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🏆 Callum Wright 23/24
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Jade Berrow 23/24
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I went for an eye test yesterday afternoon to get new glasses having been signed off by the eye surgeon who fixed my left eye.
The optometrist gave me a new prescription for glasses but told me to wait to get them made up until I had seen the local clinic regarding the cataract in my right eye. A referral to the local hospital (probably to the same surgeon) is currently taking up to a year, the local specialist clinic is averaging two weeks. I have been struggling to focus on the computer for a couple of months but put it down to needing new glasses and having to wait for the left eye to be signed off - obviously not correct.
The upshot is, if the clinic decides to fix the cataract, then four weeks later I can have another eye test and have new glasses and will be all set. If the clinic says the right eye can wait, then I can have new glasses based on yesterday’s test.
One of the side effects of the operations on the left eye is that everything appears whiter and brighter – apparently a common observation of people who have had only one cataract replaced, the natural lens has a slight tint!
When the cataract is removed in the right eye, they will put in a lens based on my current prescription so the vision in the right eye will be better than now.
The big downside will be that for four weeks + after the cataract operation I will not have either eye with vision up to the standard for driving. Everything should be sorted one way or the other by February. In that four-week + period I probably won't be able to read!
Has anybody got a white stick they can loan a poor old man?
The optometrist gave me a new prescription for glasses but told me to wait to get them made up until I had seen the local clinic regarding the cataract in my right eye. A referral to the local hospital (probably to the same surgeon) is currently taking up to a year, the local specialist clinic is averaging two weeks. I have been struggling to focus on the computer for a couple of months but put it down to needing new glasses and having to wait for the left eye to be signed off - obviously not correct.
The upshot is, if the clinic decides to fix the cataract, then four weeks later I can have another eye test and have new glasses and will be all set. If the clinic says the right eye can wait, then I can have new glasses based on yesterday’s test.
One of the side effects of the operations on the left eye is that everything appears whiter and brighter – apparently a common observation of people who have had only one cataract replaced, the natural lens has a slight tint!
When the cataract is removed in the right eye, they will put in a lens based on my current prescription so the vision in the right eye will be better than now.
The big downside will be that for four weeks + after the cataract operation I will not have either eye with vision up to the standard for driving. Everything should be sorted one way or the other by February. In that four-week + period I probably won't be able to read!
Has anybody got a white stick they can loan a poor old man?
