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EctopicFetus said:
Though unlike in other threads.. I would recommend you divide your future posts in this thread to allow for +pad+ing
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BTW... what a great game yesterday.. PHX and Dallas.. Should be a solid series..
 
am pad here.. I just consolidated 206K at 2.875%... weird..
 
graduate leverage..... i think they work for US Bank.. I dont know how but they are gonna save the Fetus 21K...
 
EctopicFetus said:
graduate leverage..... i think they work for US Bank.. I dont know how but they are gonna save the Fetus 21K...
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Sounds awesome. I consolidated my current loans at the going rate of whatever it is. My bank gives a reducation in interest rate for every year or so of on-time payments, so hopefully that will help over the years.
 
So check this out.. first they give me back my 6 months of grace which you lose with consolidation, then they also do the interest reduction.. so after 36 months.. ill be paying 1.875%...

This is a reconsolidation as I consolidated last yr and the subsidized stuff stays subsidized.. I cant see a down side..

Just a thought if you are interested..
 
ohh... my best bud is a optometrist.. and funny enough when i did ophtho i asked about it.. they said not to.. i might go to those wear at night contact things.. time and $$$ will tell!
 
EctopicFetus said:
ohh... my best bud is a optometrist.. and funny enough when i did ophtho i asked about it.. they said not to.. i might go to those wear at night contact things.. time and $$$ will tell!
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Well, I waited until enough people I knew had had lasik and had good results. I'm very queasy about eye stuff & the thought of lasik made me very nervous.

Well, I had a just-getting-ready-to-graduate Ophtho resident do it. He's done a ton of lasik, including on about 50 people I know.

All I can say is that one say post-sx I have better vision (20/15) than I ever had in 27 years of glasses and contacts. Turns out I had a really funky astigmatism that couldn't be fully corrected with glasses.
 
Hehehe...I would NEVER let a resident touch me! I waited for the guy here at Duke that has done it 12K times and is in the top 6 of all LASIK people in the US, and also until they had the Allegretto laser and it was computer guided. I talked with a BUNCH of ophtho residents and asked the pointed question - "Why haven't YOU done it yet?", with an answer of "We have!" (3 residents). I'm about 4 months post now, after 22 years of spectacles, and could NOT be happier.
 
Apollyon said:
Hehehe...I would NEVER let a resident touch me! I waited for the guy here at Duke that has done it 12K times and is in the top 6 of all LASIK people in the US, and also until they had the Allegretto laser and it was computer guided. I talked with a BUNCH of ophtho residents and asked the pointed question - "Why haven't YOU done it yet?", with an answer of "We have!" (3 residents). I'm about 4 months post now, after 22 years of spectacles, and could NOT be happier.
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Well, I waited until he *almost* wasn't a resident anymore. 😉 I could have had it done by this same guy a couple of years ago for less $$, but I, like you, wanted a ton of these under his belt before he could touch my eyes. He has made a point of doing as many lasik procedures as he possibly could while in residency (I'm assuming at least partly b/c then he'll be able to promote good #s when he's just out in his own practice).

Our ophtho residents, including the one who worked on me, have had lasik, too.
 
Is it bad when you hear a country rendition of "Gin and Juice" and immediately start thinking of ways to rewrite the lyrics to make it into a parady about EM? :meanie:
 
By the way, I've decided to go for my paramedic certification once I get up to Michigan next year.
 
DropkickMurphy said:
By the way, I've decided to go for my paramedic certification once I get up to Michigan next year.
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Congrats! I am sure you will love it!
 
DrMom said:
Well, I waited until enough people I knew had had lasik and had good results. I'm very queasy about eye stuff & the thought of lasik made me very nervous.

Well, I had a just-getting-ready-to-graduate Ophtho resident do it. He's done a ton of lasik, including on about 50 people I know.

All I can say is that one say post-sx I have better vision (20/15) than I ever had in 27 years of glasses and contacts. Turns out I had a really funky astigmatism that couldn't be fully corrected with glasses.
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Well FYI the ophtho guys told me that based on my vision (which really isnt too bad.. 20/40 with astigmatism that it wouldnt really improve my vision that much and then of course as we get older it would be time for reading glasses anyhow. Ill be honest... im jealous of dr mom.. Im ready to be done with glasses.... and ive only had to wear them the last 5 yrs.
 
maybe ill ask some folks in tucson what they think and get an "official" exam.
 
EctopicFetus said:
Well FYI the ophtho guys told me that based on my vision (which really isnt too bad.. 20/40 with astigmatism that it wouldnt really improve my vision that much and then of course as we get older it would be time for reading glasses anyhow. Ill be honest... im jealous of dr mom.. Im ready to be done with glasses.... and ive only had to wear them the last 5 yrs.
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Ah. I had some funky irregular astigmatism (that couldn't be fully corrected with glasses) with a mild Rx otherwise. I also lucked out with only having one eye corrected.

Sorry that you're not in the same category. Maybe that'll change over time.
 
EctopicFetus said:
maybe ill ask some folks in tucson what they think and get an "official" exam.
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Not a bad idea cause it may give you some completely new info. I didn't know that my astigmatism wasn't "routine" until they mapped it out for the lasik eval. Also, nobody else had determined that my left eye vision was only unclear because that eye was compensating for my funky right eye.

The full exam by the ophthalmologist was *far* more comprehensive than any exam I've had by an optometrist. Of course, part of that was simply b/c I wanted the lasik eval.
 
emtp6811 said:
Congrats! I am sure you will love it!
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I know I will.....it will mean I will have almost more letters after my name than in it :meanie:

As of the time I graduate from medic school (and complete the related exams) it will be something along the lines of:
AS, RRT-NPS, NREMT-P, FP-C, RCS, CPFT
 
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