Call me Ishmael

So I walked to the hospital on both my feet, and saw the orthoptist. Hello Ms. Orthoptist....

I'm then made to feel like a grade one fraud. She tests my eyes nine ways from Sunday, and pronounces that I don't have significant double vision problems. I be almost normal.

But, er, what about the wobbling when focusing on an object? There be very little evidence of that either. Definitely not the same as when I had my eye test.

Ok, what about when I'm looking at eg, a patch of gravel? It's all shimmery. Oh, that's a side effect of having prism in your prescription, didn't they warn you about it? er, no.

Wait a while to see the consultant. Hello Mr. consultant. He flicks thru my notes, and then tells me the tests I had done three years ago when all this eye stuff started was to check if I had multiple sclerosis. Excuse me! Er, no one told me that at the time.... er, did I pass?

He thinks whatever happened three years ago has in some way caused damage to my eye. I think he's also thinking this sudden jump in required prism is perhaps a re-occurrence, but he's not committing to saying it.
He makes reassuring noises that I don't have anything major to worry about, but come back in two months for more tests, or immediately if I feel something is going horrendously wrong.

Upshot is I feel slightly better, but also cautiously worried. What is said eyes really up to? Is Noah and his chum the whale going to release a single called blind C'riz you're all doooooomed?

On not being defective

I think I'm going mad. Yes, madder than normal.

For a while now I've been thinking I can't see properly. Like I'm driving along and I have to concentrate to make out the next car's number plate. So being a dutiful citizen who follows the laws I booked myself in to the opticians.

Just been there now, explains my concerns, read my chart plz. Er.... you can easily see two lines more than the driving standard. Twiddle twiddle, better with this lens and all that tot, and the verdict is my current specs are the correct prescription, and I can see perfectly fine.

So it's either all in my little head, or I'm not allowing for it becoming winter and darker, or there be something wrong but it's not happening right there in the shop. I don't know if I should be relieved that there's nothing wrong, or upset that there's nothing wrong.

Oh well, it will soon be winter properly and I'll get SAD again and won't want to go out or do anything but sleep, so maybe that will cure it. Depression as something to look forwards to. Hmmm.. yes I am a fruitloop..