Thread: Piss Poor Nite Vision

Some good advice in this thread. Starting and ending with… Go see an optometrist. It is the only “correct” answer.

A couple of examples of correctable problems have cropped up in my family/friends, including a shocker night vision problem for my best mate. He was being a pillock and keeping quiet about the fact that he couldn’t see properly, and his wife wasn’t strong-willed enough to challenge him about his bloody awful driving at night.

He came to visit us and one night we drove into town to collect pizzas. He drove cos I was mid way through servicing my truck. He was kind of unwilling which I thought was odd. On the back road (twisty, dark) he was slowing right down for all moderate corners, really bad. When a truck approached from round a blind bend with very bright headlamps, my old mate just about pulled up to a dead stop. Not good. Righto buddy, what’s going on? You’re driving as if you can’t farkin’ see and giving me the shits!

I got on his case and he fessed up and went to see the eye doctor. Turns out he had cataracts. He has the type associated with steroid meds which he has taken for years due to arthritis. Surgery was 100% successful and I have agreed he can drive into town next time to prove it.

Go see the optometrist.