Clearing the Fog

Clearing the Fog

Our thread today will be quite unique [and I hope, NOT so boring] because for the longest time, I have to make a personal 'confession' that is indeed more personal than anything else.  Hence, our today, I borrowed this title 'Clearing the Fog' from the Harvard Medical article I was skimming awhile ago.  I realized I owe it to my readership to share my 'confession' because I am hoping that my 'unforgivable' neglect to give importance to the state and health of EYES should NOT happen to you📌📌📌

Now, for my confession.  Since my late teens till to date, I have been wearing prescriptive glasses and all along, my [default] mode was to go to the optical clinic to refract my lens.  And while the cost can be down cheap, my latest pair of eyeglasses a year ago costs approximately $400, NOT CHEAP by local standards but I thought, that would solve my eyesight as I was enduring its degraded state for at at least the last 2 years❌❌❌

And since sometimes I drive for long hauls, like 10 to 12 hour long drives to the countryside, I felt a huge frustration because even with my latest eyeglasses, I realized that my eyesight remained quite impaired [and to my own fault, I kept it to myself, not after keeping that eyesight constraint in obscurity].  My bad, mea culpa❎❎❎

NOT until late this year when I finally stepped out of my comfort zone and [FINALLY] consulted an ophthalmologist who led me to a SHOCKING eye-opener that my eyesight problems went way beyond my being 'nearsighted' but instead, further EYE tests confirmed that my right EYE was very seriously impaired with cataract.  WHICH means, the past years, I was going on long-haul drives with one eye!@#$? I then realized that I was NOT ONLY remiss but I was utterly neglectful of my EYE. Sharing the below recommendations from Kadrmas Eye Care:

• Age 20-29:  Eye checkup at least once this period
• Age 30-39:  Eye checkup at least twice this period
• Age 40-49:  Eye Exam every 2 to 4 years
• Age 50+   :  Annual Eye Exam

Allow me to share one more VERY important lesson I learned:  Our EYE's health does NOT end up by consulting an ophthalmologist BUT instead, we should consult a RETINA SPECIALIST [who is an ophthalmologist too] but he is capable to diagnose if your EYE issues have impacted your RETINA.  My apologies for veering our thread today more into our EYE's health but I realized I owe this to you as much as I owe it to myself❗❗❗