[redheadtoo]

a radial keratotamy.

It's the type of eye surgery that they used to do before the more modern laser surgeries were invented. The surgeon would cut tiny slits in the lens, like bicycle spokes.

[Issaquahking]

RK Would get you bounced? Good thing I had my RK ten years after I got of the Navy!

Even though I'm back in glasses ten years after the operation, I'd still get it done again.