Tue May 18, 2021 12:41 pm
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Find a properly qualified Ophthalmic surgeon.
No idea how you find one in the UK, but once Covid is a bit kinder on travel - I thoroughly recommend coming over here to Belgium and paying not too much money for a highly qualified professional to take a keek at your peekers (or is it peek at your keekers?).
The missus managed to find a gem here whilst looking for someone to deal with her extremely poor unaided eyesight - the surgeon she found has a research doctorate in ophthalmology, and has been our family “opthalmo” for 20 years.
The missus had surgery in the early 2000s, went from needing glasses to see the large display on her bedside clock - to hardly needing glasses at all. Don’t remember the term for the type of surgery - but in practical terms IIRC they sliced open the cornea, took a precise little triangle cut out of it then glued it all back together again.
Alas, the waiting time for seeing our opthalmo is about a year, but there is a decent network of them - and once you’ve managed to get your first appointment, it’s simply a case of scheduling things.
She predicted with decent accuracy when I’d need varifocals. When that did happen, and it happened almost one night to the next, she did a fantastic job of doing my prescription - and also which specialist to see to have the glasses made.
I was a tad dubious - as it was a place in the fanciest part of Brussels, and I did challenge her on “why them”. She explained they had the best kit available for doing extremely precise varifocal measurements - she knew I had “flying” on my insurance - and wasn’t kidding when she said they had good customer service. I wouldn’t pay a penny until I had signed off the glasses did the job, and the first year was “fully comp” insured - both in terms of damage/loss or whatever to the glasses, and also if there had been a change in my eyesight and I needed a replacement prescription.
Expensive? Yes - but I have to begrudgingly admit “worth it”.
Don’t get me started on UK High Street Opticians…..