Congrats on being alive! 
... and passing the medical too. 
Maybe I'll get to fly someday....

I would like to share a little bit of advice regarding vision - I am by no means an eye doctor, just a teenager on summer vacation - but I genuinely believe that doing certain exercises will improve your vision.  If not, then they most certainly won't hurt anything.  So far  I have perfect vision and, who knows, without these exercises I might have been wearing glasses by now.  Oh, and did I mention that they are 3-D? 

First off, stereograms.  The images that look like a repeating pattern and contain a hidden image if you look at them the right way.  Here's one of a crown I made a while ago that should be easy to practice on.  To see it, you have to diverge your eyes (make them more parallel to each other) so that the two crosshairs in the middle blend into one.  It's hard to describe what this is like, but there are some guides that should help you do it:
Guide 1
Guide 2

And here are some good galleries:
http://www.eyetricks.com/3dstereo.htm
http://www.magiceye.com/3dfun/stwkdisp.shtml
http://www.aolej.com/stereo/gallery2.html

There's also stereo pairs - photographs of the same thing taken from slightly different positions, just like a person's eyes. Here are a few examples.  The first three are parallel - you have to view them much the same way as stereograms, your left eye looking at the left image, and right eye - right image.  The last three are cross eyed - your left eye has to be looking at the right image and vice versa.

After years of looking at these things, I have become quite proficient (I can accommodate my eyes at will - make everything blurry or clear without changing the subject I'm looking at,) and I think this proficiency is doing a great deal in maintaining perfect vision.  I hope this will help you as well.

Whew, sorry about the long post - couldn't help myself

Thanks for the comments...
Notloste: my favorite eye exercise is just gazing (not staring) into the distance in good light; the stereogram workout is probably not for me, as my eye fatigue is always associated with close-up viewing for long periods. And it makes sense that if you want to improve your distance viewing, you should encourage your eyes to focus distantly... but I'll check out those links.

Hagar: I'll tell you, I was so frustrated this time because on several of the charts, I could read the bottom line OK except for maybe one letter. It was maddening. I might have done better if I'd taken more time the last few weeks for my "gazing workout", but things have been crazy, and I wanted to get this damn physical overwith.
Funny you should mention "anti-flying" doctors: This doc mentioned to me that he was afraid to fly (I think he meant solo, not as a passenger). But no, he didn't administer the eye test- that was his assistant.
Back to you for a sec: Can't you still fly commercially in the UK if you wear "specs" or contacts?

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You can - I've seen several commercial pilots with specs - and put this way, you can fly in the RAF in the UK wearing glasses, your eyesight just needs to be perfect until the day you join the service, and lots of RAF people then go on to fly commercially afterwards too...

My annual medical's next month - fingers crossed...

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Unfortunately I gave it up completely. I was being given free instruction to make up for the poor wages & long hours. Very nice but you can't exist on flying lessons & I had very little free time. When I changed my job it would have been impossible to continue although the pay was slightly better. I also had other interests like any young man.

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It was as much my fault as his. I was very naive in those days. It was a Catch 22 situation as I was afraid the authorities would smell a rat & investigate my earlier fiddle. I thought that going from perfect 20/20 vision to half blind (& colour blind to boot) in one year would have looked a tad suspicious.

I found out later that he lived close to the airport & was always complaining about the noise. Nothing new there then.