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Title: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on September 22, 2010, 01:34:58 AM
Man I can sympathize with Chuck in this strip!  Last spring I went in for my medical and discovered my eyesight had deteriorated to the point I could no longer pass the eye test without prescription glasses.  "Ok" says I, "go out and get prescription glasses."  I did, but when I did I discovered the price of prescription sunglasses was prohibitive!   ::eek::  No more cheapie MacArthur mirror shades for me, and I cannot afford $300 sunglasses!

I must say that the world does appear much brighter than before, but I lost my "coolness" several years ago when my hair began to turn grey and fall out.

Good one fellas!   ::bow::

RC
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Oddball on September 22, 2010, 07:49:02 AM
What is happening here? first Julio looses his cap and now Chuck looses his "cool"!!! the end is nigh!!!! lol
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: ZAIZAI on September 22, 2010, 09:26:25 AM
Man I can sympathize with Chuck in this strip!  Last spring I went in for my medical and discovered my eyesight had deteriorated to the point I could no longer pass the eye test without prescription glasses.  "Ok" says I, "go out and get prescription glasses."  I did, but when I did I discovered the price of prescription sunglasses was prohibitive!   ::eek::  No more cheapie MacArthur mirror shades for me, and I cannot afford $300 sunglasses!

I must say that the world does appear much brighter than before, but I lost my "coolness" several years ago when my hair began to turn grey and fall out.

Good one fellas!   ::bow::

RC

Hmmm...age has nothing to do with it, do you have daughters?!
 My prescription sunglasses cost me £45, ok they are not polaroid and I sent the guy back three times to "bake" them in order to darken the tint even further, sure they are not your typical aviation fashionistas but they do the job!

The only cool pilots are diver drivers...*runs and hides*
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: 4X-NTY on September 22, 2010, 10:31:40 AM
I just lost my cool a week ago, now there's no distance between me and and the normal people  :(
Atleast I still got my hat...
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Fabo on September 23, 2010, 12:59:05 PM
R/C I use contacts + regular cheapo sunglasses. Maybe worth a look at for ya?
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on September 23, 2010, 02:37:18 PM
Zaizai, yes I have one daughter and one son.  Might explain the thinning of the hair for sure!   ::)

Fabo, I don't like the idea of putting things in my eyes.  It just weirds me out thinking of it.   ::eek::

RC
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: cotejy on September 23, 2010, 05:25:42 PM
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Fabo, I don't like the idea of putting things in my eyes.  It just weirds me out thinking of it.

I was like that. For 15 years, I was wearing prescription glasses. Then one day, without reasons, I asked informations about contacts to my optometrist (is that what it's called in English?). She gave me a sample to use for 2 weeks. It was freaking wierd and I had to wake up 30 minutes to put them on at morning. But it was so rewarding. 16 hours of pure joy per day. No dirty glasses, no weight on my nose, no frame in my vision. Comming in after a day outside during winter without loosing the image form fog. Not being scared of the glasses to fall on the chain saw when working. And the best, you can see something when having sex without wearing ridiculus glasses.

Today, I can put them on in 2 seconds without a mirror and wouldn't go back to presciption glasses.
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Fabo on September 24, 2010, 12:05:30 AM
cotejy: My words, man, my words. Once you go... ehm, contacts... you never go back.
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Mike on September 24, 2010, 12:33:36 AM
got some myself....

the best ones for me are the one-day throwaways. don't need to carry all that crap with me (solution, case,....) and they're clean every day

thinking of getting the operation though

if I wasn't so scared of it I would have done it already....  :-\ :-[
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: madpilot44 on September 24, 2010, 05:07:07 AM
Mike, I did it. its weird staring into the light for a while, knowing that your other eye is being cut by a laser, but you can walk out of there being able to see.... and man! just being able to wake up and look at the darned clock without putting on glasses, priceless! (I was almost legally blind, +7.50 on one eye, +8 on the other, and now I'm back to flying, 20/20 eyesight on both eyes). And mine was LASEK, so no problem with flying at all.
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Oddball on September 24, 2010, 03:04:00 PM
Still wear both(glasses and contacts) still not sure about the lazer treatment heard stories about it reversing so dont know if they have improved the techniques.
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Mike on September 24, 2010, 03:37:17 PM
And mine was LASEK, so no problem with flying at all.

Hey Mad, are there procedures that ARE a problem with flying?

....never thought about the implications on my medical......
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: 4X-NTY on September 24, 2010, 07:31:30 PM
Mike, I saw a video of a girl with no hands flying a plane, unless you're in a condition that you can't even see the panel,you can fly.
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: madpilot44 on September 24, 2010, 08:07:16 PM
Well, Lasik was just recently approved by the FAA, I think. They feared that if you had a sudden cabin depressurization (which is a big problem in a helicopter lol), the way surgery's done you had a danger of damage to your eyeballs. LASEK's fine, and PRK's what the USAF uses on cadets who are going to pilot training after the Academy.
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Mike on September 24, 2010, 10:22:23 PM
Well, Lasik was just recently approved by the FAA, I think. They feared that if you had a sudden cabin depressurization (which is a big problem in a helicopter lol), the way surgery's done you had a danger of damage to your eyeballs. LASEK's fine, and PRK's what the USAF uses on cadets who are going to pilot training after the Academy.

from what I heard, PRK is the way to go....
heard it hurts more initially and your vision takes a few days to get good but they're not cutting the cornia and peel it back which seems to be the advantage

anybody heard aything bad about PRK?
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on September 24, 2010, 11:43:55 PM
Man, talk about thread drift!   ::whistle::

So how will Chuck get his Cool back without his sunglasses?

...Will he get them surgically attached so he no longer loses them?

RC
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Fabo on September 24, 2010, 11:59:54 PM
I will have to think about laser operations. I still have about a year or so until my eyes settle, so plenty of time. Waking up to see the world without correction is the dream, though.
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Oddball on September 25, 2010, 09:59:31 AM
I'm sure Julio has some super glue some where in the hanger R/C so Chuck wont loose his "cool".   along with Duct/Speed Tape,cable ties and WD40 its one of the most important things you can have.

(along with some vinegar  and the directions to the local hospital if you have put your hand on a wing you have just glued together  ::whistle:: ::whistle:: )
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: BrianGMFS on September 25, 2010, 02:14:14 PM
I've had glasses since I was 12. As I begin to push 44. I now need Bifocals. My arms are not long enough anymore....
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Fabo on September 25, 2010, 06:35:59 PM
My arms are not long enough anymore....

LOL, my dad says that all the time. He is 46. :)
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: madpilot44 on September 25, 2010, 10:17:50 PM
from what I heard, PRK is the way to go....
heard it hurts more initially and your vision takes a few days to get good but they're not cutting the cornia and peel it back which seems to be the advantage

anybody heard aything bad about PRK?

Well, PRK takes longer to recover, hurts more initially, and also has a lower percentage of people geting 20/20 (nothing serious, like 89% for PRK versus 92% for LASEK and 94% for LASIK, something like that)
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: Mike on September 26, 2010, 06:51:17 PM
what's the difference between LASIK and LASEK?
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: madpilot44 on September 27, 2010, 03:21:11 AM
I'm not a doctor, but this is what I understood from my pre-surgery research

http://www.the-lasik-directory.com/lasik_lasek_chart.html

(http://www.lasik.md/img/learnAboutLasik/cornea.gif)

Basically, the depth of the cut. LASIK cuts at least twice as deep, and cuts into the stroma, which is part of the cornea. LASEK only cuts the epithelium, which is a protective layer that grows back (LASEK is known as a flapless procedure because it doesn't cut into the cornea). PRK dissolves the epithelium with some kind of brush (epithelium grows back, but it can grow back weird, which is the reason for some of the problems with PRK, also, you don't have the protective flap for a while, which is another one of the reasons LASIK and LASEK are a bit safer)
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: ZAIZAI on September 28, 2010, 08:46:42 AM
I was told that laser surgery ruins your night vision capability... ???
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: madpilot44 on September 28, 2010, 03:16:02 PM
well, I know astigmatism gives you trouble when trying to adjust to different light conditions, but I didn't experience nor have I heard about a marked decrease in night visibility after surgery...
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: TheSoccerMom on September 28, 2010, 09:40:46 PM
The two best things a pilot can have regarding vision, are a super sharp AME and a super sharp opthalmologist.  You only have one set of eyes! 

It's been a LONG time since I looked into this surgery, so I'm sure things have improved, but at the time, there were many documented cases of the SCARS (healing from the surgical cuts) eventually causing MORE impaired vision.  This happened "down the road", after the initial improvement in vision.

That was enough for me -- I'm very happy to have a great eye doctor who makes sure my distant vision stays 20/15 (to see distant aircraft), and then I compensate for any slight lack in the cockpit (much less crucial) with cheap glasses.

My sister had the surgery done (also years ago), and after an initial GREAT improvement, her eyes did settle down to stay better than they were previously.  She was much blinder than I, so she is happy with the results.

Best to get advice from the experts....     :)

  8)
Title: Re: Chuck Lost his Cool
Post by: 4X-NTY on September 29, 2010, 12:55:05 PM
Funny story about those scars.
My dad had a to wear glasses,and about 15 years ago he went through a laser surgery,which improved his vision by bit,and left a scar on his left eye,since then,he had a better vision in his right eye,and he still needed to wear glasses.
About four years ago he went to get he went to get new glasses,because his vision got a bit worse,and when he was there,the optometrist asked him "Do you know you got the wrong number on your right eye?", my father didn't know,and then he understood that the bad vision on his right eye wasn't because of the scar,but because of some error the optometrist did.
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