My recent VA experience

[unhappycamper]

I joined the VA last November because of eye and ear and hip and knee and foot problems.

My eyesight has been declining for a number of years now, and I can't hear shit because of loud explosions. (Try four months of a fire base with a 15~20 meter hill with a battery of 8 inch howitzers on the top. Toss in a really big explosion from the Chu Lai airbase ammo dump going up in a really big mushroom cloud in Tet of 1968. Automatic weapons, rockets, mortars and RPGs did not help. )

I had my first appointment about three weeks ago with my primary physician. About three days after that I had my first appointment, with the eye clinic last Friday. The young (everybody looks young to me) resident gave me the best eye exam I have ever had in my life! Period.

It turns out that I have cataracts. The one in my left eye has covered most of the cornea (asymmetrical) and my right eye isn't nearly as bad. After some discussion she went to talk to her boss; both of them came back into the room in about five minutes. The boss did the cataract stuff again and said she would refer me to the cataract clinic for further treatment.

Wowsa!

I hope things go equally well with the hearing.