I did it almost four years ago. It cost $5,000 at the time and I would gladly spend the money again.
I started wearing glasses in the second grade, and my prescription got progressively worse over time. Take some frames with clear lenses in them, smear some Vaseline on the outside, and try them on. That's what my vision was like right before the surgery. It was something ridiculous like 20/800 in the left eye and 20/900 in the right.
The whole prodecure only took about fifteen minutes, with about 90 seconds of that (per eye) actually getting zapped by the laser. It makes a loud, snapping kind of sound and there's an unpleasant smell from some kind of gas burning. They give you a valium and some anesthetic eye drops beforehand. The only part I'd characterize as even mildly uncomfortable was when he used the microkeratome to cut my cornea, creating the flap that they move out of the way before the acutal laser re-shaping. There's a slight vacuum that immobilizies your eyeball during this part, and the upward pull was a little disconcerting. I should also mention that you've got a speculum inserted, spreading your eyelids to prevent you from blinking. No pain or discomfort from that, and the laser itself is also painless.
He used some tiny little sponges on a stick to staunch the slight bleeding from the corneal flaps, then he taped some clear plastic shields over each eye. When I got off the table, my eyes were tearing up quite a bit, but I could read the analog clock on the other side of the room. WOW.
On the ride home (with someone else driving), the light was hurting my eyes a bit, but I was ignoring it, thrilled that I could actually read the license plates on the other cars.
Per their recommendations, I took some Tylenol PM and went to sleep. This is mainly to give your eyes a rest. I work up at 2 am and the red LED's on my alarm clock were just...razor sharp. I didn't sleep the rest of the night, just wandered around looking at things, goofy as that sounds.
Over the next few months, my vision would be ultra sharp in the morning, then get a bit blurry towards the end of the day. I mentioned this to the doc on follow up visits, and evidently that's common with a lot of people. It takes time for your eyes to adjust.
Now, I could not be happier. That late-day eye tiredness is long-gone, and I have no "haloing", hyper-photosensitivity, or any other complaints.
I can swim and not squint at everything, and do any activity without worrying about losing a lens. People who've never needed vision correction take all this for granted.
Do it. There's nothing like dumping the glasses in the goodwill box and chucking the contact lenses and their assorted supplies into the trash. I even have the whole procedure on video, I've shown it to a lot of people who were considering LASIK and wanted to know what to expect.
This little nasty connects to a Russian IP address, 217.107.218.147 to download. According to SANS, there's also one American IP address it tries for - anyone know what it is?
There are FCC regulations, but none that pertain to channel usage in the case of 802.11 wireless devices. The regulations deal with maximum power levels and what portion of the RF spectrum may be used. There are no regulations pertaining to who may use which channels. If that weren't the case, anyone setting up an AP (or for that matter, using a 2.4GHz cordless phone) would need the equivalent of a ham radio operator's license.
Antisocial practices like hogging all the channels might encourage the FCC to start licensing whatever next-gen wireless devices come along, and I'm not so sure that's a good thing.
Maybe you ought to go and look up the latest (Year 2000 and newer) MUGGING statistics. You're quoting ones for murder.
The U.S. does still lead in murder. For just about every other type of violent crime (muggings, rape, "hot" burglaries, etc) as well as property crimes, the U.K. takes top honors.
That's surprising to hear. I've called UPS a number of times for help with their WorldShip app, and it's always been a pleasant experience with a tech who knows his/her stuff. They've even stayed on the phone upwards of half an hour when multiple reboots of our 200MHz Win95 computer were necessary, and didn't once hang up or complain.
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I'm on hold with them now, waiting to get the download info. The lady I spoke with said I'd likely be waiting about 45 minutes. Huzzah.
What's the point of doing it this way? Just post the damned patch to the downloads section of the web site, already.
I started wearing glasses in the second grade, and my prescription got progressively worse over time. Take some frames with clear lenses in them, smear some Vaseline on the outside, and try them on. That's what my vision was like right before the surgery. It was something ridiculous like 20/800 in the left eye and 20/900 in the right.
The whole prodecure only took about fifteen minutes, with about 90 seconds of that (per eye) actually getting zapped by the laser. It makes a loud, snapping kind of sound and there's an unpleasant smell from some kind of gas burning. They give you a valium and some anesthetic eye drops beforehand. The only part I'd characterize as even mildly uncomfortable was when he used the microkeratome to cut my cornea, creating the flap that they move out of the way before the acutal laser re-shaping. There's a slight vacuum that immobilizies your eyeball during this part, and the upward pull was a little disconcerting. I should also mention that you've got a speculum inserted, spreading your eyelids to prevent you from blinking. No pain or discomfort from that, and the laser itself is also painless.
He used some tiny little sponges on a stick to staunch the slight bleeding from the corneal flaps, then he taped some clear plastic shields over each eye. When I got off the table, my eyes were tearing up quite a bit, but I could read the analog clock on the other side of the room. WOW.
On the ride home (with someone else driving), the light was hurting my eyes a bit, but I was ignoring it, thrilled that I could actually read the license plates on the other cars.
Per their recommendations, I took some Tylenol PM and went to sleep. This is mainly to give your eyes a rest. I work up at 2 am and the red LED's on my alarm clock were just...razor sharp. I didn't sleep the rest of the night, just wandered around looking at things, goofy as that sounds.
Over the next few months, my vision would be ultra sharp in the morning, then get a bit blurry towards the end of the day. I mentioned this to the doc on follow up visits, and evidently that's common with a lot of people. It takes time for your eyes to adjust.
Now, I could not be happier. That late-day eye tiredness is long-gone, and I have no "haloing", hyper-photosensitivity, or any other complaints. I can swim and not squint at everything, and do any activity without worrying about losing a lens. People who've never needed vision correction take all this for granted.
Do it. There's nothing like dumping the glasses in the goodwill box and chucking the contact lenses and their assorted supplies into the trash. I even have the whole procedure on video, I've shown it to a lot of people who were considering LASIK and wanted to know what to expect.
This little nasty connects to a Russian IP address, 217.107.218.147 to download. According to SANS, there's also one American IP address it tries for - anyone know what it is?
Antisocial practices like hogging all the channels might encourage the FCC to start licensing whatever next-gen wireless devices come along, and I'm not so sure that's a good thing.
Maybe you ought to go and look up the latest (Year 2000 and newer) MUGGING statistics. You're quoting ones for murder.
The U.S. does still lead in murder. For just about every other type of violent crime (muggings, rape, "hot" burglaries, etc) as well as property crimes, the U.K. takes top honors.
That's surprising to hear. I've called UPS a number of times for help with their WorldShip app, and it's always been a pleasant experience with a tech who knows his/her stuff. They've even stayed on the phone upwards of half an hour when multiple reboots of our 200MHz Win95 computer were necessary, and didn't once hang up or complain.