When it comes to routine eye checkups and other appointments not directly related to my cancer, I become lax.
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 02, 2018
Jane has earned three advanced degrees and had several fulfilling careers as a librarian, rehabilitation counselor and college teacher. Presently she does freelance writing. Her articles include the subjects of hearing loss and deafness, service dogs and struggling with cancer. She has been a cancer survivor since 2010.
She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
I was receiving a stern and deserved lecture from my eye doctor. “It’s been too long since you have been here.”She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
“Oh, two years,” I replied. Since I waited five years before that appointment, I was actually proud of myself.
“No, it has been three and a half years,” he corrected me. Time does fly when you are having fun and I must have been having a lot of it! I deserved this lecture and knew it. I have a family history of glaucoma and the beginning of cataracts. I have some vision insurance and live down the street from the office, so that is not an excuse, either. The main reason I went in today was because I had read that chemo causes cataracts. Since I had been on various chemos for eight years, I wanted to check it out.
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