Heading out in just a few minutes to have someone I’ve never met slice into my eyeballs with a hand-held laser. And I’m paying him for the privilege.
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semi-great I guess… if you overlook the impoverished jobless failshit farce part
Don’t blink!
Hand-held?
You having something other than Lasik done, or are you having it done at the Lasik/empanada stand down the street?
Done. G’luck?
You do realize that if you wear reading glass, that you’ll continue to need reading glasses (Unless things have changed in 5 years).
I had surgery so that I wouldn’t have to wear glasses (Bi-focals) or contacts. I didn’t ask and they didn’t tell me till I walked in the door for the operation that I would still need reading glasses. I did it anyway, it’s pretty good to be able to see the fields when I’m officiating with out fog, but I might wouldn’t do it again, just because I go through about $500.00 of reading glasses per year at about $5.00 a pop. And the whole thing was to get rid of so many pairs of glasses. I now have bi-focal Oakleys (For baseball) that cost more than I want to admit, and can’t get my Wayfarers changed because, even for as vain an asshole as I am, I can’t drop that kind of dough.
But I look hot, I gotta say.
you mean like a light saber ??? way cool …
Some days I think I’ve seen enough too.
What?
Ahhh, a quick test.
If you see a boat in this pic, ask for your money back… )
Good luck Jeff.
I don’t wear reading glasses yet. And I get lifetime adjustments, so I can have one eye weakened if I’m having trouble reading in a few years.
Good luck, Jeff.
Good luck! Just remember, it’s “A B E C D / F D E C B…”
I’ve had cataract surgery, and I’m one of those people who develops scar tissue behind the lenses; it just happens. They use a laser to blast that away. Let me tell you, they could use that technique to make al Qaeda prisoners spill their guts, way easier than waterboarding.
Now, it doesn’t hurt, mind you, but the ophthalmologist puts a contact device onto your eye to keep you from blinking . . . and the whole procedure is like staring at welder flash for three minutes straight.
Our esteemed host wrote:
If you’ll just wait a few more years, there will be enhanced ocular implants available to take care of any problems, and they are self-adjusting.
If you can read this, you’re too close.
See you later. oh…
Slart,
Having it done at an empanada stand by a guy with a modified UPC scanner would be silly. It’s a kiosk in the mall called The Eye See You.
Good luck.
Best of luck, Jeff.
They say new peepers are cool, JG. Go get ’em.
Your life will be immeasurably enhanced. I had LASIK done over 10 years ago, back when they were doing it by holding a magnifying glass over your eyeball to focus sunshine on it, and it is just da best.
Avoid any upsell. They can’t give you heat vision no matter what the man subtly implies.
Good luck.
Tell the guy to set the phaser to “clear”.
“AUUUUGH! My EYES!!”
“Calm down, I haven’t started yet.”
I buy reading glasses for $14.99 per 3-pack at Walgreens. Compared to the single-pair purchases that ended up with glasses getting broken or lost, these cheapo specs are holding up great.
Good luck, JEff
My #25 was for donald.
My laser surgery was done with my eyeball clamped in a vise, using a laser driven by a computer.
Ok, I lied about the vise part. The worst part of that, aside from the pain afterward (it didn’t start getting bad until a couple of hours later) was when they remove the surface cells from the cornea. Not hurty, just creepy having someone Q-tip the surface of your eyeball.
Luck.
If you go blind, we’ll know it’s a Glenn-Beckesque publicity stunt.
Remember to tip, or you may end up looking a little funny.
All the best.
Good luck.
I’ve wanted to do that, but I have to not be deploying and not have spent all disposable income on the $^%$#& house.
I had a stone chip in one eye, and after removing the chip I had a little laser surgery to smooth it back out. Unfortunately while I was strapped down, dilated, and had the Clockwork Orange eye-opener in place, the machine started “acting up”, as my oh so pleasant eye surgeon put it. Nothing quite gives you a feeling of comfort like having one doc on the phone with tech support and the other leafing through a user’s manual while preparing to blast your eye with a laser. Worked out fine.
Best wishes, Jeff.
Um, I looked for the boat in serr8d’s #8 post. I looked and looked and looked. Didn’t see the boat.
Good luck with teh laser vision Jeff.
You’ll be one of those who deliberately takes his dog in a muslim driver’s cab, won’t you?
OUTLAW!
luck you
oh add ;) too above
Jeff…. you’ll love it… eye drops… keep doing lots of eye drops… you’ll have a thousand little fake tear bottles all over the place, but thats good for healing
yes.
curiously.
it’s a fucking enigma really.
I hope all went well, Jeff.
Don’t worry, you won’t remember a thing.
Good Luck man. I had it done years ago, one of the best things I have ever done
If your appointment was early, you’re probably home now in a darkened room, rocked gently by some wonderous pharmaceuticals….
why should this Friday be any different?
I had LASEK 4 years ago (yes “E” instead of “I” because my corneas were on the thin side). Did the monovision route, with left eye for computer distance and right eye for far distance. Only need cheaters for very small print or doing stuff like threading needles.
LOVE it!
I assume that everyone knows that no plan covers this kind of surgery, which is why the price keeps dropping.
idiot lasik is falling in price because the statists aren’t involved
qi chump/meya/RD
LASIK/LASEK has both advanced and gone down in price because of capitalism.
Stay-At-Home Dads have one helluva great union, sounds like.
f**k your collectivist vision
You should get Barack Obama’s job you get over 6 vacations a year plus you’re not accountable for dick.
plus you get to build capacious victory mosques on the dead carcasses of dead Americans what died screaming
Qi Chan Ramirez?
Any relation to Pei Ling Goldfarb?
That lady at the empanada stand has dirty fingernails
– The Obama-Pelosi body parts and landing gear Burlington factory outlet Jihadist victory Mosque will never be built.
Jeff has a job — evidently a more worthwhile one than Ching-Chong has.
Blessings and best wishes, Jeff.