Myopia and Pathology

[kchan99]

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Are there any people in pathology who are really nearsighted, as with >-6 diopters?

 

[b&ierstiefel]

i'm a -5 in both eyes. which is pretty bad.

i've entertained the thought of getting lasik done. but if for some reason, if things don't go as expected and i turn blind, i'm really screwed 🙂

 

[kchan99]

I had one eye doctor who talked to me about lasik at every appointment. I stopped going to that office last year because of that.

I heard about people needing 2nd procedures years after lasik.

For myopia >-8, lasik is usually not possible because the depth of the "incisions" into the cornea would exceed the usual thickness of the cornea, unless someone wants an incomplete correction. Someone with unusually thin corneas may get their eyes messed up (perforation) by lasik.

Karin

P.S. I was told by an optician to not wear contact lenses for a day or two before refraction if you want to get an accurate prescription, esp. if you have astigmatism. He said that even soft contacts distort the shape of the cornea.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

good to know...go figure...i have astigmatism too.

assessment: 27 yo near-sighted male whose eyes are whack.
plan: look into microscope and worsen vision.

 

[deschutes]

I'm 9 in one eye and 10 in the other. No I'm not kidding.

Contacts: na-ah. I'm grumpy enough when I wake to not want to poke at my eye every morning. So only on big-time social occasions - and even then not at that conference when I found myself to be the age of most of the delegates' children.

You know what else I've wondered?
Colour-blindness in pathologists! What are the numbers for that??
I talked about it with my prof and he said there were two people in the department, excellent pathogists, who only had problems with the Congo Red.

Anyone found a way to not get seasick when looking at slides?

 

[yaah]

assessment: 27 yo near-sighted male whose eyes are whack.

That sounds like a really ineffective personal ad.

My eyes are bad too, I thought. Not as bad as the rest of you, I guess. I'm about -4 and -3. This has been pretty constant since about high school.

I wear contacts about half the time, glasses half the time. I often prefer, on days when I have a lot of scope time, to wear contacts, but it changes. Sometimes glasses are better, then I just take them off. On an incidental note, sometimes when I wear glasses it just makes me more tired and I have less energy. I don't know why that is. In chem lab in college contacts were forbidden, and I would have to wear glasses and by the end of the lab I was usually exhausted. Maybe it was the fumes, but it happened in med school too. But during my clinical years I started wearing glasses more because contacts get irritating after about 10-12 hours, and some of that disappeared. I still get somewhat tired though.

deschutes the seasickness will probably improve with time. I don't think the scopolamine patches help much. It also helps more when you drive the scope and don't have to watch someone else.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

My eyes are bad too, I thought. Not as bad as the rest of you, I guess. I'm about -4 and -3.

OK yaah, I think you need a cookie. 🙂

 

[edamame]

I had Lasik one year before I started med school -
I think both eyes were at least -4, with astigmatism as well.
Woke up the next morning after surgery and could see the alarm clock -
threw away the contacts and glasses with glee...
no problems since, even after spending a year on the scope!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I had Lasik one year before I started med school -
I think both eyes were at least -4, with astigmatism as well.
Woke up the next morning after surgery and could see the alarm clock -
threw away the contacts and glasses with glee...
no problems since, even after spending a year on the scope!

See, my buddy just had lasik a month ago and pretty much described the same thing. I'm so tempted to get it. Your story is actually the 6th lasik success story I've heard in the last few months.

 

[yaah]

I like to wear my glasses sometimes because they make me look smarter. 😉 If I had Lasik surgery I might have to be one of those really lame people who has glasses with clear uncorrected lenses. That, I daresay, would be pathetic.

Actually, I don't know. I don't mind glasses so much. I do think though if I did the Lasik surgery I would be very happy not having to deal with glasses, contacts, being blind, etc.

I first was told I needed glasses about in 6th or 7th grade, but only for distances. Of course I never wore them because I thought I looked like a geek. Only now do I realize that geekiness is cool. I was a typical 13 year old, worried that someone would see me in my glasses and laugh. For some reason I guess that was supposed to bother me? Now I realize that was stupid. Who cares if people laugh?

For, as Hemingway would say, It is in the wearing of the spectacles that one obtains enlightenment. The clearer boards. The beautiful girl at the window with the hair spilling over her shoulders, and oh, how the sunlight streams off her face. The viewing of the old man on the bench, offering scraps to the ducks so that they might look at him and say, 'You are my friend. You are my friend.' The subtleties of the crinkled teacher's face as she offers stories of the past, the weathered face of the teacher speaking to the past, and times of joy, times of passion when she would summer at the lake with the boy with the rippling arms....

Ah, literature.

 

[Fermata]

Hemingway sucks.

That is all.

 

[smellycat]

man i'm thinking of lasix. -7, -8.

 

[yaah]

Hemingway sucks.

That is all.

How about my impression? I thought it was clever. It's easy to make fun of Hemingway. I was also thinking of how Steinbeck or Stephen King might have written that...But at the end of the Steinbeck someone would have to be dead (tragically and needlessly, but very symbolically, of course) and at the end of the Stephen King I would have to be sightless, bleeding out the eyes, and possessed by the spirit of a deceased psychotic 12 year old named Charlotte. The glasses, of course, would have different meanings.

In the Steinbeck version the glasses would represent the American pioneer farmer as he struggled to reach westward. In Stephen King the glasses would just be evil.

 

[Fermata]

I never liked King books so I've only read a few.

Steinbeck is not my cup of tea.

I don't really like Hemingway BUT I've checked out "The Sun Also Rises" and his complete short stories from the library. Challenging my prejudices. 😀
The short stories aren't that bad.

It's odd though. I'm not a fan of Hawthorne's books but I like his short stories. Maybe Hemingway will be the same way.

I doubt it though.

Hemingway is way too mastubatory.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

This conversation is way above me. The last novel I read was Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.

 

[yaah]

Ah, Theodor Geisel.

I do not like them with too much poop.
I do not like when they make me jump through a hoop.
I do not like them when they cry.
I do not like them when they complain and sigh.
I do not like those patients on the floor!
When I see them I head right for the door!

Now live people are nice and often fine,
But when they are patients they like to whine!
So we get them right down to the morgue,
And then...oh well, nothing rhymes with morgue!

 

[gungho]

Had LASIK almost 4 yr ago-was -3.5. Doing well, maybe slipped just a tad, but still don't require correction. Presbyopia slipping up on me, tho.

Always been partial to Tom Swift and Hardy Boys but draw the line at Nancy Drew.

 

[Brian Pavlovitz]

You know what else I've wondered?
Colour-blindness in pathologists! What are the numbers for that??
I talked about it with my prof and he said there were two people in the department, excellent pathogists, who only had problems with the Congo Red.

Anyone found a way to not get seasick when looking at slides?

Hmmm. I thought my eyes were bad, too: -3.0/-3.5 with astigmatism AND red/green deficiency! I did cytology for about 5 years, so I guess it didn't matter much. I remember when I was first learning to do a WBC differential that I couldn't "see" the red granules of the eosinophil--I just had to go on how the granules "looked"-- but I really don't seem to have too much trouble. That is, except for picking out shirts and pants that go well together! ("...you're wearing THAT shirt with THOSE pants? What color do you think they are...?"). I actually seem to only have trouble with certain greens more often than reds.

I concur about the seasickness--it will go away with time, and is much better if you drive the scope.