Monday, June 11, 2007
Last week, as it had been two years since my last check-up, I popped into the optician's for a quick eye test. I thought. '15 mins reading the chart and then choose some new specs.' Alas no. He discovered what I have known for ten years that there is no vision in the bottom left quadrant of one eye. It's been checked out before and the conclusion was 'a congenital abnormality that we haven't had the technology to detect before.' However, all credit to him, he wanted to be thorough so I spent two hours in a darkened room reading eye charts and playing 'click when you see the light.' I came out with eyes like a bush baby (drops to dilate the pupils) and a referral to a specialist.
Today I went through the whole thing again with the ophthalmologist only for him to conclude, "Your eyes are good enough to get you into the army. You can hardly ask for more at your age!" Indeed not. I had to spend the rest of the day wearing dark glasses though. I imagined myself as a fading fifties film star going shopping incognito. And I wasn't mobbed in the queue at Officeworks so the disguise must have worked.
Current weight: 77.1 kg
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Today I went through the whole thing again with the ophthalmologist only for him to conclude, "Your eyes are good enough to get you into the army. You can hardly ask for more at your age!" Indeed not. I had to spend the rest of the day wearing dark glasses though. I imagined myself as a fading fifties film star going shopping incognito. And I wasn't mobbed in the queue at Officeworks so the disguise must have worked.
Current weight: 77.1 kg
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