1.   Although this radical type surgery can take up to six hours, Lockwood prefers it over smaller, more frequent tucks.

2.   A second surgery can take twice as long because of the difficulties of dealing with scar tissue buildup and other complications.

3.   But before the surgery can take place, Crichton tries to return to Scorpius.

4.   But I know what a knee surgery takes out of you.

5.   Jim Schwiegerling, an ophthalmologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, says customized surgery could take patients to the theoretical limits of human vision.

6.   That surgery took six hours.

7.   The center allowed her to have an aromatherapy diffuser in the pre-operative waiting room and to play subliminal suggestion tapes while the surgery was taking place.

8.   The Chazov center is most likely to be where the surgery will take place.

9.   The surgery could take place before the end of the week.

10.   The surgery took less than an hour and a half, Scharlene Knudson said, still beaming weeks later.