I spy with my little eye
It’s been getting harder and harder to read signs at a distance with my glasses, so I scheduled an eye exam for today.
Turns out, my eyes have gotten better. Like, a lot better. My glasses aren’t working because they’re too strong for me now. Weird. My dad’s eyes improved in his sixties, so I’m not shocked.
I also paid £5 to get a 3D scan of my eyeball (the basic exam was free because old woman + socialized medicine). The scan lets them fly around your eyeball like Luke Skywalker over the Death Star.
I have the beginnings of a lamellar macular hole. It showed up two years ago on my first 3D scan. The optometrist explained it to me then but didn’t give it a name.
This lady (who was Russian for some reason) said for god’s sake don’t Google it and think you have macular degeneration. This has nothing to do with that. It’s a little bubble in the retina and if it breaks through, I might have some blurred or distorted vision.
I have a little eye chart to test for it. The Amsler chart, it’s called. Which is also used to test macular degeneration (but seriously this isn’t that). They gave me one last time but didn’t tell me why, so I never bothered. I might still not bother.
I’m sure he didn’t name it last time because he didn’t want me Googling it and freaking out.
The pic is from the same church as yesterday. I figured you’d rather look at that than the inside of some gross eyeball.
Posted: August 29th, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 9
Comments
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: August 29, 2024, 7:57 pm
“The pic is from the same church as yesterday. I figured you’d rather look at that than the inside of some gross eyeball.”
Thank you 👀
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: August 29, 2024, 8:42 pm
You can now read government-sized print without reading glasses?
Huzzah !!!!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 29, 2024, 9:07 pm
Theese peekture, it is very grainy.
Har har.
😁
Comment from OldFert
Time: August 30, 2024, 1:15 am
I think looking inside an eyeball would be interesting.
Just had mine checked yesterday and they took some pictures of each. Doc looked at them, hmmm’d and hmmm’d and said they looked stable from last year. He didn’t let me mess around with the pictures, though.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 30, 2024, 1:42 am
Tomorrow – 9:00 sharp.
Small world eh?
Comment from Carl
Time: August 30, 2024, 11:36 am
This afternoon. Regular glaucoma check.
Comment from Jon
Time: August 30, 2024, 5:35 pm
I’d rather see the eyeball honestly but church art is nice too.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 30, 2024, 6:44 pm
They didn’t give me pictures of my own eyeball. I’d’ve had to post pictures of someone else’s eyeball with a similar condition, which seemed pointless.
Comment from Armybrat
Time: August 30, 2024, 11:34 pm
I got my first pair of glasses at about 18 months of age. Got my first set of contacts at 8 years of age…part of an NIH study to see if putting a rigid plastic disc on the eyeballs of kids like me would slow down the progression and advancement of astigmatism. It all worked “meh.” I went from requiring new lenses every 6 months to every 8 months. A small but important savings for my folks.
As you get older, the muscles of the eye that distort the shape grow lax…like every other muscle in the body so in this case shit gets better. I went from a period of relative stability for 20 years to back to changes every 6 months as the muscles loose elasticity and my prescription needs to be changed again…to the tune of about $1000/6 months and $1000/6 months for new contacts.
Welcome to my world.
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