Laser Eye Surgery

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She was in the later stages of diabetic retinopathy, a serious condition caused when diabetes damages the light-sensitive part of the eye called the retina.

Left untreated, patients with diabetic retinopathy can go blind.

ADVERTISEMENT So Reichenberger felt she had a choice: slowly go blind or try a new, barely tested procedure that is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

She chose the procedure, she says, because it sounded better than the alternative.

Today, just 11 days later, she's glad she did.

"I feel good now.

There were no side effects to it, except the eye got red, but that cleared up in t...

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