Sailaway wrote:

Rosalie B wrote:
I DID NOT SAY THAT. I just mentioned that Lasik was another
possibility.

Sorry if there was any misunderstanding Rosalie, I lost that post I was
referring to and was relying on memory for the gist of it.

What I was inferring, or at least what I intended to infer, wasn't that
you were against anything or for anything else (the reply wasn't about
you), just that I seemed to remember you had brought it up in a way that
asked something like why do that when there is Lasik.

Well it did seem as if you were setting me up in order to make fun of
me - your original post said

Rosalie B asked why would anyone want to exercise their eyes to get
better vision when there was Lasik.

I think you could have given the reasons against it without bringing
me into it at all. Because what I actually wrote was

"It has just occurred to me that you [meaning the OP whose post was
immediately below mine] could have lasiks done on just one eye. That
way you could read with one eye and see distance with the other.
Sailors that we know where she had always worn contacts, she got that
done, and doesn't have to wear glasses at all now."

I left the stuff about the eye exercises in at the bottom of the post
(I top posted after the original post) because I thought it was
valuable information which could stand to be repeated. It wasn't a
disparagement - quite the opposite. I suppose I could have cut it all
out and then there wouldn't have been a misunderstanding that I was
contrasting two different methods of treatment.

I know that eye exercises can help in some instances..

And I do agree
that most people are happy with the surgery, esp. compared to what they
have been going through with glasses or contacts. I just wanted people
to know that there are important reasons to use it vs. Lasik so they
would know there was a choice other than what their
optomotrists/opthamologists were telling them and a choice other than
voluntarily having body parts cut off. I have to admit that there are
some subjects that get my shorts in a knot (and I'd guess it affects how
I write) - one being medical advice/proceedures vs. patients actually
doing something proactive to heal or avoid disease in the first place.
That takes education and effort and unfortunately only a relatively few
are interested so we have our present idiotic medical boondoggle and
associated costs instead of a healthy and self-sufficient population.
rant off

I was in the gym the other day and I was explaining to the trainers
that I wanted to increase my flexibility, but that I do have some
joint problems, and they wanted to know why I didn't just get a knee
and hip replacement. I've had enough surgery Thank You Very Much.


So my answer was only intended as education, not intended at all to be
about you, and not intended as any kind of slight whatsoever.