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To: Apollo who wrote (5426)	8/25/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 54805

Stan, "we" is the royal we. It was meant to include you, of course!!!

To: Apollo who wrote (5426)	8/25/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: Percival 917	Respond to of 54805

To Apollo and Thread, My apologies Apollo, I thought I posted this correctly this AM, but apparently I forgot to hit the publish message button after the submit button. Apollo had asked me to publish this on the Lasik procedure. Stan, As far as I am aware, I don't know of any absolute blindness caused by the laser procedures unless it might have been in the very earliest trials but nothing I have seen published indicates even this. I think it is a very safe treatment, especially the LASIK procedure. When you cut the microns thick flap and laser the stroma (the middle layer of the cornea) and then you seal the flap correctly there is little to go wrong. The incidence of striae and epithelial growth under the flap is very small, but still enough of a concern that if you have a small refractive error why take any chance. The earlier procedure RK was done with radial incisions made into the cornea. To achieve the flattening that you needed to reduce the myopia the incisions had to be 90% thru the cornea. This procedure had many problems which is why it is not used as much anymore. It's basically the dinosaur.

To: Apollo who wrote (5426)	8/25/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: chaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

My decision RE: RMBS addition is based on two things: 1) RMBS seems to be going through the standards adoption process, and it looks very much like it's going to"take" 2) The product is being designed into many kinds of consumer products beyond just PC's Those two, I have a hunch, will not completely eliminate the feast/famine boom/bust cycles we've all seen in the memory chip companies, but for RMBS at least, it may smooth them out. Extreme volatility is not behind us. Keep your dramimine (sp?) at the ready.