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Biotech / Medical : SNRS- Sunrise Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marvin Frank who wrote (628)	4/6/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: Mack Earnhardt	Respond to of 4140

I've been away or I would have jumped in sooner. Here is a link to the "Sand" patent: patents.ibm.com I can also give a first-hand description of the "contact" part of PRK. Imagine you're leaned back in something resembling a dentist chair, while you're friendly eye doctor scrubs off the outer layer of your eyeball with something sort of like a sandpaper Q-tip. It actually doesn't hurt because he give you numbing drops first. The painful part starts a couple of hours later when it seems like the doc left some of that sand behind. The front of your eyeball is literally an open sore. Enough of the drama. I had PRK in both eyes and the pain isn't too bad if you remember to take the pain medication the doctor prescribes. (If you dislike taking pills like I do and try to do without, I guarantee you'll take the @$%^#$ pill eventually, anyway.) Some vision improvement is evident immediately, but takes 3-6 weeks to stabilize because the outer layer of tissue has to grow back from the edges in. The point regarding SRNS is that if thousands of nearsighted people such as me were willing to go through PRK to get rid of the glasses we've worn for many years. The number of farsighted people willing to try a painless treatment to get rid of glasses only recently acquired must be enormous. -Mack