Eye can see you now...
May. 24th, 2011 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThe eye doctor/office problem has been solved. I have found the perfect spot with the perfect staff. (Seattle Vision - on Union between 3rd and 4th).
I got there early and they were fine with that. The doctor - Dr. Habib - was wonderful (and pretty easy on the eyes before and after correction, actually). He listened to me and did not give me jargon stuff and did answer all my questions and proposed a solution that turned out not to work so we worked on a Plan B together and I am just delighted.
It turns out I have natural monovision. One eye works best for long vision and one works best for near vision and together they do pretty darned well with no correction at all (which I suspected) except for computer work.
We tried two contacts and a couple of other contact options but when I could see the computer, I couldn't see the phone and my distance vision got wonky. Finally we agreed that no correction was the best and I would just get computer glasses. So that's what I did. He gave me a prescription for computer glasses and one for regular in case I wanted to try just a little bit of correction in the one weaker eye. (He actually suggested that I get 1.25 readers and just pop out the glass of the opposite eye so there was no correction and that would work as well!)
They gave me both prescriptions typed out and easy to read and offered to fill one or both in a manner that would have been quite comfortable to decline had I wanted to skinny out of there and get el cheapos online. I was so impressed that I decided to order my computer glasses from them right there and I did. 2 weeks. And they take Discover!
AND they let me use a corner of their show room to listen in on a conf call I needed to for work.
Total win. Total.
Oh and I have the beginnings of a cataract. He said these days they don't do anything with cataracts when they are young and mine was a toddler.
I remember when my grandmother had her cataract removed. It was done in a hospital and she stayed overnight. She was not allowed to move her head at least for a day and maybe longer and they told her if she sneezed, she'd go blind (probably an exaggeration there).
By the time my mother got hers removed, things had changed... Outpatient. Took an hour and she could read the paper with no correction at all at age 80.
Mainly now, after years of hassle, I have an eye doctor I am happy to go see and who's easy to get to without driving. Sweet!
I got there early and they were fine with that. The doctor - Dr. Habib - was wonderful (and pretty easy on the eyes before and after correction, actually). He listened to me and did not give me jargon stuff and did answer all my questions and proposed a solution that turned out not to work so we worked on a Plan B together and I am just delighted.
It turns out I have natural monovision. One eye works best for long vision and one works best for near vision and together they do pretty darned well with no correction at all (which I suspected) except for computer work.
We tried two contacts and a couple of other contact options but when I could see the computer, I couldn't see the phone and my distance vision got wonky. Finally we agreed that no correction was the best and I would just get computer glasses. So that's what I did. He gave me a prescription for computer glasses and one for regular in case I wanted to try just a little bit of correction in the one weaker eye. (He actually suggested that I get 1.25 readers and just pop out the glass of the opposite eye so there was no correction and that would work as well!)
They gave me both prescriptions typed out and easy to read and offered to fill one or both in a manner that would have been quite comfortable to decline had I wanted to skinny out of there and get el cheapos online. I was so impressed that I decided to order my computer glasses from them right there and I did. 2 weeks. And they take Discover!
AND they let me use a corner of their show room to listen in on a conf call I needed to for work.
Total win. Total.
Oh and I have the beginnings of a cataract. He said these days they don't do anything with cataracts when they are young and mine was a toddler.
I remember when my grandmother had her cataract removed. It was done in a hospital and she stayed overnight. She was not allowed to move her head at least for a day and maybe longer and they told her if she sneezed, she'd go blind (probably an exaggeration there).
By the time my mother got hers removed, things had changed... Outpatient. Took an hour and she could read the paper with no correction at all at age 80.
Mainly now, after years of hassle, I have an eye doctor I am happy to go see and who's easy to get to without driving. Sweet!
