2025 World Championships

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Mark can be proud of himself. Didn’t give in. So we now have to wait to see if he goes ahead with the lens replacement. Sounds to me like he doesn’t need it. If it was me I’d be getting a 2nd and 3rd opinion. I heard him say that he was booked into Optical Express on June 12th. There’s other private hospitals around who perform lens replacement. Might cost a bit more but what the hell.

From what he said to Hazel after the final, it sounds like he's decided not to go ahead with the lens replacement. I used to use daily disposable contacts, they were great, but I can't see well enough to put them in anymore, which is a very annoying irony.

Here's the Award ceremony and Eurosport/TNT PMI with Zhao.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/opvmy...k18avaqjg&dl=0

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From what he said to Hazel after the final, it sounds like he's decided not to go ahead with the lens replacement. I used to use daily disposable contacts, they were great, but I can't see well enough to put them in anymore, which is a very annoying irony.

Here's the Award ceremony and Eurosport/TNT PMI with Zhao.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/opvmy...k18avaqjg&dl=0

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Whenever i wear lenses i use a little hand mirror to aid getting them in and out, makes the process a formality.

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Whenever i wear lenses i use a little hand mirror to aid getting them in and out, makes the process a formality.

Wouldn't work for me mate, they're completely invisible to me. I used them for decades, so was quite adept at putting them in, but in the end my eyes just got so bad I couldn't see what I was doing and kept loosing them, cost me a bloody fortune.

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Wouldn't work for me mate, they're completely invisible to me. I used them for decades, so was quite adept at putting them in, but in the end my eyes just got so bad I couldn't see what I was doing and kept loosing them, cost me a bloody fortune.

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Ok, sounds like you've got some kind of eye condition then ?

Wouldn't know the foggiest about that, touchwood.

My brother in law had eye laser surgery in the late 80s and has never looked back, i'll always naturally be close to a computer/tablet/android screen of some sort so i'm not that bothered about good unaided sight as long as glasses and lenses still work.

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Ok, sounds like you've got some kind of eye condition then ?

Quite a collection actually, Amblyopia and Retinopathy of prematurity (RoP), nystagmus and congenital cataracts. I've won a lot more games of pool than I've lost all the same. Snooker table is simply too big for me though.

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Quite a collection actually, Amblyopia and Retinopathy of prematurity (RoP), nystagmus and congenital cataracts. I've won a lot more games of pool than I've lost all the same. Snooker table is simply too big for me though.

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Sorry to read that PB.

All the best, onwards and upwards.

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Sorry to read that PB.

All the best, onwards and upwards.

Ah, don't worry about it mate, worse things happen at sea.

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Quite a collection actually, Amblyopia and Retinopathy of prematurity (RoP), nystagmus and congenital cataracts. I've won a lot more games of pool than I've lost all the same. Snooker table is simply too big for me though.

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How bad is your Amblyopic eye? With glasses mine was about 20/130. Without glasses I’m guessing about 20/150. When I was trying the contacts out I only put one in my good eye.

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How bad is your Amblyopic eye? With glasses mine was about 20/130. Without glasses I’m guessing about 20/150. When I was trying the contacts out I only put one in my good eye.

Both eyes since birth. But I had a dozen or so operations on my right eye when I was a child to needle the cataract, considered quite barbaric nowadays, but it helped.
This is my latest eye test from a few years ago:



Honestly, it's crazy that I can play at all, but if there's decent lighting, I do OK.

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[Nifty50]

Both eyes since birth. But I had a dozen or so operations on my right eye when I was a child to needle the cataract, considered quite barbaric nowadays, but it helped.
This is my latest eye test from a few years ago:



Honestly, it's crazy that I can play at all, but if there's decent lighting, I do OK.

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Hang in there mate.

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Cheers Nifty. It may seem bad to you, but It's been this way all my life, so it's just normal to me, very inconvenient, but no biggie.

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Cheers Nifty. It may seem bad to you, but It's been this way all my life, so it's just normal to me, very inconvenient, but no biggie.

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Well done mate, great attitude! Salute!!