area, there's an attachment manager. You should be able to handle it from there.

I've got a mac too (which is by far the best computer you can have);

WAHHH? Mac is a horrible computer, almost everyone I know saids that and not a lot of people want to use it. I am not sure how to zip a file in a mac but I do know how to do it on a PC