Just a short entry today, no review (maybe later) and no long entry. Just a shortie to talk about my Lasik surgery today. I’m T-minus 3 hours and I’m excited about getting it done. I’ve had bad eyesight since high school, and have pretty much worn glasses the whole time. Hopefully this will be the first time I don’t have to wear glasses since then.

I’ve been quoted a success rate of 98% for 20-20 vision or better, and I also opted for the life-time guarantee (if I ever need another surgery, say to correct something or my eyesight starts going downhill with age, it’s covered). Not a bad deal.

Financial Deal

Another aspect, since they WANT business quick, they offered a discount to do it now rather than after the first of the year. This is to convince those people with Flex Medical Accounts to take the plunge now rather than in Jan-Feb timeframe. The discount was enough to make up for the tax savings I would have received, so it’s a wash for me.

Additionally I’m using my Trapped HSA Money and a zero-interest for a year medical credit account to cover the remaining. So there’s no out-of-pocket costs for this procedure. Kind of nice around Christmas time.

I’ll blog later on the results and my experience with the company So far though, I’m pretty impressed. Usually surgeries are scary to contemplate, but they’ve done so many of these that they’ve got it down to an easily-repeatable process. Also, the computer laser is going to be doing the vast majority of the actual work, and as a deep technophile, I’m more comfortable with a machine doing ultra fine surgery than I am with a fallible human, not that the doctors aren’t skilled at what they do.

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