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Circumcision
New Yorker:
I'm all for straight answers. Leave it alone. Like the expression says, "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
Plus I've read that those who have had a foreskin their whole lives, then got circumcised, noticed a significant difference in both sensitivity and pleasure (for the worse) during sex in the absence of the foreskin.
takebackourtemple:
My lasik cost about $4000. I could have done it cheaper, but eye sight is a gift that hashem gives us and I had to think real hard before making the decision. In this procedure, your cornea which is already paper thin is cut even thinner. Judiasm may consider this procedure to be defacing ones body in most cases, but I was in a situation were glasses didn't work(true I could focus on a letter on a wall, but couldn't really see with them) and I kept getting eye infections with my contacts(which did work). The lasik did work like a charm and I was able to see 20-15 the next morning when I came in for my followup, but I don't know what problems I might have down the line as a result of it. Suprisingly it took about a year to get used to not having my contacts after the surgury. I was suddenly alergic to pollen in the air, which my contacts and sometimes glasses had prevented from touching my cornea. I remember having to order colored contacts because I couldn't get regular ones in a 0.0 prescription. The colored ones were never as comfortable as the regular ones.
This might appear a little irrelevant to the JTF forum and this thread, but the jewish question becomes whether it is defacing the human body to have corrective surgury.
Lisa:
Takebackourtemple, if the surgery improves the body's functionality, like your vision, how is that a bad thing? Also repeated eye infections are not good. Wouldn't the antibiotic/anti-inflammatory medicines eventually stop working?
Lisa:
Yacov, regarding Lasik and Epi Lasik, being young is a good thing. All that's necessary is for your eye prescription to be stable for a few years. The doctors will do all kinds of tests to determine if you are good candidate for the surgery. They will test for the shape of your cornea, and its thickness, among other things. Also if you are a diabetic, or have glaucoma, you would not be a candidate for the procedure.
In my case, I was nearsighted. And now my vision is 20/15. But when I get older I will need reading glasses, as it will be more difficult to see things very close to me. It happens with everyone. Some doctors encourage patients to leave one eye a little less corrected to compensate for this. But I decided against it. As I see it, if I'm going to have this surgery, I want my vision to be perfect. And now that I no longer wear contacts, my eyes are no longer dry.
genteelgentile:
Fruit to doctor, with a British accent: "A little off the top, guv'ner!"
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