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Jackdaw33 | 17:04 Mon 15th Oct 2018 | Body & Soul
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Just received a letter from my new (and former) optician to tell me that after careful consideration they will no longer be offering eye tests. I did not make this up!
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How can they be new and former ?
you will get them free in Specsavers
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I was a new customer and now I am an ex-customer. Does that make sense?
How will they determine a prescription without eye tests?
Are they changing to a chip shop?
are you sure you've read it right?
Are they a large chain or an independent or a domiciliary visiting optician?

There must be a reason.
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Independent as far as I am aware. The woman who runs it diagnosed me with severe cataracts then proceeded to prescribe me totally unsuitable glasses.
Better off elsewhere then Jack.
Are you sure they don't mean that they will no longer be offering YOU eye tests but will offer them to everyone else?
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Too bleeding true, Mamya.
Did you make a big fuss about your totally useless spectacles?
You would think that if you have "severe cataracts" she would have referred you to an ophthalmologist.
Or at least offered the loan of a lifejacket.
You probably need your cataracts removing before having another eye test.Either go to another optician for advice or see your doctor to make a hospital appointment.
get your sight double-checked somewhere else to be sure she's right about the cataracts; if you've got them, get your name down for an operation. (Two, actually.) This is said to be the NHS's most successful operation, and I recommend it.
Lol@ douglas!
With you Ellie may :)

Seriously though you shouldn't you have been referred on for cataracts?
// How can they be new and former ?//
it is a like a Hardy novel, simples

you know when elizabeth jane comes back as peggy sue
or lulu-bell and then they find that in fact the original died and Mum had another just to er fill in or something

(some years since I read it)

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