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rcctiger, thank you for your reply and for looking into who did your SpaceOar. I appreciate your help. Take care.

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Dr. Brendon McMenomy at Mayo Rochester performed my Space Oar procedure. A+++

I asked him about halfway through the procedure if he ever thought about doing a less stressful job like being an optometrist. He just laughed, but when I completed my treatment I sent him a thank you card and told him God put him exactly where he needed to be.

For me, I was the most apprehensive about insertion of the Space Oar and Dr. McMenomy was just awesome.

Good luck!

The Space/Oar removes the need to do a balloon prior to each treatment. I had my done at UFPTI at same time they did markers.

I could feel the Space/Oar but was no pain and slowly the feeling went away after about a month after treatments. I had mine done transpernial and was not an issue at all. I was given a mild sedative and laughing gas. The laughing gas was self administered and you used it as needed. At first my apprehension was high but then realized was not going to be a big deal and stop using it.