Update: Doing the Unwelcome Eye Thing Again--Part Two

With all the crap going on here (Scott is still home and no pay as he was all July,  AC issues that repeatedly made me sick from the Texas heat, huge bills, and other stuff), I forgot to update as to my eye. See previous post here if you don't know what is going on. 

In the weeks since my last post and eye doc visit, a decent sized floater has also developed in my left eye and is causing issues. More about that in a minute. 

So, last Thursday I went to the eye doc where they ran me through more tests. I then saw a different doc on staff who compared the images of last Thursday with the previous visit and was pleased to see no changes. She said a retinal tear could easily still happen, but now that I had made it so long after the first indication of a problem, the chances had gone down significantly. 

And I learned that the PVD in the left eye did not mean the end of floaters. As the gel in a eye "settles" as one gets older, floaters can and will still happen.  Blah. 

In both cases, we are pretty much in a wafting game to see how long it takes for the eye and brain to see better. It took six months before when it happened in the left and she though that it could easily be that long again for the right to improve. It could be longer as there are blood clots and other trash drifting around in there and not just the giant floater. 

I was warned again, repeatedly, by multiple people of things to watch for in the eyes, and to avoid bending over to pick things up off the floor, falls, etc. 

In the meantime, it remains annoying as hell. Reading and watching television remain problematic and frustrating. I cope with life by escaping, be it by book or TV, and having to fight to see words on the page, or a face on screen, is so annoying.

I know things could be even worse, but I am so frustrated with my life these days .... 

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.  

Doing the Unwelcome Eye Thing Again

It has happened again. Saw a flash, maybe three, in the corner of my right eye Saturday evening. We were outside doing the evening walk to the corner and back, so I did not think anything about it. Saw the massive floater yesterday and the tissue paper effect. Thought it had been this same eye before. Had a day of sheer panic that has stretched into today as my eye doc seems to be closed, at least for now, and the retina specialist place he told me call if anything ever happened will not see me without doctor notes. 

So, they decided to send me to an eye doctor next door, and after some discussion with the very nice scheduler who wanted me to wait two plus weeks as a new patient, I go in early afternoon tomorrow for an exam. 

Finally remembered I had blogged about this before. Read this and then figured out that it was the LEFT last time and now it is the RIGHT. SO NOT THE SAME FREAKING EYE, AFTER ALL. 

Panic Level Alert dialed down to a 7 as it was diagnosed as a posterior vitreous detachment before and was told it would most likely happen again with the other eye. Once you do it in one, it is a virtual guarantee. As long as the retina has not also detached, I should be fine after an annoying few weeks of the giant floater with the tissue paper effect. 

So, if you will, keep a good thought as I deal with this tomorrow. Please and thank you.