I had the test at Specsavers as planned. It's my first time having it done there and whilst the staff were brilliant and I couldn't fault them at all, they're really not set up very well for this at all. The machines are basically in the waiting room - there's a low (maybe 3 foot) wall between the machines and other patients but you can here everything going on so its a bit distracting. There's also other machines in the same area so people were coming and going having other tests too.
As I said though, the staff were excellent and went out of their way to do as much as they could for me. I really struggled with the test this time. I don't know if it was just because I couldn't concentrate with everything else going on around me or the headache I had (later that day it turned into a full blown head cold so could have been that) but it's the most stressful test I've done so far.
The lady doing the tests showed me the printouts afterwards and interestingly I'd missed hardly any lights and the ones I did weren't in the peripheral of my vision but I had clicked a couple of times when there weren't any lights, which can also be a reason for failure I think. As I say, I'm not sure what was going on that day but I really didn't find it easy at all but good to know that generally my actual vision is still doing ok.
I got a letter from the DVLA later that week to say that there's a nine week delay on medical inquiries so I've still not heard anything yet but what will be, will be.
Next week I'm back off to London to see Professor Webster and I'm hoping they may have some results from my genetic testing, watch this space!!
