#optomblr

Anyways.

"Hostile" pt comes in (front desk lady's term) and I see pt and try to soothe the ruffled feathers. Pt has already been seen for current symptoms by ophthalmology practice. Bunch of tests but no cause given and no treatment.

I do different evaluation, figure out the issue can be treated (at least partially) with glasses with prism (different type of lens for muscle misalignment). Pt says they never had any of this stuff done before by other docs. (Lots of docs don't like doing binocular vision testing)

They compliment my jewelry while I'm working to find the right prism for them.

End the encounter with pt telling me about their rodeo wild days when they were young and comparing bird skull jewelry (my earrings to their necklace)

I go out to the manager, set down the pt file and say "sorry, the "hostile" patient likes me, I'm their doctor now."

TL;DR: sometimes people are frustrated/angry because they need help and other's have failed them.

My manager (has a child on some spectrum and is very vocal about child advocacy and resources) was helping tech up a pt (who apparently also has a child with spicy brain). So I guess they were talking about it???

But I didn't know that. So I walk in totally stoked bc this Pt's first trial of custom specialty contact lenses got them seeing 20/20, like on the first try! Bc sometimes I'm good at my job. (Moving on)

So I'm like "how are the contact lenses? :))))"

And they mcfucking respond with "I was just talking to (the manager) about you, 'I bet Dr. (me name) is neurodivergent! She's quirky" (affectionate)

And I'm like "...ahah well um they weren't super big at diagnosing things when I was a kid so I was just called weird. Or yeah, quirky *jazz hands*"

So yeah I'm not officially diagnosed as anything except something that needs an ANXIOUS reflective vest, but apparently *whatever* I am, I am *not* masking it anymore like I did as a child.

(after that we talked about introverts in highly social jobs and how I have to go home and melt in silence for a few hours after work.)

Education: Doctorate of Optometry, bachelor of science (biology), minor in medical ethics/humanities.

Licensed: Therapeutic Optometrist and Glaucoma Specialist

Previously: This blog was my way of ranting and logging my progress through optometry school, so a studyblr.

I'll continue to post about optometry, science, anatomy, and interesting research/articles I find. I might also sprinkle in stuff about books/podcasts I'm experiencing, so I guess a bookblr (or whatever they are called, just an academic blog? But also with memes?)

Feel free to ask me about random eye diseases/disorders for curiosity's sake. I'll answer if I know and research/tell you if I don't. Or about systemic disorders and how they may affect the eye. If you ask for personal medical advice, I'll just tell you to go see your eye/primary physician because I'm not going to telemedicine on here.

My 2¢ on buying glasses on-line.

2¢ on glasses.

Feeling like a fraud today, so retina chapter in Wills Eye.

A friend was talking about it and got me in an emotion.