I'm starting to think the problem is more my monitor, a 12" PB is wonderfuly portable and virtually indestructable but after 4 hours straight in illustrator I'm going crosseyed. Got my eye on one of those lovely 17" Samsung 1280x1024 17" LCDs. Or maybe wait and see what goodies apple brings out this week and splash some red on my next statement with 30" LCD.


LJ - You know how threadjacking works ;)

LJ--Sorry to bust (pardon the pun) your bubble.... I'm sure if anybody has had "work" done they'll come forward. (Besides, I gave everybody a chance to post boobage--albeit not necessarily their own :) -- and most didn't bite.)

wolf, my corrected vision is 20/40 on my right eye and 20/20 in the left. Needless to say my driver's license has a "corrective lenses" restriction. I wasn't exaggerating when I said in the "were we better off in the 1950s" thread that my vision could not have been corrected nearly as well using techniques available then.

jaguar, my right lens is about 8mm at the thickest (that's an estimate, I can never find a ruler when I need one). But the curvature is extreme; the center is significantly thinner. The left is 5 or 6mm at the thickest, but is not as curved. I'll post pics if I can get any that do justice to them!

Bruce, it was Philadelphia Eyeglass Labs in Haverford.

Steve, for what it's worth, I had LASIK done, -9.5 and severe astigmatism in both eyes, and they told me from the beginning I was an "ideal candidate." Seems that the tendency to regress after the surgery is actually greater in people with less strong prescriptions.

With the retina problems you mentioned, I don't know, but it's such an amazingly life-changing procedure, you should at least talk to a LASIK surgeon about it. If nothing else, they could maybe get you down to a more livable prescription.

I don't know. I may revisit the subject sometime. But I did talk to my ophthalmologist about it a while back & he wasn't enthusiastic. And I trust him a lot because of the whole history he's had helping me deal with the retinal hemorrhages. (His take was basically, he doesn't object to lasik in general--although he does feel a lot of people don't educate themselves properly on the potential risks--but for people with really extreme needs, the amount of corneal alteration that needs to take place is high enough that it becomes problematic.)

As for a "livable" prescription---ehhh. I'm living with what I have now. The only real limitation is that it can be awkward to read street signs at night in an unfamiliar place, so I have to choose those expeditions carefully (see birthday, Undertoad). I don't think I'd be willing to accept the risks for anything short of complete elimination of contacts & glasses.

As Bill Clinton said - "I feel your pain."

At my last VA physical, I was informed that my eyesight had degraded from 20/50 in 1990 to 20/200 in 2004. But, looking at the progession, it seems to have stabilized.

I looked into the Lazik, but the doctor there said that someone of my age bracket (33) should wait before having it, because the eyes change as we age. I've worn glasses since I was 6, so it's no big thing to me.

I would not stop someone from getting Lazik, but warn them to look into it, and try to get the best doctor they can. Would you trust a moron to aim a laser into YOUR eyes?

As for titties, I loves 'em. Can't get enough. Ever notice, on "The Honeymooners", sometimes Alice (Audrey Meadows) has "Erectus Nippleanius"?

For me contacts are simple enough that the risk of something going wrong, no matter how minute, it not worth it.

I remember when my mum looked at getting it done free in a clinical trial, they sent her this massive disclaimer (about an inch thick) which included the encouraging line "Noone has gone blind yet but you may be the first", with the bolding.

Oh yeah the disclaimers on approved medicines & procedures are nothing compared to the ones on experimental stuff!

Apparently "myodisc" means the lens is ground concave on both sides (like the lenses you draw pictures of in Physics 101).
That must make your eyes look funny.

There's also high-index glass, up to about 1.9 or so index of refraction, which can help. You have to sign your life away in the US to get them, as they don't meet shatterproofing standards.

I'd like to get LASIK done, but I'm too chicken that 20 years from now I'll go blind as a result.

hmmm..hot librarians! okay I prefer the glasses to fake boobs (fake boobs don't feel right...or look right..) but then again, I'm a tall lean whiteboy from kansas with long hair and somehow an accent that no-one can place :))

Say WHAT? Oh Jim, the board gods are not pleased...:p

Why? Because there will be fewer women flat as boards?

That's correct, but I think there's also something different to the material too or my glasses would weigh a helluva lot more than they do.
That's also correct! :cool: It looks kind of like your eye is at the end of a long tunnel. The effect is, I'm told, especially disconcerting in my right eye. I'll try to post a pic sometime if I can get a good one.

Don't look too closely, you'll poke your eyes out!