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Post by jimmygscfc on Jan 30, 2004 9:53:00 GMT
Considering it but it's gonna cost £1,500 and as it's still a relatively new operation, long-term effects are difficult to quantify  |
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Post by Chorley on Jan 30, 2004 9:54:14 GMT
Yeah! I wanna know too! Come on! Tell! Tell!!  |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 30, 2004 10:05:19 GMT
I haven't but an aged aunt of mine has. She was nervous as hell but it went well and she seemed to find it all quite painless. Not quite sure what it was for - she went into all the details on the phone but I am a big softee and din't really listen - just made the right noises down the phone. £1,500's nowt - just a couple of skiing holidays to a man of your calibre! ;D Hope you make the right decision and that it goes as well as it did for my aunt. Just don't tell me the story on the phone coz I'll just grunt in the right places and not really listen!  |
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Post by jimmygscfc on Jan 30, 2004 10:10:56 GMT
Adie, I refuse to be your guinea pig  Your beee-atch but not your damn guinea pig  John, what I want is love and understanding.....someone to tell me it'll be alright. But no, you liken me to your geriatric aunt and tell me to cut down on my holidays  Forget it ;D |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 30, 2004 10:20:57 GMT
Mike, you can have all the love and understanding you want from me - so long as I don't have to listen to the details.
Go for it Mike, you'll be fine, better than fine, you'll be twice the man you were. Afterwards you'll wonder what all the fuss was about and your skiing will improve so much that you'll tackle the Swiss Wall above Avoriaz whilst eating your lunch and drinking your chocolat. Afterwards you'll sue the resort for bashing out some of the moguls on several of the black runs saying that with your new found eagle eyed vision you want a real test of your ability not the namby pamby blacks which are proliferating all over the Alps.
Whilst you are away on holiday you will become a babe magnet and return home with a string of them in tow and your missus will be delighted to share you with them coz she is so glad to have you back and she will immediately order an Emperor size bed for foursomes and draw up a roster to ensure that each woman gets a fair share of your strangely magnetic body.
That enough love and understanding for you? ;D
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Post by JR on Jan 30, 2004 10:21:31 GMT
Cousin of mine had it in Boston, Ma a couple of years ago. Said it WAS fairly painful but well worth it in the end.
Have considered it myself but never got round to looking at in depth.
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Post by jimmygscfc on Jan 30, 2004 10:26:09 GMT
JR....'...never got round to looking at it in depth.' ;D PMSL
John...that's more like it. I've just called a clinic to book a consultation. No, not that sort of clininc ;D
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Post by JR on Jan 30, 2004 11:08:28 GMT
Actually Jimmy thats a way of saying I'm a coward and after Homer Simpson had it I've bottled it.
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Post by Northy on Jan 30, 2004 13:29:42 GMT
A friend of mine and his wife both had it done last year, both had glasses previously. Both are fine and and now have good eye sight , they both had it done somewher in london as they live in kent
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Post by jimmygscfc on Jan 30, 2004 14:08:58 GMT
I'm off for my consultation on Feb 10 and will have op on my return from skiing and a wedding I'm off to so looking like early March. Bring it on |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 30, 2004 14:36:03 GMT
Pity, so the bevy of concubines and the Emperor size bed and the roster drawn up by your missus will have to wait until after next year's skiing holiday! ;D
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Post by jimmygscfc on Jan 30, 2004 15:51:15 GMT
John, don't forget I'm off for a sneaky long weekend to Champlouc with a mate end of season ;D
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 30, 2004 16:04:45 GMT
Good on yer Mike. Quite liked Champoluc when I was there a year or so back. Not huge but linked with Gressony and relatively quiet when we were there. Not much really hard skiing for a legend like yourself of course! ;D
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Post by jimmygscfc on Jan 30, 2004 17:18:37 GMT
Staying in the Hotel California where each room is music-themed in a 70's west coast rock kinda way, with the only disco in town (plus Karaoke) and guiness on tap means that hard skiing isn't a massive priority, although Alagna (if we can get there) has serious off piste. Got any pics on your site of the Champoluc holiday? |
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Post by cadmanstar on Jan 30, 2004 21:37:42 GMT
JimmyG
I had laser-eye treatment last year through Ultralase. Do it. Definately the best money I've ever spent. Don't go cheap is my only recommendation. It cost me the best part of £2000 but well worth the results.
I won't lie, I had a problems with one of my eyes and have had to attend the various clinics more often than I could have ever imagined. But the aftercare service that I experienced made me realise where my extra money had gone.
Do it!
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Post by crowey on Jan 31, 2004 13:12:45 GMT
jimmyg
If you want it done, come here. We will put you up. Bill Glasson, who is the president of the AMA & also an Ophthalmologist, told me not that long ago that the only person that he would let touch his eyes was Lee Lenton in Townsville. Cost would be similar/less, you would have a holiday etc. I will personally speak to Lee for you.
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Post by danceswithclams on Jan 23, 2008 4:38:59 GMT
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Post by myleftboot on Jan 23, 2008 11:28:12 GMT
I can't fault the eye hospital up Harts Hill. I had a huge cyst growing behind my left eye last year and they got down to sorting it out no problem. Surgeon said he had never seen a cyst that big in all the years of him doing the job.
The laser treatment isn't the best and can feel like your being shot by a taser gun at times but it is more of an electric shock type thing than pain itself. In saying that for a few moments of discomfort the results can be cracking.
Get it done. I recommend it if it needs doing.
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Post by muckakev on Jan 23, 2008 12:36:13 GMT
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Post by frasier37 on Jan 23, 2008 22:09:39 GMT
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Post by corkster on Jan 23, 2008 23:26:55 GMT
There's also a new procedure where ya sleep wearing hard contact lenses that retrain your eyes so you don't need the surgery. I don't know any details about it though
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Post by ricksastokie on Jan 24, 2008 0:50:13 GMT
LOL at Dances with Clams
Very clever!
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Post by Mason_Stokie on Jan 24, 2008 12:32:10 GMT
my misses had her eyes done about 6 or 7 years ago.
can't remember the firm that did it but she got a BOGOF deal and paid £750 i think it was...
anyway, her eyes were, she tells me, pretty bad (-8 whatever that means).
All went pretty well until a few weeks later.
Then she had some issues with small blood vessels popping at the back of her eye. the docs said that the surgery didn't cause this...
She had to go on steroids for about 6 months.
as i said - this was a few years back. all been fine since and she says it's the best thing she ever did
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Your beee-atch but not your damn guinea pig 
Forget it ;D
