September 23, 2011

• more good news. . . . .

  I have lots of good news to share today.  A few weeks ago, I reported how the local eye doctors office made a  mistake in their billing, and for a while it looked like I would have to pay for their mistake.  Dr Falconer talked to the billing people, however, and when I checked this morning prior to my appointment, the charge had been dropped.   And after the appointment, there was no further charge, so I reckon I dodged that particular bullet.

  It gets better.  My glaucoma is much better–pressure is down to 16–it had been around 20 the last visit, and almost 30 prior to treatment.  BTW, the kind of glaucoma I have can make you go blind and you get no warning symptoms. I had been stressing out over the cost of eye drops for my glaucoma–something like $200 for 3 ml.  I found another drug that should work as well and is available in generic for $70 for 3 ml.  A large savings, to say the least.

  This is huge good news, as the credit card I use for my business expenses is uncomfortably close to being  maxed out.

  And my vision is SO much better.  My left eye is now 20/15 uncorrected, and the right eye is 20/25. My uncorrected vision before the cataracts happened was about 20/800. I still have some blur in the right eye, which is normal for stage four cataract surgery, but last night for the first time in almost ten years, I was able to trim the facial hair on the right side of my face.  I was not able to see it before.

  Oh, and this is even better.  It seems that the implant will almost completely cure my astigmatism.  This is an amazingly big hairy deal for me. 

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