About 2 1/2-3 years ago I was having a lot of trouble with glare and started wearing polarising sun glasses whenever the sun was low. Then last August I was due an eye checkup, but I put it off a week as we were going on holiday. A few days into our holiday New Zealand went into Level 4 lockdown and the optometrists shut. By November, my eyes were really weird. I had transient blind spots; I was perpetually cleaning my glasses as it felt like they were dirty; I was seeing shimmery arcs from time to time. In early December, optometrists were allowed to re-open and I showed up on day 3 :-) To my considerable surprise, I was told I had early-onset fast-growing cataracts in both eyes. Both my parents have had cataracts so it seemed likely I'd get them one day, but I wasn't expecting them at 45!
