Doctor handwriting

Excuse the font size.  I just got back from the eye doctor and my eyes are still a bit blurry.  

So, while I was there and having the usual exchange with the assistant...

one or two?

two or three?

one or three?

we had an interesting glitch for a moment.  I did fine with my left eye (after telling her I didn't think my distance vision changed that much).  When she started with my right eye, however, all I saw were blobs.  At one point I couldn't even tell how many of them there were.  

YIKES!

She paused for a moment, looked at the doctor's note from two years ago, and said:

"Oh, that must be a 4 not a 9.  Grrr, doctor handwriting."

I have no idea what that means, but when we started up again I was able to tell that at least I was dealing with letters and not numbers and I could identify most of them.  

Sighs of relief all around.