An aging community we are

[John Esak]

Going OT

Okay, since we *are* drifting ... Just a quickee since you mention Laser
surgery.  Everyone  is so enamored of Laxix (sp?) surgery these days... And
in the majority of cases it goes well... And is a pretty good thing....
But, my very top of the mark eye surgeons both say it is about the worst
thing you can do to your eyes.  So really think about it before you leap
just because it's getting cheaper.  Two things. It weakens your cornea...
Bad... If you have it done when you are say 30, by the time you are 50 to 60
it will have degraded your vision irreparably.  They often neglect to fill
you in on these two facts.  Also, in many, many cases ( high percentage like
35%) it has to be re-done after a couple years!  

With all the trouble I'v ehad with my eyes, I would caution anyone against
laser surgery of the LASIX variety.  Laser surgery to correct retinal
problems is a fantastic thing, however, without any downside, considering
you simply lose the vision if you don't get it done when needed. Diabetes,
retinal detach, etc.  But, the Lasix cornea peel is just a bad diea.  I'm
sorry to offend or bother anyone who has had this done... That is not my
intention.  If you have, just keep getting your eyes checked often and don't
put any garbage eye lubricants in like Visene, etc.  Not good after Lasix.
If you had good luck with it, as I originally said many do, then more power
to you and I hope it lasts as long as it possibly can. 

John

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: RE: An aging community we are
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:11 PM
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> > Subject: Re: An aging community we are
> > 
> > Mike Schwartz wrote:
> > [...]
> > >      I learned early on how scary it is having several big, strong
> > > millwrights threaten you with severe bodily harm if they 
> didn't get
> their
> > > paychecks on time.
> > [...]
> > 
> > You have the wrong clients.  :-)
> > 
> > Laura has had more than one (non-filePro-related) client call Friday
> morning
> > that their "it's been slowly dieing for months, but we 
> didn't do anything
> > about it" payroll computer finally died.  They have no 
> problem paying the
> > "emergency, drop everything else and come over right now and fix it"
> rates.
> >   It seems that not being able to run payroll was a good 
> motivator.  There
> > have also been several clients who paid the "pick it up 
> Friday evening and
> > get it back to us before we open Monday morning" rate for 
> their systems.
> > 
> 
> Had a large dental office client, hardware only, call me on Thursday
> afternoon that their serve was acting funny.  What was funny, 
> the admin
> tried to log in and the keyboard and mouse wouldn't work.
> 
> Drove over with a new keyboard and mouse - 5 minutes from my 
> house.  The
> keyboard and mouse had been pulled out, don’t ask, and then 
> plugged back in
> without turning off the server.  The connections went.  I 
> told them to call
> the people they had a hardware maintenance contract with to 
> come out and
> repair/replace the server.   They advised me that then next 
> day's schedule
> for 5 dentists were on the computer and they needed it up and running.
> 
> I called a friend of mine who builds custom servers and asked 
> if he had
> enough parts to build me a server over nigh and the regen it. 
>  He had parts
> and was able to delay delivering a server to one of his 
> clients by a few
> days.
> 
> Pulled the server out at 5PM and drove to Brooklyn about an 
> hours drive.  We
> put together a new machine with the hard drives from the old 
> server and
> prayed.  This was a Windows server which we were bringing up 
> in a totally
> different box.  We were not  sure if the machine would boot 
> with many wrong
> drivers.  We got it up, deleted the old drivers and installed 
> new ones.  I
> delivered the box back the next morning at 7AM. Installed it 
> had them up and
> running by 8AM when the office opened.
> 
> Total bill, $5,000.  The new server $1,500.00, that was cheap 
> as this was 10
> years ago. The balance was my fee for this "emergency".  They 
> paid the bill
> in a very timely manner.  The sad part, the primary partner had laser
> surgery on his eyes and lost much of his sight.  The office 
> closed after
> that.
> 
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
> rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
>   
> 
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