I phoned a behavioural optometrist & she will see DD tomorrow; isn't direct action great

[Katymac]

I googled
I phoned
She offered the appointment - I accepted
We are seeing her tomorrow

Now I just need to get time off work

So much for needing a referral for a second opinion

Oh I hope you get somewhere. Keep pushing, you are doing well.

She emailed tonight to see if the GP had been in touch.......the GP hasn't

I asked if I should hassle the GP on Monday.....awaiting reply

I have a reply - I definitely have to phone the GP on Monday & phone her back if I get no-where

Well I got through after about 20 minutes on the phone.

I asked the GP to phone back after surgery.

I got a phone call at about 2:30. The GP hasn't read the Opticians FAX yet (it was sent on Thursday) I should ring back on Wednesday.

Why would I need the appointment on 2nd June moved forward & it's a waste of time & money to go privately & no she won't refer me to Moorfields

Could anyone tell me how to react to this?

This is great

"If you imagine looking at a single object in the
middle of a room, there is a visual impression of the rest of the room, though
it is not seen in fine detail. This is called our ?peripheral field?, or ?field of
vision? and is received by the receptors outside the macula. It is very
important to our perception of the world around us and enables us to
navigate through it. This peripheral vision can be measured by mapping out
what is called the visual field, which simply means the total area that can be
seen by one or both eyes in any particular position. The outer visual field is
very sensitive to movement. When you move through a crowded environment
you don?t bump into things, even though you do not look directly at them.
Similarly, when you run up a flight of stairs you don?t usually look at each
step directly. The visual field gives us remarkable sensitivity to movement
which accounts for the tremendous mobility that some children have despite
profound loss of central vision. (When a child is moving through a room,stationary objects are moving in visual terms.)"

I must send it to DD's school