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To: Treeless Branch; utahagen; Secret Agent Man; The Cajun; xjcsa; freedomwarrior998; Hildy; ...

I think I’ll stick to my glasses, I’m just too squeamish for that sort of thing. Sides’ I look smarter this way and my low, criminal forehead and car-door ears are not so noticeable.

Not to digress too much but LASIK is often cited as an example of free-market medicine in action. Very few health plans cover LASIK so without third-party payers the customers shop around and look for the best deal. As a result, as the technology has advanced and improved, the price has gone down. Like the rest of the free market and unlike the rest of medicine where it is a given gospel that medical advances can only cost exponentially more and more...


15 posted on 07/13/2009 10:52:40 PM PDT by sinanju
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In the end, I’m glad I did it. My complaint about the eyeball pressure would have been alleviated if they’d just told me beforehand to expect it.

My dry eye problem is exacerbated by the dry Las Vegas climate and the two bottles of wine I drink every night.

But almost nothing beats waking up to clearly see the hummingbirds feeding at the feeder outside my bedroom window every morning.


16 posted on 07/13/2009 10:59:19 PM PDT by Royal Wulff
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