The nerve
So I went to the optometrist yesterday, and everything was going smashingly, right up until the end, when she pointed out that she measured my left optic nerve at .25 (mm?) and my right one at .15. This wouldn't be a problem in and of itself, except that at my last appointment, they were both .15.
She says that this may be a very early sign of glaucoma, or it may be a difference in the way she and the last optometrist measured the nerve. I get to go back in six months for a follow-up, and if it has continued to grow, then I might be in trouble. Well, trouble thirty years from now, but still, I don't ever want to go blind. In the meantime, "eat right, keep fit," the usual blah blah blah.
Also, for some reason, she was insistent that I was going to get laser eye surgery. The last time I went, 2 1/2 years ago, I did want them to check to see if I was a candidate, but I got glasses then and haven't been back since, so obviously it wasn't a big priority for me. But yesterday, she was all talking about how the glaucoma issue might delay it and she doesn't know how big a rush I am in about it and she can send me over to Horizon and let me put these drops in your eyes that'll dilate your pupils for the next eight hours, and I'm like, I didn't ask for laser eye surgery, and she just keeps going. Either she gets a kickback, or everybody she sees wants the surgery, because holy goddamn crap! Seriously, lady, you just told me I might have glaucoma. I don't want to talk about re-shaping contacts.
She says that this may be a very early sign of glaucoma, or it may be a difference in the way she and the last optometrist measured the nerve. I get to go back in six months for a follow-up, and if it has continued to grow, then I might be in trouble. Well, trouble thirty years from now, but still, I don't ever want to go blind. In the meantime, "eat right, keep fit," the usual blah blah blah.
Also, for some reason, she was insistent that I was going to get laser eye surgery. The last time I went, 2 1/2 years ago, I did want them to check to see if I was a candidate, but I got glasses then and haven't been back since, so obviously it wasn't a big priority for me. But yesterday, she was all talking about how the glaucoma issue might delay it and she doesn't know how big a rush I am in about it and she can send me over to Horizon and let me put these drops in your eyes that'll dilate your pupils for the next eight hours, and I'm like, I didn't ask for laser eye surgery, and she just keeps going. Either she gets a kickback, or everybody she sees wants the surgery, because holy goddamn crap! Seriously, lady, you just told me I might have glaucoma. I don't want to talk about re-shaping contacts.
posted by Joanne at 9:52 a.m.
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