Right. In fact, the odds are my vision without glasses after Lasik would be worse than my current vision with glasses.
oooh, i think i got it.
yeah, those are good reasons why i’d never consider lasik. i’d just assume that there will some side effect that i won’t like, and there is no turning back. it’s just not worth the risk.
my father had perfect vision most of his adult life, and now he’s pretty much blind from some old people problem. something to look forward to if i live that long. 
i never had the perfect vision like my father though and needed glasses even younger than my mother.
but both parents needed surgery on their eyes to see at all when they got old. seems most old people do. i’m not messing with that before i have to.
Yeah, most old people need cataract surgery. It works really well, and most people I know are delighted with the results of it.
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not sure what my parents needed, but my father has some other issue with his eyes that made him close to blind that cannot be fixed by surgery, even though he had perfect vision for most of his adult life.
whatever surgery my mother got fixed her eyes.
Macular degeneration? My SIL is in early stages of that 
I also thought about diabetic retinopathy, but don’t know if ao fan papa suffered from the diabetus
Yep, that’s it. It is awful. It is pure bad luck that causes it and age. My father had perfect vision most of his adult life and them bam! Macular degeneration made him pretty much blind
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Yeah my SIL is fighting it off as best she can. Hoping for a cure or at least a stop before it gets too bad.
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My dad had the “dry” form. He was taking eye vitamins (Vitalux) for it. It helped some.
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my mother had cataracts. those they fixed right up with surgery. my father had both cataracts and macular degeneration. just fixed the cataracts.
he always had shitty hearing, but perfect vision, so now he’s close to both blind and deaf.
just went to the supermarket with no mask. i don’t think the new rule is in effect until mid january and imma wait until the bitter end.
I know I’m late to this, but how does that paragraph “directly answer” me?
I pointed out multiple problems with the Bangladeshi study when it came out, but I don’t think I ever made the strawman claim the authors refute in that paragraph.
That was three months ago, and i assume i was responding to something you’d said recently. But i certainly don’t remember what.
those masks i ordered from the website lucy linked to arrive tomorrow! i normally would be hesitant to order from a site i don’t know and with not a lot of reviews, but really fast. I need decent masks to fly.
and i just noticed that there was a 20% off promo-code that i entirely missed
Email them with the promo-code. I betcha they’ll do a price adjustment.
i guess can’t hurt. I’ll try.
well, we’ll see if i get a response laughing hysterically at my request.
My mom, too. Before, she read a lot, did needlepoint, crossword and jigsaw puzzles. Lost it all. Also got Charles Bonnet syndrome and thought she was going crazy.
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I don’t remember seeing this article posted anywhere. Sorry if it already was. I thought this was very interesting about the 5-micron issue.