Gettin Old

[dkn1997]

I have ampbliopia (my brain doesn't blend the two images that my two eyes see)  The result of that has always been one eye with 20/400 and the other 20/20.  Bad eye not correctable since the eye itself is fine, but the pathways between it and my brain are F'd up.  anyway, I get by just fine....till now.  I have been having blurry vision lately and playing around with stuff I realize that I'm seeing far away things ok, but close up not so much. so I scurried down to the ole' Walmart today and tried on a pair of those fashionable (if you are Betty White) generic readers.  Bam! Clear vision! 

Really makes me feel old.  Turned 41 in November and I know needing reading glasses isn't the end of the world and it's better than a dose of the clap but it bums me a little.  I'm going to see a real Doc soon to do a real test.  It's not that I don't want trust the guy at Wallymart although I'm sure he graduated at the top of his sewing machine repair class, but I"m thinkin maybe someone who went to Eye doctor school in a building that has more than a dirt floor would be best in this situation.

[Richard Cranium]

Damn, you're not even old!

[69rtse4spd]

 Do not go cheap with the seeing an eye specialist, you only have two eyes. I know how you feel, got a blind spot in my right eye from cycle accident in 78. Left eye been giving me trouble from being diabetic, laser in both eyes. They can do some really good stuff now a days, good luck.  .

[BIGBLCK11]

Don't be so quick to judge his level of education.  The optometrist at the local Walmart here, gave up his full practice to go work there.  He cut out all the red tape and expenses, all his regular patients just go there instead.  Probably not typical, but you never know.

[dkn1997]

Don't be so quick to judge his level of education.  The optometrist at the local Walmart here, gave up his full practice to go work there.  He cut out all the red tape and expenses, all his regular patients just go there instead.  Probably not typical, but you never know.

I was just trying to be funny....and the thought had occured to me that the doc might be fine...but something in me can't trust my eyes to anyone operating out of a walmart/target/costco, etc...  I'm a bit old school and I guess to feel right about it I need to go into a private building, get treated like bin ladin crashing a baptism by the receptionist, be forced to copay at gunpoint before waiting an hour for an appt I show up  15 min early for....

We have good benefits and I'm more comfortable going the traditional route. 

[BIGBLCK11]

Heh, I can understand that.  I wasn't trying to be critical of your statement, just putting it out there.  A couple years ago, we paid triple for my wife's lasik surgery,  compared to what you can get it done for at some bargain basement, assembly line place that offers 2 for 1 or 1/2 off.  As said above, you only have two eyes.  It was worth it, for peace of mind.

[learical1]

we paid triple for my wife's lasik surgery,  compared to what you can get it done for at some bargain basement, assembly line place that offers 2 for 1 or 1/2 off. 

One of the big lasik centers here in Phoenix brags that their doctor has performed over 33,000 in the last 10 years.  Ten years equals 3652 days; 33000 divided by 3652 equals 9 lasik surgeries a day, assuming he never took a day off in the last 10 years.  Not too sure I'd want someone that strung out on Red Bull messin' with my eyes.

[Chargerrtforme]

Damn, you're not even old!

Well said.

[twodko]

Gotta chime in here dkn1997. At 41, you're certainly not old but after 40 or so things do begin to change. I'm 57 and I clearly feel old most of the time and 57 isn't all that old! It seems like just last month I was strong as hell, agile and fast. Crap! When I hit 45 it was like someone threw a switch. My distance vision was fine but I couldn't read a map book, newspaper, instrumentation etc to save my ass. Working the night shift was a visual Charlie Foxtrot. I trotted my sorry old self down to Longs an picked up a pair of reading specs. Bam, clear up close vision for me too. The thing that really made me feel old is when I was fitted for my partial plate when I was 43! Don't know why but that was tougher on me than reading glasses. I had to have spinal fusion, rods and screws bolted in there in '07............talk about feeling old. But f**k it........we have a Chargers Bro!