Wishing Tim a quick recovery.

[SWAT Strachan]

http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com/showthread.php?t=4618

I can sympathise as I just had my left eye lasered today :(. The first session of treatment (for diabetic retinopathy, Google it :mrgreen: ) was a doddle, the 15th onwards really suck. If it's any consolation, the blurriness and discomfort pass pretty quickly.

You'll be back to the lathe in no time :). Best of luck sir!

Edit: Does this mean we're paying the price for his lack of vision?... Tenuous I know, but at least it's SW related :cool:.

[ArkaiHalon]

I second the well wishing.

I had lasik a couple years ago, and it HURT, dont' care what anybody says. Well worth it, but painful.

Get well soon Tim


Swat, that was not funny. I'm not laughing, much. ok, it was darn funny

[Sohryu76]

Get Better Tim!

Lasik is awesome!

[Malaki Skywalker]

Get well soon Tim! Hope to see you back in the shop soon! :D

[Hasid Lafre]

Get well man.

I would love to get lasik but ha price and the fact that my right eye cant be fixed other than well resetting my eye to sit right. a icy snow ball when your 7 years old will do that.

[Tom Starkiller]

*Sends well wishings via the force*

Screw it, internets faster.

Have a speedy recovery Tim.

[Darth_DevilGuy]

get well quick tim

[Moordak]

Get well quick and be careful. You don't want to get an infection in your eye.

[Darth Leximus]

Well wishes from the only customer that gets free shipping....

Don't get jealous people it was by accident:wink:

[DDanDevious]

ouch lasers in the eye arent fun.

I dont really know, but I can imagine. Surgery in general isnt fun. Unless you are performing surgery on a clown... while dressed as a clown. Now thats funny.

oh umm, get well soon.

DDD!

[strengthofrage]

I would like to bring up the Family Guy episode where Luke is preforming Lasik Surgery on some woman and Obi-Wan tells him to use the force... he stabbed her through the eye socket with his light saber.

Tim, I hope your doctor had a better bed side manor, get well soon :)

[chaos]

Tim, I just want to wish you a speedy recovery.

Get well soon.

[DARTH KALEL]

Hope everything goes well for you Tim. thanks for letting everybody know, we will wait patiently for the masters return.

[SaberGirl]

It would have been easier had he had normal Lasiks.. With that, they cut around the outside of your lens and make a flap, after surgery they put it back down over your eyeball and you heal up fairly quickly. He had to have a PRK, which is where they basically scrub your cornea down before the surgery, so its pretty darn painful while your cornea (lens) regenerates.

He is definatly starting to feel better.. and he's very anxious to get back to work!
Thank you for all the well wishes, he appreciates them very much :) He'll be back soon!

[Stinky Bantha]

I hope you're starting to feel better, Tim. Here's to a quick recovery!

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Take your time getting better, Tim, the shop'll be waitintg for you when you heal up!

[Ghostbat]

Scrub... Cornea... OW!

[DaJoQuim]

I hope the best for you tim!!

[SWAT Strachan]

Scrub... Cornea... OW!Pffft, big girl's blouse :mrgreen:. Try having a 300mW green laser blasted at your retina a few thousand times, now that hurts http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif. Bear in mind that a 100mW laser can light a match...

[sekrogue1985]

I wish you a speedy recovery.

[37H4N]

Ouch! Hope you get better Tim!

I hope you took Jeff Foxworthy's advice and didn't try to save a bundle on your lasik. :lol:

[TD-2272]

Get well Tim.

[acerocket]

I'll add my get well wishes too.

The eyes are a very delicate part of the body and there's no 'do overs' with them. I can't count the number of times I have been to the emergency room for foreign object in the eye reports (comes with the territory of working in a steel shop for 23 years). The worst I ever had was a silver of steel straight into the center of the eye. Because it fell between the eyelids, I didn't know it was there for a few days. Eventually had to go to the doctor, but by then the damage was done. They couldn't pull it out and it had actually rusted itself in the eye. The had to resort to a dremel tool like thing to actually grind down the cornea to remove as much of the sliver as possible. Quite a trippy feeling watching your eye deform under the sanding wheel. I still have problems with that eye when in bright lights because of it.

[Dark Helmet]

Get well soon!!! I plan on having similar surgery some day, except I want to shoot lasers FROM my eyes^^

[Hasid Lafre]

I take it you never heard of the 660 shuffle.

660 volts from a carnival bumpercar ride will deffinatly put you in some pain.

Never again will I be cought on a bumpercar ride ever again.


Pffft, big girl's blouse :mrgreen:. Try having a 300mW green laser blasted at your retina a few thousand times, now that hurts http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif. Bear in mind that a 100mW laser can light a match...

[Er Dan Gill]

http://www.aprilflowers.com.au/images/bhgwe.jpg

[savyas]

wifrey is considering PRK, so I'd love to hear Tim's final opinion of it.

'Til your all healed, we can wait for any custom work ;) Get well soon.

[TorLinWaDur]

Tim - get better soon :) mtfbwu

[fawnheart2000]

Get well Master Sabersmith.
And of course may the force be with you.

[Darth Zecks]

Get well soon Tim. Don't worry about anything on this side, we'll still be here when you get back. The recovery is always the worst part. Who knows, maybe by some freak accident were the laser shaped your eyes just the right way and somehow your eyes absorbed the radiation you'll end up with x-ray vision or something. One can hope right.:-D

[jash1]

Get well soon Tim, may the force be with you during your recovery.
/bow

[Drichar Deis]

Ok really beginning to cringe now, lasers......eyes.....scrubbing.....!

Hope you get well soon.

[Kant Lavar]

I was wondering what was taking so long on getting my parts out to me... and now I know.

And knowing is half the battle!
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5257/gijoekk3.jpg

Get well soon, Tim! (Yo Joe!)

[Strydur]

Thanks guys!!

Today I can finally focus pretty good on my monitor. It can blur in and out a tad sometimes but every day seems to be getting better so I should be back to normal by the end of the week. Most people don't need to get the PRK version of lasiks and can see fine the following day but I had some issues that made it so it would be less risky to do the PRK which as I have found out takes about a week before I can see decent. Sorry for any orders that have gotten delayed by this and I will get them all out ASAP.

[Barmic Rin]

Glad you're okay dude!

http://www.entopia2002.com/screenshots/dvd/familyGuy_vol_2_starWarsDentist.jpg

[Drichar Deis]

Good to hear your on the road to recovery Tim, may the Swarts be with you, Doh I mean the force!

[ti-el_terall]

Im glad to hear things are going good Tim! The worst thing about surgery is the recovery, I was on that road for 10 month's. Hope all goes well, and for us waiting, it's well worth it once we see the finished results!

[DDanDevious]

eye surgery or no, my order still got here pretty darn quick. Thats awesomeness! The mark of a pro, fo sho. Thank you sir and glad you can see again!

DDD!

[Lord Maul]

Glad your eyesight is improving Tim! You must be missing working on all of those orders...right...lol

[Hasid Lafre]

good luck tim. cant wait to make my order which I hope is tonight.

[Darth_DevilGuy]

glad to hear your doing well, don't push yourself till you're absolutely sure of your eyes though, damaging them now would be counterproductive I think.

[virus692]

Get Well Soon Tim. And remember just kuzz you don't need glasses to focus doesn't mean you don't have to wear SAFETY GLASSES in the shop.

And As We Say in Maine "Shop Safety is wicked good"

[Onli-Won Kanomi]

There's something ironic about a custom sabersmith 'going under the blade' of a real-life [surgical] 'lightsaber' eh? But glad to hear that it is working out ok for you; Get Well Soonest!

[Chen]

Oh my. Get well Soon Tim.

[Sethski]

Glad to hear you're on the mend.

[luis rojas]

My wife done the same thing in both eyes and when the medication effect is gone the pain was unbearable. Please Tim take a good rest because you need to form a scar in your eye after the surgery.....
I told my wife that I could do the same thing and chrage her nothing but She didn't let me use my lightsaber.