From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I got the paperwork today: 7000+ shots of laser into my eyes over a period
of 8 seconds. That's scary, good thing they didn't tell me that beforehand
. The new thingamajick monitors eye movement during the operation, and
has a very low (below 1%) failure rate, and of those failures very few are
sever (i.e. cannot be fixed with another operation).


Antti Kurenniemi

"Mark"  wrote in message
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> I'm glad you're thrilled with the results Antti; and I wish Glenn the best
> in his future surgery, especially because I get the willies just thinking
> about some doctor aiming a laser at my eyes let alone poking around with
> scalpels near my corneas...
>
> Brrr, I have empathy with anyone with an eyesight problem and admire your
> fortitude in allowing and/or needing and submitting to a doctor's poking
> around, both.
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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>> Yes, modern eye surgery is amazing.
>>
>> I'm going to have to have cataract surgery in the next couple of years,
>> as well as a cornea transplant in my right eye.  The right one has been
>> legally blind for years, suffers from keriticonus (eyeball elongates like
>> a football).  That eye has a mild cataract in it, and the left is just
>> starting, so all that is in front of me.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Glenn M.
>> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
>> news:465cf0c0{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> ...because I had eye surgery yesterday! This is pretty cool, I've had
>>> glasses since I was 5 years old, and finally I have had a couple of
>>> years when my eyesight hasn't gone worse so I could have the surgery,
>>> and it's brilliant! Took one 3 hour checkup session, and then a week
>>> later the operation which was also about 3 hours, but only a few minutes
>>> under the laser. A few hours after that I could actually see almost
>>> clearly. No pain, no nothing - except when the laser was doing it's
>>> thang, I could smell something like burning hair, and knowing what it
>>> was made my stomach turn a bit - but, it was over in seconds so not a
>>> big thing.
>>>
>>> It's now been 18 hours since the operation, and bright objects are still
>>> a bit blurry (text on the computer monitor for example is not completely
>>> sharp), and my left eye feels like there's something in there, but other
>>> than that I'm good to go. I'm soo happy now :-)
>>>
>>> Totally recommended to anyone who's a candidate, and about 17 thumbs up.
>>>
>>>
>>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>> ("See ya!")
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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