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Old 09-03-2008, 01:39 AM   #11
Juniper
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Originally Posted by wolf View Post
Well ... if it would work without leaving me with a load of loose skin requiring multiple plastic surgeries,

if it would not require any additional maintenance,

if it wouldn't have the nasty little secret side effect of the bariatric surgeries (folks just up and die a couple of years after they have their stomachs stapled, you heard it here first),

then maybe I'd give it some serious consideration.

Bear in mind, however, that I continually ask my cow orker who is still paying for her laser eye surgery, "So, you gone blind yet? You missing that night vision terribly much?"

I'm not one of those first-adopter kind of people, or whatever they're called.
Just a couple of data points.

A lady from my church, mid 40's & mom of 3, died the winter before last following a family snow tubing trip. Evidently a nasty spill from the snow tube ruptured something internal. When I heard about this, I totally freaked out, because I really like that particular activity - tubing at Perfect North Slopes in Indiana is one of my family's favorite winter trips. OMG, I'm 40...I can't tube anymore, what if I die too? But then someone let it slip to me that she'd had bariatric surgery, lost a bunch of weight in the last year, and that's what caused the fatal incident - a minor injury which would have been nothing to a normal person killed her.

So I guess I'm safe to slide down that hill, after all.

Second point - a good friend of mine got Lasik three years ago. He LOVES it. He has no problems whatsoever, even at night.

As for me, I'm nearly blind - I got a consultation way back when it was still called radial keratotomy and they said they could improve my vision but I'd still have to wear glasses and could never wear contacts again, so I passed on it. Maybe things are different now. I'll consider it, maybe in a year or so, when I get my finances and my mother's estate settled and figure out if I can afford it or not.

I think I'll let my husband go first.

Yeah, I'm not an early adopter either. With most things, I usually figure that if things are working OK, why screw them up?
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