Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT WHY YOU WANT TO HAVE YOUR EYES LASERED. "This is surgery on the only pair of eyes you have," says Dr. George Waring, founder of the Emory Vision Correction Center in Atlanta. Only you can decide whether the benefits are worth the small but very real risk of irreversible damage to your eyesight. If you're satisfied with your glasses or contacts, then you're better off leaving well enough alone. You can always change your mind later, when you've had a chance to weigh the improvements that future technology will bring...
...cancer and AIDS. Better yet, this class of drugs has a low level of side effects. Drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and unsteadiness, if they do occur, can usually be alleviated by adjusting the dosages of the drug, while more severe side effects, such as liver toxicity, blood disorders and disturbed vision, are relatively rare...
...followed advances in vision-correcting surgery for more than a decade. My eyes were awful. I had glasses as a young child, contacts as a teenager, but lately I could wear only an exotic and costly kind of lens. Glasses didn't work as well. Allergy season was a nightmare. And yes, I had always dreamed of being able to wake up and read the clock across the room, to swim and see who was hanging around poolside. But I was also apprehensive--bad eyes are better than worse eyes, and there were some early horror stories...
...instead of getting better, as my doctor predicted, my vision worsened. I was told my corneas were extremely dry, and I should apply artificial tears every couple of hours. Then the surgeon was called in; he suggested I use the drops more often, about every 15 minutes. This wasn't especially practical for a journalist--no interviews longer than a quarter-hour and never mind the eye makeup, among other things--but I tried to stick to the schedule. It didn't do the trick...
...here's the worst part: my vision now can't be improved, except marginally, with glasses. The problem is on the surface of my eye, which isn't what lenses correct. One doctor likens it to scratches on the crystal of a watch. My eyes were always a little dry, but nobody seems to understand why they now need dramatically more moisture...