Eye Exam

[LASteve]

I went to see my opthalmologist today (aka my Eye Doctor). Last year's appointment was furloughed for obvious reasons, so it's been a two-year gap.

It turns out, as I suspected, that I need a new prescription for my distance and reading glasses (I have progressives, so the same thing really).

What was unsuspected was that my eyes have got better, not worse. Dr. Choi asked what I'd been doing differently, and the only thing I could think of was that I've been spending more time fixing up my locos over the last two years with a magnifying glass and soldering iron and distributing tiny pieces of ballast with a pair of tweezers.

She told me to keep doing that!

So bless you, Dr. Choi, I have certified medical encouragement to model in "N" gauge.

I've not told the Project Manager yet. She doesn't need to hear any more excuses.

[Bealman]

That's unexpected but decidedly good news, Steve. 

Sometimes I wonder about medical stuff. Take blood pressure, for example. It's hardly a constant - it's constantly varying according to conditions. It's really only good for a general trend type of measurement.

Which brings me to my particular lurgy, haemachromitosis (that's probably the wrong spelling - just 'cos I suffer from it, doesn't mean I can spell it). Every time I go to the blood doc, the nurse always says, "Geez your BP is high" and I reply, "Of course it is, I know what you're going to do to me!"

Well, just like your eyes, Steve, my iron levels at my last couple of visits have been the best they've been in ten years, and I'm informed my liver is improving. The professor (yes, the blood doc is a prof) said, "Well done, you must have cut down on the alcohol, have you?"

Of course, my answer was, "No, I'm going on the way I always do"

So, his verdict: just keep doing what you're doing, because it's working!

I think you've got the best eye doctor in the world, mate, and my blood doctor is a champion. (I just wish he'd stop making me dump a bag of blood every visit, but hey, I'm not about to argue). 

[LASteve]

I think you've got the best eye doctor in the world, mate, and my blood doctor is a champion. (I just wish he'd stop making me dump a bag of blood every visit, but hey, I'm not about to argue). 

Cheers to that! Up with this kind of thing! 

[njee20]

Trains on prescription perhaps? Although I guess in the US your insurance company will want $5,000 for a coach! 

[LASteve]

\Although I guess in the US your insurance company will want $5,000 for a coach! 

That's OK. Gives some people more to complain about on the "eBay Madness" thread.

[Bob G]

I went to see my opthalmologist today (aka my Eye Doctor). Last year's appointment was furloughed for obvious reasons, so it's been a two-year gap.

It turns out, as I suspected, that I need a new prescription for my distance and reading glasses (I have progressives, so the same thing really).

What was unsuspected was that my eyes have got better, not worse.

Ditto here too. You really must stop copying me
I was told I'd be normal in about 500 years time....but then people have been saying that about me for years.

Get the right lenses though. I was mis-sold Essilor on a 2 for 1 promotion and I ALWAYS have Hoya. There is a reason for that....

Bob

[Malc]

I, like George, suffer with white coat syndrome. It's not helped by the long flight of stairs up to the consulting room. So I bought a pukka blood pressure gauge, just like the one they use. £10 from the chemist. As a result of me taking the pressures over a couple of days before my check up, I've been taken of my Lisinopril, blood pressure reducing tablets.

[Railwaygun]

The best and most accurate BP meters are those recommended  by the BIHS  ( British & Irish hypertension society)

https://bihsoc.org/bp-monitors/

[railsquid]

Get the right lenses though. I was mis-sold Essilor on a 2 for 1 promotion and I ALWAYS have Hoya. There is a reason for that....

Apropos of nothing, Hoya the company is named after the eponymous district in Tokyo where it was founded, which is directly next door to the district where Chez Railsquid is located.