woods38 wrote:Thanks, going to the eye doctor and my regular doctor for checkups are on my list of things to do this month.
Some visual disturbances can be signs of true surgical emergencies. E.g., a detaching retina can produce visual disturbances before it goes. You haven't given much details about your visual disturbance, and this is not the appropriate place to diagnose the problem anyhow. But it might be a good idea to call the opthalmologist and describe your symptoms and let them make the call as to whether it can be delayed until later in the month.
My best man at my wedding many years ago is an opthalmologist, and the judge who married me is a good friend. I introduced the two before the ceremony because my judge friend was describing visual disturbances which he planned to take care of as soon as he returned from a Mexico vacation. Luckily, he spoke to my best man and had surgery the next day, which saved his vision. He would have almost certainly been blinded if went horseback riding in Mexico. He later told me that he met another judge who lost his eyesight in the very same way.
Years later, my secretary described similar symptoms to me while complaining that the emergency room doctor had sent her home without treatment for her visual disturbance. I called my opthalmologist friend immediately, and she too needed immediate surgery to save her eyesight. Her outcome was not so good because she had a delay in treatment.
Still later, I was involved in the handling of a legal case where a prison doctor ignored such symptoms and the prisoner lost his eyesight in the eye as a result of the delay. That was sad and expensive.
So I react to your statements with a background of caution in this area.
