Okay,
Now I know that once in a while the looney bin goes around and announces "Who wants to get their eyes tested today, follow me!"
Today is already turning out to be one of those days.
I take my first patient back to take acutaties, tell her to cover her left eye. She takes her hand, not the paddle mind you, but her hand and covers her left eye. Instead of wanting to correct her, I simply hand her the paddle, hoping that she will catch on, instead she starts to cover her right eye with the paddle.
HOW I ask you, does she expect to see with both eyes covered?
Then, I have another lady that comes in, her autorefract over her contacts is +1.25 -1.25, while the rx on her glasses is spherical, obvious over wear. When I ask her how often does she take her contacts out, she confides in me that it's once every two weeks, when they bother her. As for giving her eyes a break from the contacts, the night before she will take them out and then pop a fresh pair in the next day.
At one point I used to lecture the patients, now I look at them, tell them that they are adults and if they know better and choose to do what they do, so be it.
Just felt like venting on what is turning out to a be a painfully slow day.
Richard
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