So for years now Ive suffered a problem with one of my eyes. I’m short sighted anyway, but in the lest few years my vision has got worse. Ive been sent from optician to Royal Eye Hospital to Neurology for brain scans and still they come up with nothing and leave me to it. So I book myself in at a small village, high street optician and try and get it sorted once and for all. I wasnt expecting the best eye test ive ever had - but I got one. An hour and a half of every test imaginable and some answers to the question I had been asking for a while. We all have floaters in our eyes I know that - but strangely I was delighted to hear my optician say “Whooaa.. thats a Guinness Book a Records floater in your eye…!!” Apparently, all these problems Ive had for so long seem to come down to a massive floater. The fact that nothing can be done about it almost doesnt matter now that i finally have an answer and have had a thorough test. My question is, why when I have been to High Street chains of opticians like Dolland and Aitchison and Specsavers, could none of them have told me what a small independent one did? Why did their eye tests last no more than 15 minutes? Shouldnt there be some control over how these people run their essential medical trades? We put our trust in them and without knowing it can be let down. Suffice to say that if youre in Bookham looking for an optician, try Donner Optometrists on Church Road and try and get an appointment with Mrs Alexander. You wont regret it.
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