#eye doctor

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[grapemoon]

Wasnt gonna post this but decided ehhh fuck it. Got bored in the eye doctor waiting room and decided that if i am then Pomni must be too

[theartisticendeavor]

Art by Gahan Wilson

[millerflintstone]

Nothing like having a bad eye to jam up your Saturday.

About a year and a half ago I had very sudden retinal laser eye surgery to fix a tear in my right retina that hadn't caused a detachment yet. I was very lucky. I had been seeing a round dot in my peripheral vision on and off.

After a disappointing appointment with my then eye doctor, I got an appointment at my prior optometrist's office. That doctor referred me to a retinal specialist and he fixed me up. He also told me if I ever saw new floaters or flashers, to let him know immediately.

Yesterday was Juneteenth observed for my job so I was out running errands in the morning. I noticed black spots in my peripheral vision up near the top of my right eye. They were not going away and I had a mini freak out in a grocery store parking lot.

I got it together, continued on to my last errand and called the retinal specialist's office. They let my doctor know and he set me up for a Saturday appointment at another office.

As the day progressed, I started seeing flashing light in my right peripheral vision, too. Didn't matter if the eye was open or closed

My vitreous gel in that eye has pulled away a bit from my retina and there is a small dot of blood back there. No new retinal tear or retinal detachment, but I have a follow up in 2 weeks to make sure things haven't gotten worse. Apparently the vitreous gel detachment thing is just due to aging.

Sigh.

I'm okay for now. Wondering how much longer until I get full on retinal detachment as I age.

[sickpunk-selfshipper]

Imagine your F/O accompanying you to the eye doctor

You would have walked, you knew you would get eye drops and wouldn’t be allowed to drive,

But your F/O insisted to drive and/ or accompany you to your appointment

They gently poke fun at your vision being worse than usual, due to the eye drops

You demand they buy you take-out on the way home

“Sure”, your F/O is still grinning. Their teasing tone can barely overplay their affection.

You remind them it’s not like you asked them to come along, after all it’s a scheduled check-up

They remind you they love you and wanted to make sure you’re getting home safely, knowing about the eye drops

You’re stumped for a reply

They shrug like it’s nothing, nudging you that you still need to decide where to get that take-out you insist they pay for

You try to hide your smile, conceding that, okay, maybe you should buy them a meal

Your F/O ruffles your hair, “Next time. Just let me treat you today, okay?”

antis DNI! This post isn’t for you!

[cyber-therian]

do u think the eye doctor will flip her shit when a bipedal fox walks in and sits on the examination chair?

[i-am-trans-gwender]

My eye doctor name is Lapidot. Imagine your surname being a Steven Universe ship.

[sadxbaddie]

Me cold AF at my eye appt 🥶

[tiredoflyme]

My opthalmologist drove me up a fucking wall today. She kept wanting to reduce the magnification on my reading glasses because someone in their 30s shouldn't need something that strong. She kept saying that "shouldn't" and "age group" until I had to take a hard stance with her.

"I have osteoporosis, I've been through menopause, I've been sick with chronic illnesses since I was 15. My age group is irrelevant to my health."

She was annoyed with me I could tell. I'd seen another doctor in the practice last time as a fill in who was super thorough. For the followup, I requested that they switch that woman to my regular doctor instead. I don't deal with doctors who try to force me into the "normal" box and don't address my actual problems.

[kyathedino]

went to the eye doctor. they said i got a sigma tism😔💔

[gears2gnomes]

The annual eye doctor visit went well.

[zoomar]

Contact lens

[alarminglybad]

That poor doctor

[ahedderick]

Alms for the blind

   On June 30th I had an appointment with an eye doctor to get new glasses. The ones I got just last year are, sadly, no longer right for my Very Terrible* eyes. Even worse, the left eye was ‘out’ and the right eye wasn’t too bad - so each eye was seeing differently and that created a lot of strain.

   My regular doctor, who I’ve been seeing since - jEeZ over thirty years?! - has reduced his hours, getting ready for retirement. They offered me an appointment with another optometrist in the practice. I shrugged to myself and accepted it. I guess I knew it would happen someday. I had the appointment, with a very thorough screening for other issues (such as peripheral vision) and a double vision test (near and far vision). She told me she could hook me up with a new prescription that would fix the eye strain I’ve been having. I left very anxious to get the new ones. Along with poor vision, my frames keep breaking!

   I glued my current frames together one more time. This morning I was able to go pick up the new ones. I put them on and

WHAT!?

   They were - terrible! There is no other word for it. I could see distance, but couldn’t read at ALL. The lady helping me kept urging me to try holding the paper at different distances (she SAW me move it from a few inches out to arm’s length - I don’t know why she kept asking) or hold my head at awkward angles to see if that helped. She would not accept that they were wrong. The left eye had double vision and the right was simply a blur. Even my old glasses, imperfect as they are, let me read if I focus carefully. She very much wanted me to just give in and accept them. I’ve been a customer there at that same store, as I mentioned, for over thirty years. I feel like they should trust me a little bit. I would not say they were bad if they weren’t bad.

  She reluctantly put me down for a new vision check with my regular optician. I am so disappointed. I have to take my glasses off, currently, for reading, sewing, or detailed artwork. And hold the thing I’m looking at a few inches from my nose! I won’t be able to see him until the 24th, then I’ll have another 2 week wait for lenses. I don’t know HOW the lens manufacturers managed to screw up so badly and different for each eye. {exasperation}

* Last time I asked, my vision was at 20/400. Yes, twenty over four HUnDreD. That is “legally blind**” levels of bad.

** First I typed ‘legally bling’ and that - ought to be a thing, actually.

[foxsketch6543]

POV: You’re at the eye doctor’s appointment

[bookishbrigitta]

So, I went to the eye doctor for the first time this week and was diagnosed with "Yeah, you need glasses a little bit. Like, mildly."

And as a disabled person, the whole experience has been so weird because, yes, it's another medical thing, but it's so aggressively normal and common. Like, half my family wears glasses. Most of my closest friends. More than half of my coworkers.

But at the same time, I'm realizing there are experiences I've had that aren't "typical" as in "what people with 20/20 vision see."

Like, for example, you can't see light diffusing. I always thought what I was seeing was physics, but it's actually astigmatism.

So I've been on this rollercoaster of "Huh, I guess something is wrong" -> "Well, that's validating" -> "This is a bit of a hassle" -> "What about this thing?" -> "Huh, I guess something IS wrong!"