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Legally Blind
My mum went to the hospital for an eye check-up today. Took her a while to find the eye clinic, the place isn’t signposted very well, and you would think semiotics would be of the utmost consideration for a place like a hospital.
She’d been waiting at least 18 months for the appointment so she was kind of anxious to get it over with. After a couple of hours she got the all-clear, but not after they effectively paralyzed her eyes to dilate the pupils - it looks very strange, let me tell you, like Marilyn Manson-style contact lenses or something. And it was only after they did this that they asked her if she drove to get there (she didn’t) because she would be legally blind and unable to drive for at least four hours until the drops wore off. A fat lot of good that would have done if she had to be somewhere and her only method of transport was her car, if she had one.
Mon 14 Jan 2002 at 22:55 ·
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