My primary set me up to have an eye exam. Being diabetic I have a yearly exam but this new primary says current thinking is that this sort of eye exam should be done two times a year now. Great, more money being sucked out for medical shit.
So Hubs took me to the eye doc last week. I couldn't help but notice the giant eyeball statue in the complex's courtyard. I posed with it after we were heading out.........
So we go into the check-in area and there is a large decked out Christmas tree.......
Folks around here seem to leave Christmas trees up most of the year.....Christmas decorations make way for Mardi Gras decorations and/or Valentine's decorations. As I looked closer at this tree I noticed there were rather large silver balls which had been painted to look like eyeballs. Hmmm. A bit creepy in my book.
So I rather quickly got escorted back by a technician to a small room where she did an intake on me and then tested my vision with the infamous eye chart. Between answering questions and trying to make out the lines on the eye chart, while she was writing stuff down I made the comment that "I could never work here.". She looked at me with a puzzled facial expression and I explained that I found this whole place creepy, as there was nothing but eyeball themed art work on the walls and on EVERY SINGLE WALL IN THE BUILDING. And this small room had a large piece of artwork featuring a ginormous eyeball on it that kept staring at me! She responded in a rather haughty tone that, "Well, all this art work is done by local artists." That's all fine and good but seriously?.....if someone was paranoid, all these eyeballs staring at a person might drive them running from the place. lolz
So after finishing with this tech person I went back into the waiting room and then was called back by a different technician to a different room. He had me look into a machine with bright green x's to measure something or other. I made a comment that I felt like I was going to play MineCraft due to the green pattern. This 30 something tech suddenly got very excited, thinking I played Mine Craft, but I had to burst his bubble on that. He then launched into telling me that he and his brother ran a side gig helping gamers advance in games by providing digital equipment you can buy at auctions in these game worlds, etc. He went on to say they made a high double $Ks figure last year and all I could think was, "Dude, you need to quit this job and do that full time because I am sure you'd make more with your side gig than what they pay you here.". 8-))
So after being dilated I was sent to a darkened waiting room labeled the "Dilation Room". There was a tv monitor in there and instead of showing a tv show of some kind it ran commercials for this eye doc on a continuous loop. Seems he also owns a "MediSpa" in this complex and they do cosmetic type dermatology stuff........
There was also a slide of the doc next to an eyeball mural located somewhere in the building.....I suppose the lady on the other side of the mural was the artist?
Then a slide came up of the giant Eye Ball statue outside decorated for Halloween, wearing an oversized Witches hat......
So it was finally time to meet the eye doctor. I was surprised that he was a young guy, dressed in tan corduroy pants, a plaid flannel shirt and a red puffer vest. Looked like a hipster employee rather than the owner of this facility.
He extended his hand to me but instead of putting his hand out vertically so I could shake his hand, he held his hand out to me, palm up. I didn't know what to do with this....slap him 5?....spit in his hand?.....What??
So he went on to explain that I had no evidence of diabetic complications in my eyes. yay.
Then he said however, that sometimes when one has cataracts removed(which I had done in 2015)and have artificial IOL lenses implanted, a membrane can develop under the lenses, which can make your vision less than perfect. He explained that they have a quick and easy fix for that-a YAG laser that can zap the membrane and restore your vision to the clearness from when you had the lenses implanted. I had this membrane developing more so in my left eye but the right eye is not far behind in having this condition. It's called a secondary cataract and this is a common complication with an easy fix.
I did have the presence of mind to ask if Medicare covers this procedure. In my case my Medicare Part B will cover this being done as an outpatient procedure with no OOP.
So I am due to go back to the creepy eyeball place in about a week to have the PCO membrane zapped away. Information on this procedure is HERE. Having a laser zapping my eye sort of makes me nervous. Heck, eye doctors/techs have a hard time prying my eyelids open to put drops onto my eyeballs. lol
Let me know if you have had cataract surgery and then needed a posterior capsular opacification procedure performed on your eye(s). How did it go for you? Any complications?
I'll try to get more photos of all those creepy eyeball paintings/prints/murals/watercolors to show y'all in the future.
Sluggy
