Possible ocular annoyance.
Aug. 24th, 2013 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasJust had my first eye exam in a bunch of years. We HAVE vision insurance through Lis's work, so we SHOULD be getting eye exams and new glasses regularly, but we've forgotten. My left eye -- which is my dominant eye -- is basically unchanged; the optometrist is making a couple tiny tweaks to the prescription, but it's mostly the same. The right eye has changed a bit more; that's expected.
The possible annoyance is that he saw some striations on my cornea, which might be nothing, but might turn out to be something significant down the road. Certainly, there won't be a problem for years, but there's a chance that they could do something bad five or ten years down the line. Not worth worrying about, but the optometrist's office is in the Costco, and we only have a ten-dollar co-pay, so he suggested that, as long as I'm going to be there shopping anyway, stop in every couple months, just to keep an eye on it. No pun intended.
It's in my right eye, which is my non-dominant eye anyway. And I've already got lousy depth perception. If I actually lost my right eye (which isn't actually a plausible outcome of anything that this could be -- I'm just sayin'), I'd lose right-side peripheral vision, which would kind of suck, but not actually be that serious. So when the worst-case scenario, which is actually not even a scenario worth considering, isn't particularly worrisome, I don't really worry.
The possible annoyance is that he saw some striations on my cornea, which might be nothing, but might turn out to be something significant down the road. Certainly, there won't be a problem for years, but there's a chance that they could do something bad five or ten years down the line. Not worth worrying about, but the optometrist's office is in the Costco, and we only have a ten-dollar co-pay, so he suggested that, as long as I'm going to be there shopping anyway, stop in every couple months, just to keep an eye on it. No pun intended.
It's in my right eye, which is my non-dominant eye anyway. And I've already got lousy depth perception. If I actually lost my right eye (which isn't actually a plausible outcome of anything that this could be -- I'm just sayin'), I'd lose right-side peripheral vision, which would kind of suck, but not actually be that serious. So when the worst-case scenario, which is actually not even a scenario worth considering, isn't particularly worrisome, I don't really worry.
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Date: 2013-08-25 03:41 am (UTC)It's really not bad at all.
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Date: 2013-08-26 12:53 am (UTC)I'd get a second opinion and would not mention this one. You don't want to pre-load the mind with the info from the first one.
If you are dealing with something that may, potentially, become serious well down the road, it is worth the extra expense, insurance or not. Blindness, partial or whole, one eye or both, is a life-changing event. It isn't gall-stones or some other, minor but curable problem.
And when one is dealing with medic-in-the-box types, you have to ask yourself, if this individual is qualified to be a heart surgeon, why is he/she working in ABC Roadside Stop-n-Go's first aid station?
People who get paid on a commission basis, are always looking to increase sales in order to increase take-home pay. This is why I don't get my eye exam from Walmart or LensCrafters, or the such. I go to an existing, well established, reputable eye doctor. One that I can check on and check out, before I commit.
Just a thought...