Its not fair, I can't help my terrible eyesight!

thistledome

Poor old fatpiggy! Came on the Praise, Vent and Warnings board for a good old moan and gets shot down in flames!

Some people don't have any limbs so all of us with at least one limb should be grateful and never moan, eh? Take that argument to it's extreme and you could say that nobody who's alive should moan because they're better off than the dead.

As someone who previously enjoyed excellent eyesight (and shamelessly took it for granted), I can sympathise with anyone who has a problem seeing. It's horrible, not being able to see properly. I'd give anything to turn black the clock and have good vision again. Glasses are very expensive and easily broken or lost. Plus, I hate having these things stuck on my face 24/7. You can't see out of them properly in the rain, you can't turn your head upside down to look under furniture (for example) without them flipping up and rendering you temporarily blind, can't give the dog a good old cuddle without him knocking them off, can no longer do a pleasurable hobby of intricate needlework......etc etc.

At least we can have the pleasure of a good old moan!:T

tonycottee

McKneff wrote: »

If you are able to drive, you are lucky, you must virtually, with corrective glasses, have 20/20 vision.




If you wear glasses and they work, you don't have sight problems.....

Good point. I said something similar to a guy in a wheelchair. If he can get from one place to another then he obviously doesn't have mobility issues. Some people!

lostinrates

duchy wrote: »

I'm out ! When someone compares supplying a wheelchair to supplying back up glasses when lenses are usually worn the thread has degenerated beyond the point of no return !

I sometimes use walking aids ( not always) and have been a wheelchair user in the past. My husband is a glasses wearer. I can certainly cope better for a few days without mobility help as a non worker ( due to health condition) than he could without glasses ( he gave up contacts a while ago to cut costs. And long term as a household we are more facilitated to be independent by him being able to see than be being able to get around.

missbiggles1

lostinrates wrote: »

I sometimes use walking aids ( not always) and have been a wheelchair user in the past. My husband is a glasses wearer. I can certainly cope better for a few days without mobility help as a non worker ( due to health condition) than he could without glasses ( he gave up contacts a while ago to cut costs. And long term as a household we are more facilitated to be independent by him being able to see than be being able to get around.

I've agreed with you both so need to point out that Duchy was talking about "back up" glasses, not any sight correction aids at all.

lostinrates

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I've agreed with you both so need to point out that Duchy was talking about "back up" glasses, not any sight correction aids at all.

Dh's has two pairs of glasses, There is little doubt he'd be in big trouble without them. He has his frames reglazed until the opticians refuse to do them, and his HAVE to be thinned! they will not fit in frames without them. He keeps one pair for 'best' and one pair ( which ever is cheapest / less fancy./gets scratched for things like gardening and stuff, its too risky to just have one pair and rely on it. With out back up he'd be unable to work, travel safely, anything really. His vision is really pretty poor! . With glasses his life is
Utterly normal. Without......helpless duckling. That's the pinnacle of all successful treatment / correction aid really though, right? Doesn't make it less worthwhile, just mKes it good. . But one pair of glasses for those with very poor vision isn't sufficient. Whether its lenses or a second pair of glasses, you need something.

missbiggles1

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh's has two pairs of glasses, There is little doubt he'd be in big trouble without them. He has his frames reglazed until the opticians refuse to do them, and his HAVE to be thinned! they will not fit in frames without them. He keeps one pair for 'best' and one pair ( which ever is cheapest / less fancy./gets scratched for things like gardening and stuff, its too risky to just have one pair and rely on it. With out back up he'd be unable to work, travel safely, anything really. His vision is really pretty poor! . With glasses his life is
Utterly normal. Without......helpless duckling. That's the pinnacle of all successful treatment / correction aid really though, right? Doesn't make it less worthwhile, just mKes it good. . But one pair of glasses for those with very poor vision isn't sufficient. Whether its lenses or a second pair of glasses, you need something.

I certainly have several pairs of glasses and can do very little without them as I'm very shortsighted (although not as much as the OP, fortunately). Before they became so much cheaper, I just kept my old ones as spares and worked on that basis for decades.

Now I can buy them online for less than £70, I'm building up quite a wardrobe and even, sometimes, colour match them to what I'm wearing.:o

lostinrates

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I certainly have several pairs of glasses and can do very little without them as I'm very shortsighted (although not as much as the OP, fortunately). Before they became so much cheaper, I just kept my old ones as spares and worked on that basis for decades.

Now I can buy them online for less than £70, I'm building up quite a wardrobe and even, sometimes, colour match them to what I'm wearing.:o

You are very lucky to be able to get them for such a price.

With complicated prescriptions, even with cost saving measures, they really are more expensive. . If they were seventy for DH, he two would have a wardrobe full. Luckily he doesn't need them every singly year, but they are very, very much more than that. Sigh.

fierystormcloud

fairy_lights wrote: »

Just because some people have it worse doesn't mean the OP can't have a moan, this is a board for venting after all. It's not the misery Olympics.

thistledome wrote: »

Poor old fatpiggy! Came on the Praise, Vent and Warnings board for a good old moan and gets shot down in flames!

Some people don't have any limbs so all of us with at least one limb should be grateful and never moan, eh? Take that argument to it's extreme and you could say that nobody who's alive should moan because they're better off than the dead.

As someone who previously enjoyed excellent eyesight (and shamelessly took it for granted), I can sympathise with anyone who has a problem seeing. It's horrible, not being able to see properly. I'd give anything to turn black the clock and have good vision again. Glasses are very expensive and easily broken or lost. Plus, I hate having these things stuck on my face 24/7. You can't see out of them properly in the rain, you can't turn your head upside down to look under furniture (for example) without them flipping up and rendering you temporarily blind, can't give the dog a good old cuddle without him knocking them off, can no longer do a pleasurable hobby of intricate needlework......etc etc.

At least we can have the pleasure of a good old moan!:T

I agree. I am sick and tired of people having a go at people who are moaning and venting on here!

That is what the board is for FGS!

And then someone comes on and says 'aren't we allowed to moan about them moaning?!' Not sure if that was tongue in cheek. (I would hope it was and that the poster was not being serious.)

I feel very sorry for the OP. I am blessed with great eyesight, (although I am still in my mid 30s,) but I know several people who have issues, and they always end up paying £250-£400 for glasses.

Stupid question, but I wonder why you have to pay for glasses and dental when you don't have to pay for anything else to do with your health? (Except prescriptions of course.) It can be a nasty shock to suddenly have to pay £200 to £500 for dental or glasses.

fierystormcloud

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh's has two pairs of glasses, There is little doubt he'd be in big trouble without them. He has his frames reglazed until the opticians refuse to do them, and his HAVE to be thinned! they will not fit in frames without them. He keeps one pair for 'best' and one pair ( which ever is cheapest / less fancy./gets scratched for things like gardening and stuff, its too risky to just have one pair and rely on it. With out back up he'd be unable to work, travel safely, anything really. His vision is really pretty poor! .

With glasses his life is utterly normal. Without......helpless duckling. That's the pinnacle of all successful treatment / correction aid really though, right? Doesn't make it less worthwhile, just mKes it good. . But one pair of glasses for those with very poor vision isn't sufficient. Whether its lenses or a second pair of glasses, you need something.

That made me laugh. :rotfl:

Sorry - I mean in an 'awwwwwww' kind of way. Poor guy!

I do feel so sorry for anyone with eye struggles.

fed_up_and_stressed

Morglin wrote: »

Bearing in mind the ongoing arguments about whether homeopathic remedies actually work,, or whether they are just placebos, I cannot see them ever being free!

But, as wheelchairs etc., hearing aids and other things to help physical disabilities are provided free (as are things like Methadone, nicotine replacement and anti alcohol medication), then there may be a case for things that help with vision impairment also being funded to some degree.

Can't see it happening though.

Lin

I had to buy my own powerchair (£8000 new) ... Nhs would only pay for an indoor one only and as i work an indoor / outdoor model was a necessity