Looking for some recommended spots to potentially go on holiday over Xmas period. Somewhere between George and Port Alfred. For affordability reason will likely use AirBnB.
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Yup, SMILE is the newest method of laser eye surgery. Can be done on much thinner Corneas that don’t qualify for Lasik or PRK (as I did not). It’s a German technology/technique, and it uses a very tiny laser (sub-millimeter). Very cool tech, I have 120% vision now and it is expected to last 10 years before I need to get reading glasses for close up. I will never be as poorly sighted as I was before!
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Dr Kristin Pretorius Optometrists, in Lyttelton. They are in the Lyttelton Shopping centre on the corner of Botha and Cantonments.
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Yes? Hello? Someone say Botha?
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Good morning Friday!
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How much does that cost, if you don’t mind me asking?
I had lasik surgery about 20 years ago but now I’m wearing glasses again.
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Same, hello!
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They could’ve figured out a better acronym, it sounds like a dental thing! 
That’s really awesome, thanks for educating us!
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Morning all everyone.
Does everyone have glasses here?
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Yeah, I think it’s called astigmatism, basically rugby ball-shaped eyeballs.
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I also have astigmatism. I wonder how common it is.
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Mine is old age, no surgery can fix that 
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Sounds very ra ra
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I think it’s more common than we realise.
Also morning people of the palace. . . .
Funny story: when Afrikaans people see my surname, they start speaking Afrikaans to me. I then dutifully reply to them in Afrikaans (which is my mother tongue) only to find them swap back to English. I soon realised that my long term under exposure to Afrikaans ( I use it once a week when I phone my dad) has led to me having a ludicrously strong rooinek accent when I speak Afrikaans.
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It’s because you live in the last bastion of the English.
Moving from Pta where my English was considered pretty-good-for-an-Afrikaans-kid to Pmb where I was positively uncultured, then to Witbank where they practically want me to lead the debate team because I actually understand tenses. My accent has deteriorated a bit here as well, but luckily regular gaming sessions with English friends help keep me in check.
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Yup. Astigmatism over here as well. Been wearing specs for 15 odd years now. Also investigating some sort of eye surgery, but seems like astigmatism isn’t fixable by laser eye surgery.
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Sjoe eina, just got the quote, just over 11k, but then again, they will have blue light filters and anti-reflection lenses. The sunglasses will have to wait a few months, these will wipe out my savings.
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It’s cheaper to fly up to Lyttelton! 0.o
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Yeah it’s the coating that make mine cost a fortune too. Just go for the anti-reflection or anti-glare.
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