An Appointment with THONEH’s Optometrist
Oh, it’s 24th already. And because of this, I had to take a half day leave to see Mr. Yap, the optometrist. While waiting for my turn, I met a guy named Sajif, and we had a chat. He’s wearing RGP lens too. From the way he described his problems, I think he’s a keratoconus patient. And I think doesn’t even know what ‘keratoconus’ is. Anyway, he still can see things and drive with his normal glasses, he just needs to wear contact lens for sports. For me, I can’t see clearly even with my glasses on.
Ok, it’s my turn now, I went in to the room and he tried to fit me with an RGP lens on my left eye. Oh God!! It’s extremely uncomfortable, the lens is rocking and moving whenever I try to blink and I can barely open my eyes. The edge of the lens is sharp and it’s like scratching my eye like crazy. I can’t stop tearing. It’s horrible! After a few minutes, he put on another one on my right eye… very irritating… after about 15 minutes or so. I feel more relieved but it’s still very uncomfortable, there’s no way I’m going to get used to this feeling. And most important of all, my vision is totally blurred. He told me that, after fitting the RGP lens, I become far-sighted. He put some lenses in front of me, tweak here and there and finally I’m able to read chart. Well, I can see clearly, and I noticed that the glare and halo was gone. But the vision is not very stable, whenever I blink, my vision changes. From what I understand, because my cornea is too flat, there’s a big gap in the centre between the lens and my cornea and because of that a lot of bubbles trapped in there. Meaning, they don’t fit properly on my eyes, that’s why they’re rocking. At last, he took off the lenses for me. I felt relieved and disappointed at the same time. Relieved because the lenses were finally out of my eyes, disappointed because the lenses didn’t work quite well for me.
Luckily, he told me that he knew a friend who is practicing ORTHOKERATOLOGY and she might be able to help me in making REVERSE GEOMETRY lenses. He gave me her name card and I’m full of hope again.