Something EXTREME

Something extreme I feel like doing...

LASIK
Mom has been convincing me to do Lasik surgery yet I always turn her down. Recently, I have been thinking, maybe I should get it done when I am still young. I am always looking forward to a life without wearing glasses, and without the hassle of putting on contacts and removing them. Did a google search on the operation. Apparently, the operation is performed with the patient awake and mobile. There are three main steps - flap creation, cornea remodelling and flap reposition.

Read this! (From wikipedia) - BLOODY SCARY

A corneal suction ring is applied to the eye, holding the eye in place. This step in the procedure can sometimes cause small blood vessels to burst, resulting in bleeding or subconjunctival hemorrhage into the sclera of the eye, a harmless side effect that resolves within several weeks. Increased suction typically causes a transient dimming of vision in the treated eye. Once the eye is immobilised, the flap is created. This process is achieved with a mechanical microkeratome using a metal blade, or a femtosecond laser microkeratome that creates a series of tiny closely arranged bubbles within the cornea. A hinge is left at one end of this flap. The flap is folded back, revealing the stroma, the middle section of the cornea. The process of lifting and folding back the flap can be uncomfortable.

The second step of the procedure is to use an excimer laser (193 nm) to remodel the corneal stroma. The laser vaporizes tissue in a finely controlled manner without damaging adjacent stroma. No burning with heat or actual cutting is required to ablate the tissue. The layers of tissue removed are tens of micrometers thick. Performing the laser ablation in the deeper corneal stroma typically provides for more rapid visual recovery and less pain, than the earlier technique photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). During the second step, the patient's vision will become very blurry once the flap is lifted. He/she will be able to see only white light surrounding the orange light of the laser. This can be disorienting.

After the laser has reshaped the stromal layer, the LASIK flap is carefully repositioned over the treatment area by the surgeon and checked for the presence of air bubbles, debris, and proper fit on the eye. The flap remains in position by natural adhesion until healing is completed.

Asian Blepharoplasty
My aunties have been convincing me for an Asian Blepharoplasty for the past don't know how many years and my answer is always no, no and no. Recently, I have been a bit moved by what people said. Maybe I should really do it?

Argh! Everything involve in Bleeding!?! (Taken from ienhance)

Blepharoplasty is performed with very fine electrocauterization instruments to control bleeding. In lower eyelid blepharoplasty, the doctor makes tiny incisions under the eye, removes excess skin and fatty tissue, and closes the incisions with tiny sutures to reduce scarring. Another common method, the transconjuctival approach, involves making an incision from inside the eye pocket in order to remove fat. The benefit of this method is that there is no scarring on the outside of the skin, but success depends on the contraction of the excess skin as a result from internal tightening.

In upper eyelid surgery, the incisions are made in the eyelid itself, where it would be found naturally. Excess tissue is removed, a natural skin fold is created, and the incisions are carefully closed with fine sutures. Any scars are hidden by the crease created during the procedure.

So SCARY!!!

This is just a short conversation between KH and me...

KwangHong-This week might fly to brisbane... says:
actually u no need to mind wat we all talking
KwangHong-This week might fly to brisbane... says:
plastic surgery not necessary la
' 馨儀 ~Cinderella~ ': What define you is how you arise after failing... says:
nobody is perfect
KwangHong-This week might fly to brisbane... says:
so be confident to urself
KwangHong-This week might fly to brisbane... says:
personality everything
KwangHong-This week might fly to brisbane... says:
i think u better than a lot of ppl
KwangHong-This week might fly to brisbane... says:
jz sometime u a bit too noisy
KwangHong-This week might fly to brisbane... says:
keep talking...
' 馨儀 ~Cinderella~ ': What define you is how you arise after failing... says:
paiseh paiseh
' 馨儀 ~Cinderella~ ': What define you is how you arise after failing... says:
talk too much

Haha... I have been talking too much.
Confidence confidence confidence... I lack of confidence?
I think so.