A couple of days ago I suddenly started seeing flashing lights in my peripheral vision, followed by what appeared to be a sudden oilspill on my eyeball - a long, very black, snakey kind of thing. This caused major alarm bells to ring because I knew (having been told by various opticians over the years) that this was the sign of a retina detaching. Fortunately (?) it was about 4:45, so I could still call my eye person. They referred me to a retina expert who booked me an appointment at noon the next day (i.e. Friday). Of course, this required my pupils being dilated, so after being reassured that it wasn't my retina, it was just the vitreous jelly detaching from the back of the eye (oh, is that all) which is a "perfectly normal part of the aging process" I was essentially confined to the indoors for the rest of the day (after a rather hair-raising drive home wearing the trendy eyewear you see below). However, this is a high risk time for retina detaching, so I'm going to have a couple of follow-up appointments in a month and then another month. Ah, the joys of getting older.
No comments:
Post a Comment