My wife had the procedure on both eyes recently. Before, she needed more than six dipoters of correction in each eye; now she has 20/15 vision.
We went to the best doctor we could find (and in Houston, there are a whole lot of doctors). She elected for the Intralase procedure which doesn't use blades. The OR is open to view to all visitors when not in use, and all procedures are televised. Everything was extremely professional, which isn't surprising given that it cost $4500.
Oh, was it worth it. She could across the room without glasses only twenty minutes after the procedure. They gave her an extra valium, she went home and that was it. Of course there were several followups, and when they decided that one eye could use more correction they gave her another procedure for free (and will continue to do so for two years).
Now, note that my wife was legally blind without correction. If your vision is better and you're just looking to fix your eyes out of vanity then your priorities should obviously be different. Yes, she has artifacts, mainly starring around bright lights at night. But that happened with her glasses and contacts anyway, and what little artifacts there were are fading with time.
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My wife had the procedure on both eyes recently. Before, she needed more than six dipoters of correction in each eye; now she has 20/15 vision.
We went to the best doctor we could find (and in Houston, there are a whole lot of doctors). She elected for the Intralase procedure which doesn't use blades. The OR is open to view to all visitors when not in use, and all procedures are televised. Everything was extremely professional, which isn't surprising given that it cost $4500.
Oh, was it worth it. She could across the room without glasses only twenty minutes after the procedure. They gave her an extra valium, she went home and that was it. Of course there were several followups, and when they decided that one eye could use more correction they gave her another procedure for free (and will continue to do so for two years).
Now, note that my wife was legally blind without correction. If your vision is better and you're just looking to fix your eyes out of vanity then your priorities should obviously be different. Yes, she has artifacts, mainly starring around bright lights at night. But that happened with her glasses and contacts anyway, and what little artifacts there were are fading with time.
The server that runs fvwm.org lives in my office, and it didn't start smoking or anything. Outbound bandwidth peaked at 13.7Mbps at 7:30PM CDT. CPU load never got above about 10%. I never saw any refused connections but if I had known this was going to hit /. I would have rebuilt Apache to handle more than 255 at once.