perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I just look at the notion of cutting into a healthy eye and it just doesn't seem sensible.

Additionally, while the procedure is extraordinarily safe (i.e., as far as I know, no reports of blindness as a result of the procedure), there *is* data collected by an opthalmologist at UC San Francisco (I think) to indicate that complications (optical abberations) are way more common than is reported, because the traditional tests don't have a way to categorize the complaints, which are usually things like permanent halos around lights or bright objects, "starlight" effects, etc. The guy wrote a journal article sometime back about it, and developed a means of charting that data. Unfortunately, I don't have any citation to the article any more.

So... for me, I'm much happier staying with the glasses... finally got sick of taking my glasses off to read and found some progressive bifocals that actually work for me, which I guess means I'm admitting being old