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Hi all,
I'm in the application process right now for Canada and UK and I have one issue that I'm concerned about. It concerns my eyesight, I searched through the forums for anything related to this and I couldn't find anything. Basically, my problem is that I have a condition in my left eye called amblyopia, aka "Lazy Eye". I can see fine with it, but its blurred and small letters and writing are pretty much a no go for me. The good thing is, my right eye is perfectly fine and I in fact don't even wear glasses. I know it sounds strange that I don't need corrective lenses but the way lazy eye goes is basically that my right eye does all the work and my left eye is well...lazy. I can drive and read and eveything. Now the reason this concerns me is because there are requirements for each specific eye (ie right eye must be correctible to so and so...left eye to so and so etc etc.). So will my left eye bar me from entry even though my right eye is perfectly fine.
I wasn't really worried about this until my dad mentioned that it may be a problem for me getting in. But on the flip side, I hadn't really thought about it because about 7 years ago, when I was leaving high school, I applied to RMC and I was accepted (I turned it down at the time though for personal reasons)....so up until now I figured to myself that it wasn't a big deal since I had already been accepted once, and I've had this condition my entire life.
To get to my point, will this be a problem for me now? Does anyone know people in the CF with Lazy Eye or have it themselves? Any help would be great.
I'm in the application process right now for Canada and UK and I have one issue that I'm concerned about. It concerns my eyesight, I searched through the forums for anything related to this and I couldn't find anything. Basically, my problem is that I have a condition in my left eye called amblyopia, aka "Lazy Eye". I can see fine with it, but its blurred and small letters and writing are pretty much a no go for me. The good thing is, my right eye is perfectly fine and I in fact don't even wear glasses. I know it sounds strange that I don't need corrective lenses but the way lazy eye goes is basically that my right eye does all the work and my left eye is well...lazy. I can drive and read and eveything. Now the reason this concerns me is because there are requirements for each specific eye (ie right eye must be correctible to so and so...left eye to so and so etc etc.). So will my left eye bar me from entry even though my right eye is perfectly fine.
I wasn't really worried about this until my dad mentioned that it may be a problem for me getting in. But on the flip side, I hadn't really thought about it because about 7 years ago, when I was leaving high school, I applied to RMC and I was accepted (I turned it down at the time though for personal reasons)....so up until now I figured to myself that it wasn't a big deal since I had already been accepted once, and I've had this condition my entire life.
To get to my point, will this be a problem for me now? Does anyone know people in the CF with Lazy Eye or have it themselves? Any help would be great.
