poliphilo

Goodbye August. Hello Autumn.

I was the hospital yesterday for the follow-up to some eye tests I had done a month ago. The chap I saw explained that I have a condition that could lead to something that isn't macular degeneration but might just as well be. However it seems it t's getting better all by itself- and I walked away from the consultation feeling twenty years younger.

While I was waiting to be seen I couldn't help overhearing a doctor in a nearby cubicle trying to explain to a woman who wasn't listening that he was an eye specialist and she'd have to see someone else about whatever it was she was bending his ear about. I could hear from his tone of voice that his patience was being tried. "you're going round in circles," he said as she started up again about her eyelids.

I don't particularly fear physical deterioration (though I'd rather hold the tide back for as long as possible), but what I really don't want is to turn into the sort of silly old fool for whom allowances have to be made.....

You know how it goes.....

"He can't help it." (Pitying sigh.) "It's his age....."