From: "Mark" 

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
news:465cf700$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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