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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (6578)2/14/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar  Read Replies (2) of 20981
 
My wife (severely myopic like myself) had the lasic operation in December. Thats where the doc slices a flap in the cornea, flips it back, and zaps the undermeat with a laser. Takes about 2 minutes per eye. The cornea then self-adheres back in place.

I got to watch a TV screen thru the operating room window while it was happening. Quite cool to witness. No pain before or after, just some passing scratchiness in the first couple of hours. She's thrilled with the vision now. One eye was "tuned" for distance and the other adjusted slightly for reading. She has both, and she's knocking on the door to AARP age. Thinking about doing it myself, just afraid of losing the built-in reading capability. By the way, the stock symbol for the laser is VISX and they are based here in Santa Clara.
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