A sharp intake of breath...

I swear I could almost feel our credit card "wince" when Adrian paid the bill at the opticians on Tuesday ~ a little over £1,000 in total for our four new pairs of glasses 😲  To be fair the bulk of that was for my new specs, which are always expensive with the lenses that I have 😏

Neither of our prescriptions had changed very much at all, so in theory we could have just carried on with the specs that we already had.  However, I have two pairs so that I can alternate between them (I wear glasses all the time) and one pair had a scratch right across the middle of one of the lenses so I thought I might just as well have the new prescription put in them.  Rather than just replacing the lenses in my other old pair, I decided to have a new frame as well which in the scheme of things really wasn't the expensive part!  Adrian, likewise, had had his old glasses for a number of years and they were looking a tad battered hence his two new pairs.

We had our eye examination a couple of weeks ago and whilst Adrian's was generally okay, mine threw up a couple of things *sigh*  My eyes in general are healthy enough but the optomotrist told me that I have a freckle on the iris of my right eye.  I can't really recall a time when I didn't have that little speck there, to be honest, but wasn't aware that it was actually a freckle.  She said that she sees them regularly and they are pretty common, just like having freckles anywhere ~ I certainly have them elsewhere about my person!  She told me that it was certainly there on my last eye examination a couple of years ago, but their more up-to-date equipment has shown it in much clearer detail.  Because it has now been shown to be a freckle she wants to monitor it for a while to ensure that it doesn't change, in much the same way that one would keep an eye on freckles or moles anywhere on one's body.

Slightly more worrying is another issue that the examination showed up ~ I am apparently in the very early stages of developing cataracts.  To be honest I haven't noticed any difference to my vision and the optomotrist said that it will most likely be a number of years before I do.  So fingers crossed that I won't need cataract surgery for some time to come 🤞

I had my 65th birthday last Saturday ~ the joys of getting older, eh 😒