[dba-Tech] Actually a wetware issue

[Arthur Fuller]

Thanks for your insights. I shall book an exam promptly, and hope they can
help. I am pretty much ok on the laptop since I can touch-type, and I've
expanded the default font size, so it sort of works.
I feel like the world is receding from me, which is certainly better than
the experience of Saul's brother in *Better Call Saul*, one truly great
Netflix series, from the creators of its ancestor, *Breaking Bad.*

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 8:24 PM Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Before I had Lasik in 1999 I was used to going to an eye doctor every
> other year as I needed that to get a new prescription to get new
> glasses as my old ones would be scratched up and terrible by then.
> When I had Lasik in 1999 I no longer needed to do that.  After the
> follow up from the surgery I went a LONG TIME before returning for
> another exam.  And the eye doctor LECTURED ME that I still needed
> exams AT LEAST EVERY OTHER YEAR as BAD THINGS that are treatable can
> happen with our eyesight.
>
> I still went 5 or more years between exams before developing an
> infection and having no other option as I needed relief.  I've since
> been being treated for "Chronic Dry Eye" mostly in my left eye but
> really in both.  I'm back to wearing glasses.  Eye doctor has told me
> they are watching degradation of my retinal nerve and I have cataracts
> that will need to be addressed eventually.  With the COVID-19
> situation I am probably overdue for an exam but I will need to take
> care of that soon.
>
> Don't put off eye exams.
>
> GK
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 7:02 PM rockysmolin bchacc.com
> <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> >
> > First - go get an eye exam.  I'd say go to Costco but they're not doing
> them at the moment.
> >
> > But you should probably go to an ophthalmologist - can tell you if you
> have glaucoma or cataracts or just old man disease.  Once you get a scrip
> you can go to Costco - they got a lot of nice frames.
> >
> > r
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of Arthur Fuller
> > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 4:45 PM
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] Actually a wetware issue
> >
> > My vision seems to rapidly deteriorating. For a person who spends a lot
> of
> > time reading, this is a disaster. I think I'd prefer to lose a leg rather
> > than my eyesight.
> > My bifocals are several years old; perhaps it is time for another
> > examination. A side question: I have been experimenting (by closing one
> eye
> > then the other and comparing views) and have learned that my left eye is
> > substantially worse than my right eye. But when I see estimates of
> vision,
> > I typically see 20-20 or some variation of what appears to be the measure
> > of a single eye. Should I choose to buy new glasses, the pair of lenses
> > would require different prescriptions, methinks. Does anyone know
> anything
> > about this? I most certainly don't.
> > Second question. My neighbourhood was formerly, well, not a slum but
> > definitely inhabited by a majority of economically impoverished people,
> and
> > in the past few years is undergoing Gentrification. As a consequence of
> > that, the stores on Queen Street have all been gentrified as well. Within
> > about 5 blocks of me are an equal number of stores that sell glasses, and
> > basically they sell fashion-glasses. All I'm after is a pair of glasses
> > that work. I'm way too old to consider the fashion aspect; I just want
> > glasses that work, so once again I can read my usual couple of books a
> week.
> >
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Arthur