I went to see my eye doctor the other to have my yearly check-up. Here in Europe, I get to visit my dentist, my ophthalmologist, our family doctor, and my gynecologist without worrying about spending €€€€€€€. We get the basic and necessary health care for free…err, well… not actually free. We are paying an obligatory monthly health insurance premium. I like their health care system and we have something similar back home (Phil-health) but not once did I ever benefit from it.
So, going back to my eyes… I wanted to get myself a pair of new contact lenses because I don’t think the old ones (dailies) I bought in Shanghai still correspond to my eye prescription. I want to use contact lenses at work because my eyeglasses often get in the way. We do a lot of singing, dancing, jumping, running around, and rolling over in the classroom and I don’t like to be bothered by the feeling that my eyeglasses will fall off.
After going through all the necessary procedure, I got my new eye prescription and I am so disappointed to learn that my eyes are really deteriorating very fast. I asked my ophthalmologist if I would be a suitable candidate for laser eye surgery and he told me that they only accept patients whose eye prescriptions are constant. Mine varies every few months.
This is a clear sign of aging.
