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“Don’t worry,” said the optometrist. “It’s not that you have glaucoma, just that we need to keep an eye on it.”
I’d like to report that he chuckled at his sight-related pun. Instead, the young optometrist flashed the concerned but understanding look you become used to receiving once you are over 60.
The medical profession has taken a collective look at me and decided I am about to fall apart. Every doctor and specialist I see is convinced that the author of my demise will be the disease in which they happen to have expertise.
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