Hello,
I had LASEK surgery at your practice in both eyes in February 2009. My vision has been excellent for 10+ years, but recently my vision has worsened to the point of concern. Especially in my left eye, my vision is now fuzzy enough that I would not be comfortable driving a car with only that eye open. My right eye is not as bad, but I don’t think that eye is 20/20 anymore either.
I now live in the Netherlands, near Amsterdam. What do you advise me to do as a next step?
Best regards,
Matthew
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Dear Matthew,
Weirdly enough, next week I will be in Amsterdam giving a lecture at the ESCRS Congress, where the most prestigious refractive surgeons in Europe gather to share information!
My cost for a second opinion is $500 if you were to come to NYC or lived in NYC, and then you would have to spend thousands flying here, too
So Lady Luck is really smiling on you, as we can do the following, but please do this EXACTLY or it won’t work out:
- reply to ALL with your last exam attached as a PDF and I will review it
- call my office # below and ask Britney to create a WhatsApp group for you with me in it (as well as my 2 other MDs)
- schedule with me via that group a date and time you’ll meet me at the convention center so I can examine you myself, there are of course all the latest equipment there on display to use!
- the cost to attend is something like $1000, but I’m 100% sure we can meet outside and I can get a colleague to let us "borrow" his badge for an hour to help you with this humanitarian effort
- we will also schedule going out to dinner together that night, and you’ll spend $500 on that dinner, but at least you’ll eat and drink $250 worth, and it will be more fun than sitting in my office;)
- i will render my opinion and share it with you at dinner
- we will both take pictures at dinner and post and tag each other, as this whole sequence of events is a bit interesting and also funny:)
Looking forward to the most memorable Second Opinion of my career, at least in terms of it’s format!
Yours,
