I can empathise with your aunty, Di!
The thing is, over the last few years we have got busier and busier - an optician from a village a few miles away has closed and we seem to be getting his patients filtering through...and the amount of verbal recommendations we hear from new people! Plus we advertise on local radio....so even on non-clinic days there is plenty to do! And of course we are still without Louise for now (our other optom who is currently on maternity leave, she was full time - our locum, Anne is P/T but she has joined us properly now as part of the team
) - if and when Louise returns, there'll be loads more clinic and work will increase yet again....
Hopefully things won't be quite as frenetic once another staff member is employed....
Awww Osc, poor little lad - I hope he's better soon xxxx