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You might not ever think about your eyes until the day you have a problem with them. That’s true of many parts of the body but eyes, in particular, seem to provoke a head-in-the-sand response. Perhaps you’re merrily going around blanking people because you can’t see across the road but don’t want to go for an eye test. Or perhaps, like Lady Caroline in Succession, you simply can’t stand the thought of 'face eggs’. 

Whether or not you’re short-sighted, you ought to be going for at least semi-regular eye tests, as they can pick up on all sorts of things that are not necessarily sight-related, from diabetes to high blood cholesterol to brain tumours. Happily, it’s usually way less serious than that.

At the beginning of last year, when I was on adjuvant chemotherapy, my eyesight began deteriorating rapidly. I remember ordering a coffee and the barista was so blurry, I couldn’t actually tell if he had a beard or was wearing a face covering. It was extremely un…