OT - eye test

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Matty F saying something like:

Because of the possibility of confusion - normally the convention is from the patient's /subject's /driver's viewpoint, but who knows what viewpoint has been used if a third party is reading it. The hard and fast naming of a part does away with the possibility of removing the wrong kidney, leg, eye, etc, - you'd think, anyway. Of course, that doesn't totally avoid the chance of total cockup, as happened here, when a surgeon removed a healthy kidney from a kid, leaving him with the bust one. This was in spite of the mother and somebody else spotting the error and mentioning it.

[Mike Lane]

Another Dave wrote on Jul 22, 2010:

I've the same operation in one eye and the surgeon asked me if I wanted a lens to give sharp distance vision or an intermediate one making it easier for closer stuff. Since I'm slightly myopic in the other eye I opted for the former which means I can cope with most situations without glasses

[Spamlet]

I doubt very much if the shop is still there, and the screw hole that fixed the original is worn out - hence the stitching. The plastic tube I used is actually softer and more comfortable than the hard original anyway.

S

[Matty F]

I don't see how having Latin for Left and Right could help in any way. Except for having jargon so that clients just pay exorbitant fees without question.

It's a common practice to write on the part concerned with a felt tip pen. If this is not done, the patient should ask why not. Some professionals seem to have no common sense.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Most of what everyone sees is the result of the brain applying continuous photoshop type processes to what are actually very much worse images from the eyes than you perceive.

[Dave Baker]

I actually also had a test 10 years ago but again the prescription hadn't changed so I didn't bother getting new glasses. However I finally broke my

30 year old specs last year by falling asleep on them and a nose piece snapped off the 20 year old ones this year hence the new test before getting new specs just in case anything had changed. Since it hasn't I'm rather wishing I hadn't broken the old specs.

They did give me a "puff test" for intra eyeball pressure though which I've never had before. It was all fine until on one go on my left eye the machine puffed about three times as hard as it had done before and I shot backwards off the seat like a stabbed ferret with tears streaming out of my eye. The girl doing the test thought this was quite hilarious as I stumbled around the room trying to get my sight back.

[chris French]

In message , Matty F writes

You can still get mistakes. People have marked the wrong side or whatever before now. which is why there should be multiple checks, as sooner or later, no matter how good someone is they will make a mistake.

[Fred]

Me too! I need some new specs but want to be able to see if I look up, down, left, or right. The trendy narrow ones don't allow that. Is any optician still selling big frames?

[Clot]

None that I have found. Look after your frames and have new lenses. You will be welcomed at home by your wife and children for having the latest fashion - but you will be able to see!

[chris French]

Depends on what you mean by big I guess, but /specsavers (as i happen to have been there recently) certainly have 'aviator' styles ones and others of similar lense size - about 55mm diamater.

eg.

Or Galsses direct:

I don't esp like the modern rectangular narrow-ish ones, but I quite like my new ones which are sort of in between in dpeth

[Huge]

You need to find a "family" opticians. Preferably not in a trendy High St. I go here;

still has a good selection of reasonably sized frames.

[geoff]

In message , chris French writes

Like these ?

[Clive George]

I'm very pleased with my rimless pair. Lenses are as big as I could get, which is slightly smaller than my old ones, but they sit closer to my face so no gap problem. They also don't slip down, partly due to weighing bugger all and also I think due to the springy arms (no hinges).

I see RDS sells similar through one of his sites. Not cheap, but working well.

[Andy Burns]

Those are all the same reasons I'm more pleased with my rimless ones than any other pair I've had in thirty mumble years, plus the less noticable "edge" of vision where the frame isn't IYSWIM.

The only downside was suffering a headache for a couple of days while my brain learnt to "map out" the four dots where the arms and bridge impinge on the lens.