On 2020-07-08 2:40 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 1:53:01 PM UTC-4, wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 10:35:00 AM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>>>
>>> My glasses would fog up from the mask too but since my cataract
>>> surgery no more glasses. I didn't know I had cataracts until I went
>>> to a different eyeglass place and was examined by an Opthamologist.
>>> Opticians mainy sell glasses, they don't examine eyes.
>>>
>> Optometrists examine eyes, opticians grind the lenses, (my oldest brother
>> was one) and Ophthalmologists treat eye diseases.
>
> My ophthalmologist examines my eyes. He does the refraction to get
> the prescription for my glasses, dilates my pupils and examines my
> retinas.
>


I have seen two different ophthalmologists over the years. The first one
one was a lump on my lower eyelid that turned out to have been a
chilazion that had to be surgically removed. Not a big deal. He froze
the area, stuck some sort of device there to hold my eyelid in place and
then poked around to remove the hard cyst. It was disconcerting to hear
and feel the scritch scritch scritch as he dug it out.

The second one was about a fatty deposit on the side of my eyeball. He
monitored it for a couple years, sent me for a couple CTscans to allow
him to measure it. It did not change in all that time, so the annoying
feeling there is attributed to the chilazion and the loss of the tear
duct when it was removed.

I see an optometrist once a year to check my visual acuity. I was in
about three weeks ago and I just got my new glasses two days ago. Nice
to have nice clean, unscratched lenses and the new prescription. There
was no dilation this time. Due to Covid19 and protective masks she
cannot see the retina so they go high tech and use the retinal scanner.