Getting Old Is A Full-Time Job
Reader's Digest India|January 2024
“YOU'RE A CANDIDATE for glaucoma”, the optometrist told me the other day. ‘Candidate’ sounds rather grand, as if I’m in the running for a PhD. I wondered if, like a university degree, I could abandon my candidacy, but, alas, glaucoma apparently runs its own race.
Richard Glover
Getting Old Is A Full-Time Job

“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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