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Non-Tech : Dorsey Wright & Associates. Point and Figure -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rich1 who wrote (3859)	12/30/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9427

Does not sound like you should waste time with it. My vision was 10/400; been wearing glasses for 40 years. It's great not needing them any longer. Took months before I stopped waking up, looking for my glasses to wear. I would advise you to go to a doctor you implicitly trust; it's a tad disconcerting going blind for a few moments. I've dissuaded quite a few by going into detail about the procedure. I guess I learned as much as I could (for a layman) over the past year because of my experience. It's a fascinating procedure; Untold millions of Russians are blind so I can have vision. That's quite a thought. In my case, I had PRK on the right eye and Lasik on the left. The right eye degraded somewhat and I probably should have what is called an enhancement. But the difference is night and day; I could complain about my right eye but going from 10/400 to 20/50 in that eye is nothing to sneeze at. And, the left eye is perhaps 20/24. The reason I went for it was the need for bifocals. That's what made my decision for me. In retrospect, $3900 will be re-couped by not buying new glasses ever again. Damn things were 3 to 5 hundred dollars each plus I would have a spare set. Every year! So at this rate I'll be even in a few years. Oh, you are 20/30 with glasses? I thought that was without glasses. Hmm; Lasik may not help you with reading. It is designed to give you either distance or close-up. Of course, you can have one eye done for distance and the other done for reading; that's called Mono-Vision. I knew guys who contracted mono in high school, I would not enjoy that. The advantage though with having Lasik for distance is this; you can pick up a dozen sets of glasses from CVS for 5 or 10 bucks apiece and put a pair everywhere you might have an occasion to read. Anyway, it was a round-about way of answering your question but yes.....I'm happy with it, regardless of the need for an enhancement.