HOW I STARTED WEARING PHOTOCHROMIC LENSES (AIR-CLINIC)

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My last hospital visit was on the account of my eyes getting reder than normal. I had lived with this predicament for quite a long time and didn’t see it as a problem.

There were few occasions where some medical personnels made reference to my eyes being red, I ignored them since I was not feeling any pains and I could read clearly.

I never liked to wear glasses, at some point in my life, I vowed that I will never wear an eyes glass.

There are different reasons why I never wanted to wear glasses, I didn’t like the way I looked on glasses, I was teased as a young boy as having big eye bulb; so wearing of an eye glass was like enlarging my eyes, and lastly I feel more comfortable without glasses.

A visit to my uncle who is a doctor changed the whole story, this uncle of mine is so meticulous, he shows extreme care about minute details. He noticed my eyes were unnecessarily turning red and requested I should go for eye test.

He directed that I should go to see Dr. Gbenga for test, first thing tomorrow morning, when I arrived the clinic, Dr. Gbenga encouraged me on the need to wear glasses against my wish, I returned with the result and he instructed that I go for second opinion which I did by visiting a general hospital and the experience of the later was nothing to write home about.

The two results corresponded in the glass prescription (they both prescribe photochromic lense), there were also little variations, the variations were basically in the charges, while the general hospital was charging less than #10,000 (for card, frame, lense, eye drop and consultation fees), the private clinic has a huge bill of #36,500. At the end of the day, I got my photochromic lense from the private clinic.

Photochromic lenses are optical lenses that darken on exposure to specific types of light of sufficient intensity, most commonly ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In the absence of activating light the lenses return to their clear state. Ref2