Comments on: The eye test http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:05:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2777 Cocktails Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:14:13 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2777 I assume it's not easily fixed then, otherwise 70-year olds would all have perfect vision. Yours and Mrs Mondo's tales are worrying but well-worth hearing. We get told in disability/accessibility training regularly that a very high percentage of the population have some kind of visual impairment (i.e. one that cannot be corrected by just wearing a single pair of glassses) and well, this just brings it home. Thanks for sharing. I assume it’s not easily fixed then, otherwise 70-year olds would all have perfect vision.

Yours and Mrs Mondo’s tales are worrying but well-worth hearing. We get told in disability/accessibility training regularly that a very high percentage of the population have some kind of visual impairment (i.e. one that cannot be corrected by just wearing a single pair of glassses) and well, this just brings it home. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Piley http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2776 Piley Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:54:33 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2776 Thanks... I guess what makes this hard for me is I had fab eyes for 40 years... all taken for granted, then WHAM! my left eye ages approx 30 years in a few minutes. My actual eye was (and still is) very good and very strong... it's just the lens that's rubbish. It was described to me like this... say you bought a million pound camera, and then bought the lens from the pound shop... the pictures are still gonna be crap... I'm told that by the time i'm 65/70, my good eye is likely to be similar to my bad eye, which is little consolation really! Thanks… I guess what makes this hard for me is I had fab eyes for 40 years… all taken for granted, then WHAM! my left eye ages approx 30 years in a few minutes. My actual eye was (and still is) very good and very strong… it’s just the lens that’s rubbish. It was described to me like this… say you bought a million pound camera, and then bought the lens from the pound shop… the pictures are still gonna be crap…

I’m told that by the time i’m 65/70, my good eye is likely to be similar to my bad eye, which is little consolation really!

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2774 Cocktails Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:24 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2774 Oh boy, Piley, tales like that make me feel very bad about wingeing about my eye sight and trips to the optician. At least glasses fix the problem! I really don't know what so say - I know how absoutely frustrating it is when my eyesight suddenly deteriorates, I can't see in the distance so well (or close-up for that matter!) and my prescription needs changing, but cannot possibly imagine what it would be like to have that constantly being a problem AND at different distances. I guess a consoling thought (and probably for all the people commenting on this) is that having bad eyesight is much better than having hearing problems. I honestly think I'd be suicidal if I had a life without music. Oh boy, Piley, tales like that make me feel very bad about wingeing about my eye sight and trips to the optician. At least glasses fix the problem! I really don’t know what so say – I know how absoutely frustrating it is when my eyesight suddenly deteriorates, I can’t see in the distance so well (or close-up for that matter!) and my prescription needs changing, but cannot possibly imagine what it would be like to have that constantly being a problem AND at different distances.

I guess a consoling thought (and probably for all the people commenting on this) is that having bad eyesight is much better than having hearing problems. I honestly think I’d be suicidal if I had a life without music.

]]> By: Piley http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2772 Piley Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:54:20 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2772 a long story and all a bit of an ongoing living nightmare really... i've had a cataract in one eye for some time, in 2008 I was advised by the optician (wrongly as it turned out) to have it done. My sight is now shit in that eye, and a million times worse than before i had it done. I guess you know that what you get when you have the lens replaced is a 'fixed' lens... the zoom type bit don't work anymore. So my left eye is set at a permanent focus... at least it should have been, its not focused on ANY level, and everything is blurred to varying degrees. The least out is long distance which is 0.5 'out' compared to my good eye. Middle vision is 1.50 out compared to my other eye, and close up is the worst, I can't see anything at all now and it's out by 2.75... I now have two eyes with completely different focus, which is, frankly, a misery. I don't get on well with varifocals, so am continually 'swapping' glasses. I drop a 'middle' vision contact in on my bad eye and that's the best i can do, so long vision is blurred as is close vision... i have to put glasses on top of the contact to read or drive. It's very disorientating, I can almost get away without glasses for long vision (although it will give me a headache in the end), but of course, when you are walking about, things that are 'long' eventually get nearer!! So the nearer things get the more blurred they get... wish you hadn't asked??!! P a long story and all a bit of an ongoing living nightmare really…

i’ve had a cataract in one eye for some time, in 2008 I was advised by the optician (wrongly as it turned out) to have it done. My sight is now shit in that eye, and a million times worse than before i had it done.

I guess you know that what you get when you have the lens replaced is a ‘fixed’ lens… the zoom type bit don’t work anymore. So my left eye is set at a permanent focus… at least it should have been, its not focused on ANY level, and everything is blurred to varying degrees. The least out is long distance which is 0.5 ‘out’ compared to my good eye. Middle vision is 1.50 out compared to my other eye, and close up is the worst, I can’t see anything at all now and it’s out by 2.75… I now have two eyes with completely different focus, which is, frankly, a misery. I don’t get on well with varifocals, so am continually ’swapping’ glasses. I drop a ‘middle’ vision contact in on my bad eye and that’s the best i can do, so long vision is blurred as is close vision… i have to put glasses on top of the contact to read or drive.

It’s very disorientating, I can almost get away without glasses for long vision (although it will give me a headache in the end), but of course, when you are walking about, things that are ‘long’ eventually get nearer!! So the nearer things get the more blurred they get…

wish you hadn’t asked??!!

P

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2768 Cocktails Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:01:10 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2768 Glad you enjoyed the post Keith - and even better that I have another specs wearing reader. Goggle wearers of the world unite! Glad you enjoyed the post Keith – and even better that I have another specs wearing reader. Goggle wearers of the world unite!

]]> By: Keith http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 Keith Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:54:45 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2767 Great post. You definitely are reminding me of how much I hate going to the doctor. It drives me crazy to get eye exams. I've worn glasses since I was a kid. Great post. You definitely are reminding me of how much I hate going to the doctor. It drives me crazy to get eye exams. I’ve worn glasses since I was a kid.

]]> By: ishouldbeworking http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2765 ishouldbeworking Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:24:40 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2765 Nah, you're right - I've never been normal. But normality's for squares, and me, I'm a hepcat, Daddyo. I don't even NEED these glasses! *bodyswerves 'Higsons' question* Nah, you’re right – I’ve never been normal. But normality’s for squares, and me, I’m a hepcat, Daddyo. I don’t even NEED these glasses!

*bodyswerves ‘Higsons’ question*

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2764 Cocktails Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:59:29 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2764 No, my eyesight isn't that bad either Dave, I just don't drive. Which has both positives and negatives... That sounds very ominous Piley. Ruined in a few short seconds? Is it ok? Can you see with that eye? No, my eyesight isn’t that bad either Dave, I just don’t drive. Which has both positives and negatives…

That sounds very ominous Piley. Ruined in a few short seconds? Is it ok? Can you see with that eye?

]]> By: Piley http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2761 Piley Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:52:19 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2761 As someone who had lovely eyes until 18 months ago, the opticians is somewhere I have seen way too often since then. I never minded them, but now I find them depressing and a remindeer of how my eyes (or I should say, one of my eyes) was ruined in a few short seconds... Ugh, life.... Look after ya peepers people... P As someone who had lovely eyes until 18 months ago, the opticians is somewhere I have seen way too often since then. I never minded them, but now I find them depressing and a remindeer of how my eyes (or I should say, one of my eyes) was ruined in a few short seconds… Ugh, life….

Look after ya peepers people…

P

]]> By: 23 Daves http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2760 23 Daves Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:26:26 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2760 I can't drive! This has nothing to do with my eyesight which, whilst terrible, isn't quite terrible enough to have those kinds of restrictions placed on me. I can’t drive! This has nothing to do with my eyesight which, whilst terrible, isn’t quite terrible enough to have those kinds of restrictions placed on me.

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2759 Cocktails Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:03 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2759 PM, sounds worse the more you write about it. The inside of the eye degrading?! I hope she hasn't had this for too long and that it won't get worse over time. Ah Dave, there is definitely a moral to that story! Although I know which situation is probably the nicer to be in. And it's nice to know that there are so many people with impoverished eyesight reading this blog. Makes me feel better somehow. Anyone can't drive as well then....? PM, sounds worse the more you write about it. The inside of the eye degrading?! I hope she hasn’t had this for too long and that it won’t get worse over time.

Ah Dave, there is definitely a moral to that story! Although I know which situation is probably the nicer to be in.

And it’s nice to know that there are so many people with impoverished eyesight reading this blog. Makes me feel better somehow. Anyone can’t drive as well then….?

]]> By: 23Daves http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2758 23Daves Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:55:14 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2758 I've regularly joked about the fact that when I was growing up, I had an optician who was a terrifying, mad old bag. She'd bark questions at me if I didn't get them right first time, had wild hair, stank of stale body odour and wore a moth-eaten grey cardigan. Ever since then I've had a succession of slightly mad optometrists who, whilst not unpleasant, did frequently give the impression they were orbiting Mars. However, no sooner did I start joking about this than I got a new optometrist who is really... well.. how can I put this... incredibly attractive and charming. This doesn't feel any more comfortable, strangely. As soon as she turns the lights out and "makes things all blurry", and starts breathing and gently talking down my ear, I can barely put my contact lenses in straight afterwards. And last time I went to see her, I genuinely couldn't, either... I suppose the moral of this tale is to be careful what you wish for. I’ve regularly joked about the fact that when I was growing up, I had an optician who was a terrifying, mad old bag. She’d bark questions at me if I didn’t get them right first time, had wild hair, stank of stale body odour and wore a moth-eaten grey cardigan. Ever since then I’ve had a succession of slightly mad optometrists who, whilst not unpleasant, did frequently give the impression they were orbiting Mars.

However, no sooner did I start joking about this than I got a new optometrist who is really… well.. how can I put this… incredibly attractive and charming. This doesn’t feel any more comfortable, strangely. As soon as she turns the lights out and “makes things all blurry”, and starts breathing and gently talking down my ear, I can barely put my contact lenses in straight afterwards. And last time I went to see her, I genuinely couldn’t, either… I suppose the moral of this tale is to be careful what you wish for.

]]> By: Planet Mondo http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2757 Planet Mondo Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:02:15 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2757 She's a regular at Specsavers - the floaters (which are the inside of the eye degrading apparently) are like cobwebs across her vision not bad in built up areas but awful outdoors open sea and sky..and without her contacts she has to literally hold a magazine up against the end of her nose to read the headlines.. She’s a regular at Specsavers – the floaters (which are the inside of the eye degrading apparently) are like cobwebs across her vision not bad in built up areas but awful outdoors open sea and sky..and without her contacts she has to literally hold a magazine up against the end of her nose to read the headlines..

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2756 Cocktails Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:40:33 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2756 I'm sure you're normal now ISBW, but were you always? Particularly when you were a student (hanging out with the Higsons if I recall correctly?) FC, that is very weird. Do you think that your prescription is very wrong, or just a bit out? And how can that be? They're meant to be the experts! Bloody hell PM, that's awful for Mrs M - that would scare me into going to the opticians pronto. I’m sure you’re normal now ISBW, but were you always? Particularly when you were a student (hanging out with the Higsons if I recall correctly?)

FC, that is very weird. Do you think that your prescription is very wrong, or just a bit out? And how can that be? They’re meant to be the experts!

Bloody hell PM, that’s awful for Mrs M – that would scare me into going to the opticians pronto.

]]> By: Planet Mondo http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2755 Planet Mondo Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:24:33 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2755 Perhaps I'm overdue for an eye test given my fumble-fingered replies, which go unnoticed until posting Perhaps I’m overdue for an eye test given my fumble-fingered replies, which go unnoticed until posting

]]> By: Planet Mondo http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2754 Planet Mondo Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:02:17 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2754 Luckily my eyes have always been trouble free *touches wood* Mrs M has terrible probs though..including 'floaters' and 'light flashe's not quite retinal detachment but a variation Luckily my eyes have always been trouble free *touches wood* Mrs M has terrible probs though..including ‘floaters’ and ‘light flashe’s not quite retinal detachment but a variation

]]> By: Five-Centres http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2753 Five-Centres Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:11:42 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2753 I'm currently in dispute with my optician about my wrong prescription. I'm convinced it's wrong, they say not. But my thinking is that I should know what's right for my eyes. Am I being unreasonable. I’m currently in dispute with my optician about my wrong prescription. I’m convinced it’s wrong, they say not. But my thinking is that I should know what’s right for my eyes. Am I being unreasonable.

]]> By: ishouldbeworking http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2752 ishouldbeworking Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:07:55 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2752 I get unnerved by having someone's face that close to my own (someone I don't know, I mean. I'm fine with my husband, and certain close friends.). And whaddaya mean, psychologists are weird?? I'm normal, me. Oh yes. I get unnerved by having someone’s face that close to my own (someone I don’t know, I mean. I’m fine with my husband, and certain close friends.).

And whaddaya mean, psychologists are weird?? I’m normal, me. Oh yes.

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2750 Cocktails Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:51:01 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2750 It is, VS, an alleged test for glaucoma. I know because after years of barely tolerating this torture, I finally asked. But I don't believe him. Your reasoning is much, much more feasible. It is, VS, an alleged test for glaucoma. I know because after years of barely tolerating this torture, I finally asked.

But I don’t believe him. Your reasoning is much, much more feasible.

]]> By: BLTP http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/07/06/the-eye-test/comment-page-1/#comment-2749 BLTP Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:51:45 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=2298#comment-2749 sorry i can't type "choosing a frame" but yes the whole thing is weird sorry i can’t type “choosing a frame” but yes the whole thing is weird

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