Friday, June 02, 2006
Exploding eye balls
My brother once blogged on how his eyeball has extra high pressure and might explode. I can't be bothered to search his blog for the permalink, so you'll have to take my word for it.
Mindful of this, I approached today's eye test with some trepidation.
Optician: Is there any history of glaucoma in your family?
Me: what is glaucoma?
Optician: It's when your eyeball has too high pressure and explodes.
Me: Well my brother had high pressure in one eyeball in his last test. It'll probably explode soon.
Optician: Did they call him back for monitoring or anything?
Me: No they said the pressure was within safe limits but just different across the two eyes.
Optician: Oh right, that's nothing to worry about. By the way, your test was absolutely fine.
In fact it turned out that my prescription is actually 0.25 diopters better than last time. The optician told me this isn't actually a good thing because reducing my prescription will actually make my eyes feel like they are straining because of the weaker lenses. Bah!
Anyway, by a miraculous coincidence, it turns out that my brother's eye really is exploding after all.
Observant blog readers will notice that this blog was posted in the early hours of Friday morning. The story only makes sense when you realise I didn't know it was past midnight and thought it was still Thursday.
Observant members of my family will notice that my eyetest was on Thursday morning. Leaving my parents' house on Tuesday morning at crack of dawn in order to make the appointment on Tuesday was to no avail because as my eye test was due I was sitting in a traffic jam just west of South Mimms services.
Mindful of this, I approached today's eye test with some trepidation.
Optician: Is there any history of glaucoma in your family?
Me: what is glaucoma?
Optician: It's when your eyeball has too high pressure and explodes.
Me: Well my brother had high pressure in one eyeball in his last test. It'll probably explode soon.
Optician: Did they call him back for monitoring or anything?
Me: No they said the pressure was within safe limits but just different across the two eyes.
Optician: Oh right, that's nothing to worry about. By the way, your test was absolutely fine.
In fact it turned out that my prescription is actually 0.25 diopters better than last time. The optician told me this isn't actually a good thing because reducing my prescription will actually make my eyes feel like they are straining because of the weaker lenses. Bah!
Anyway, by a miraculous coincidence, it turns out that my brother's eye really is exploding after all.
Update
Observant blog readers will notice that this blog was posted in the early hours of Friday morning. The story only makes sense when you realise I didn't know it was past midnight and thought it was still Thursday.
Observant members of my family will notice that my eyetest was on Thursday morning. Leaving my parents' house on Tuesday morning at crack of dawn in order to make the appointment on Tuesday was to no avail because as my eye test was due I was sitting in a traffic jam just west of South Mimms services.
# posted by JeremyP : 12:31 am
