Doing the Unwelcome Eye Thing Again--Part Two

As an update to my post of yesterday, things are not good. It is a PVD (Posterior Vitreous Detachment).

The eye is also a freaking mess and required a bunch of extra tests. 

The only good news at this point is that, so far, the retina has not torn. But, the doc thinks it is highly likely to tear. She can see the floater and it is one of the worst and biggest she has ever seen. The floater itself has blood clots in it. There are way more clots where the detachment line is. And there are at least two, maybe as many as five, blood clots free floating. 

This is why I keep seeing a black dot, like a dead pixel on the tv, floating through. That is a blood clot. The floater is very black in the center of it and that is…blood clots. There is so much debris free floating in the eye, she had a very hard time making sure the retina was still intact. 

Of course, she never saw me back in December 2024, when the left eye did this. So we have no idea if this is how my eyes do this deal OR this one now is way worse than what happened back then. I had several large floaters before. This time is seems to be one huge planet destroying space alien warship thingy, so why knows?

I am to come back three weeks from tomorrow so they can rescan everything. They had to do a bunch of extra tests yesterday to establish my baseline and it took over two hours from start to exhausting finish. My hope is that some of those tests won't be necessary this next time. 

If anything changes, no matter how minor, I am under strict instructions to call in and they will juggle patients to get me in as an emergency. Apparently the tear normally happens during REM sleep so I should not be surprised if it happens and I wake up to being way worse off. 

So, there you have it. My right eye is a mess. I can't read books. I bumped up the type here on the laptop and my old Kindle so I can still read some. But, if the floater hits just right, it can block out an entire sentence or four or five words. Watching TV means I can lose an actor's face or entire body. the damn floater is my own personal eye eclipse that is blocking out a lot. Annoying as holy hell. 

And the car may or may not be having issues. I had a hard time driving yesterday to the doc and a way harder time coming home as I was heavily dilated and the sunshine with the throw away glasses they give you was still blinding. I kept having issues working the gas and the brakes for some reason so it may be just that and nothing actually wrong with the car. 

The same thing happened on Monday a little bit when we hit the store and the library, and I know that was me and the shape I am in, so hopefully that was all it was yesterday. Just another thing to worry about. 

And none of this is an expensive I need as big bills are due and Scott is home due to a lack of work and that means he isn't earning a thing. Just like his dad.