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To: Janice Shell who wrote (6578)	2/13/1998 10:10:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Janice, One contact lens for distance and the other for reading? I couldn't deal with that either. But it perhaps does explain why some people drive vehicles the way that they do. I don't know of anyone who has used bifocal contact lenses, and I never looked into them for myself. Just the idea of them seems a little Rube Goldbergish. Maybe I'll look into the throwaways. Re being mistaken for famous people: I guess it would be weird to be mistaken for someone famous that you had never heard of. I've heard famous people often are mistakenly identified as other famous people. That must hurt. Holly

To: Janice Shell who wrote (6578)	2/14/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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.