I had it done in december 1994 which makes it almost decade ago now. My original vision was incredibly short sighted in that I could barely read a sign with foot high letters from 10 feet away or so.
Following surgery my vision has remained above 20/20 though after the first surgery I did get a minor correction (though this was expected and didn't cost a thing extra as most people has the quality of vision reduce as the eyes heal over the next week or so), frankly my surgeon explained everything extremely well, every risk, every complication and I did a hell of alot of research on the net.
Pretty much every complication that can occur during the surgery can be corrected though with modern laser surgery and it cousins the lasers don't even go a micron off target and they do triple redundant measurement and calculation prior to surgery so you have bugger all chance of an error.
The horror stories you may hear of probally as a result from a bad surgeon using 20 year old equipment. I recommended it to my family and friends and I have yet to hear one person that isn't stunned and kicking themself for not having it done sooner.
This is the place I did it http://www.perfectvision.com.au/index.asp surgeons name was Con Moshegov and gives you an outline of the equipment they use etc though I don't know if its the same equipment they used when I had mine done, I doubt it infact as they update every few years it still should give you an idea of what a good place to get it done will do for you.
Perhaps they are just going to the moon then use mass drivers to launch cosmonauts + a couple of tins of spam + a few ferns inside beachballs marsward!
Ha!
Perhaps I should post when more sober:)
Insert your red planet jokes here!:)
Seriously though, goverment agengies overestimating budgets and scoffing that any other nation is capable of achieving thier goals before them? Gosh thats unprecidented...
Well put and covered almost every point I was going to make.
It should be noted though there are a couple of major players that don't always follow this model and are powerhouses because of it.
Eg. Rockstar, while they probaly the dev studio with the most poorly thought out name in the industry, they have done some stunningly original stuff. I am not talking about GTA, yeah its edgy but its just sequels.
Take a look at manhunt sometime, yes its packed with gore but it also has a stunning anticlimactic style of gameplay that I can't recall seeing in any other title. More then this, its becoming thier trademark.
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I had it done in december 1994 which makes it almost decade ago now. My original vision was incredibly short sighted in that I could barely read a sign with foot high letters from 10 feet away or so.
Following surgery my vision has remained above 20/20 though after the first surgery I did get a minor correction (though this was expected and didn't cost a thing extra as most people has the quality of vision reduce as the eyes heal over the next week or so), frankly my surgeon explained everything extremely well, every risk, every complication and I did a hell of alot of research on the net.
Pretty much every complication that can occur during the surgery can be corrected though with modern laser surgery and it cousins the lasers don't even go a micron off target and they do triple redundant measurement and calculation prior to surgery so you have bugger all chance of an error.
The horror stories you may hear of probally as a result from a bad surgeon using 20 year old equipment. I recommended it to my family and friends and I have yet to hear one person that isn't stunned and kicking themself for not having it done sooner.
This is the place I did it http://www.perfectvision.com.au/index.asp surgeons name was Con Moshegov and gives you an outline of the equipment they use etc though I don't know if its the same equipment they used when I had mine done, I doubt it infact as they update every few years it still should give you an idea of what a good place to get it done will do for you.
Hrm screw dance parties someone needs to license this games hardware tech with a little modification to make a game that will teach me Kung-Fu :)
This calls for some poorly thought out names:
:p
Survivor 26: Russian Space Travel
Joe Cosmonaut
My Big Fat Obnoxious Pooly Built Spaceship
I'm sure you can do better
Perhaps they are just going to the moon then use mass drivers to launch cosmonauts + a couple of tins of spam + a few ferns inside beachballs marsward! Ha! Perhaps I should post when more sober :)
Insert your red planet jokes here! :)
Seriously though, goverment agengies overestimating budgets and scoffing that any other nation is capable of achieving thier goals before them? Gosh thats unprecidented...
Well put and covered almost every point I was going to make. It should be noted though there are a couple of major players that don't always follow this model and are powerhouses because of it. Eg. Rockstar, while they probaly the dev studio with the most poorly thought out name in the industry, they have done some stunningly original stuff. I am not talking about GTA, yeah its edgy but its just sequels. Take a look at manhunt sometime, yes its packed with gore but it also has a stunning anticlimactic style of gameplay that I can't recall seeing in any other title. More then this, its becoming thier trademark.
Ahaha