Well, I just got back from a very well respected optometrist’s appointment. He’s been in Edgemont Village for about 25 years so there’ll be no arguments. First of all, I want to say that he actually is a very nice man. Hmmm. A doctor with compassion, a sense of humour, a good bedside manner. I should be suspicious.
Dr. Thompson is super. He was recommended to me and I highly recommend him. I explained the situation to him. Had cataract surgery. Was supposed to have a corrective lens put in. I didn’t feel that I could see better so I really wanted him to tell me that I was wrong. That my prescription had changed.
No such luck. There was almost no difference between my existing glass prescription and my new vision. No 20/20 in the corrected eye. Exactly the same…well a little worse in the right eye but so little that it didn’t warrant a new Rx. Left eye the same.
So now I have to ask myself this question: Who got my lens? I paid for a corrective lens. Assuming one was ordered – and maybe I shouldn’t assume- then someone got my lens and I got theirs. They decided against corrective lenses and now someone has something they didn’t want. Actually that lens was made to match my eye against its deficits, shape, etc. So what kind of vision does that person have?
And now I have to decide what to do about it. I’m going to give Dr. Chubb one last time to tell me the truth. Last time I asked him if there was even the smallest possibility that a mistake had happened during surgery and he refused to answer me. I won’t let him refuse again.
I’ll keep everyone up to date after I see him late in October.
