My LASEK Eye Surgery

So I.m a filmmaker and yet my first contribution is a video of my LASEK (Not LASIK) surgery. I had my surgery done at Park Avenue Laser in NYC by Dr. Emil Chynn who I highly recommend if you.re thinking about the surgery. It.s four days later and I.m still a little blurry, but hey, I was able to edit this video together and upload it, so there.s progress.

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[XxXWAKEXxX]

WTF, I thought Lasek surgery didn't use the blade?

[livelikeriley]

There was no blade - that little hockey stick thing removed the flap - a blade is much different and kind of scary - google it for a photo.

[LASIKComplications]

American Medical Association, Report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs: Physicians should not offer financial incentives or other valuable consideration to patients in exchange for recruitment of other patients. Such incentives can distort the information that patients provide to potential patients, thus distorting the expectations of potential patients and compromising the trust that is the foundation of the patient physician relationship.

[livelikeriley]

Yeah - except I don't really care about the incentive. I would tell you if Dr. Chynn was a bad doctor - He's a little aloof and somewhat odd - but as an eye surgeon he's pretty top notch. I had dry eye for a while, but Dr. Chynn gave me a permanent punctual plug that has worked wonders. I would certainly recommend him financial incentive or not...trust me, even with the discount - if he fucked up my eyes, you'd know about it :) - I see great..20/20...and recommend Dr. Chynn :)

[whatup1988]

ur eye color is cool man!

[livelikeriley]

ughh...thanks :)

[TheFr3sh1]

Do you get a discount for having him teach while doing the procedure?

[TheFr3sh1]

was he seriously teaching during the procedure? I would be bothered by all the people in the room

[rzxwm10]

@livelikeriley How are you doing now?

[TheLeggybird]

Thank you for this i had Lasik about a year ago and i got to go back to have one again although the surgeon is undecided as to do Lasik or Lasek this time round at least i know what Lasek involves now many thanks again x

[kkabline94]

@JohnyK07 i dunno its some kind of substance with a bit of alcohol in it or something, but i read it off some site before, maybe im wrong. whatever it is, its simply a sterilising agent. and alcohol is only volatile at high temperatures.

[JohnyK07]

@kkabline94 What? Alcohol??!! Are we even talking about the same substance?

2 things everybody knows about (or should):

First, poured alcohol doesn't solidify! In fact it evaporates very quickly, it's highly volatile!

And second, you should never pour alcohol in the eyes!! That's crazy! Try that and see what happens! (do NOT really try it, ok? I was just making a point: it will burn like hell!)

[kkabline94]

@JohnyK07 umm he actually was scraping off the alcohol that you saw him pour on...it solidified and he scraped it off gently because it turned into a gel-like substance :) and yes the other person is right, youre desribing lasik where they use a blade

[Ronin2828]

@Ronin2828 Had my Lasek proceedure with Ultralase just under 2 weeks ago and it was the best decision of my life. The pain was virtually no existent. Aside from 6 or 7 hours of stinging afterward so I'd recommend having this done on a Friday morning or something. My Vision is FANTASTIC!!, better than 20/10 - though it was only 20/30 - 20/40 before. I'm totally stoked.