Floaters - The Story of an Eye · Floaters The Story of an Eye. Starring Spot. I've always had...
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Floaters
The Story of an Eye
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Starring Spot
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I've always had floaters
Image courtesy of Wikipedia
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Since age 7, at least
Lay on your back and squint at the ceiling through your eyelashes
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A month ago something changed
Luckily only in my right eye
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Circles of light when I glanced around
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Sometimes only on one side
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Even in the dark
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Then Spot appeared“ ”
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Followed by the gnats“ ”
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I went to check out my eye
IHAD AVITREOUSDETACHMENT
SAID THE OPTICIAN
You can read about it on Wikipedia
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The Spot is probably retinal “ ”cells that pulled away
BUTIT SHOULD
FADE AND SINKOVER SOME TIME
SAID THE OPTICIAN
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Part of aging, nothing to worry about
BUT...IT COULD
BECOME A RETINALDETACHMENT
SAID THE OPTICIAN
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And then you'd go blind
So if your symptoms change you need to get it checked quickly...
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Oh, and the symptoms are the same
NOWORRIESJUST GOING ON
VACATIONSAID THE PATIENT
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First spray“ ”
While standing on summit of Challenger Point14,087'
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Kinda scary, really hard to see
Note thousands of gray “dots” and new “splash” of color…
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Went to ER, No tear,“ ”
“...but see a specialist, soon...”
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Luckily the gray started to fade
IWENT TO
AN OPTHAMOLOGISTWHEN I GOT BACK FROM
COLORADO
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No tear, but a vessel broke
HECOULD SEEA BROKEN VESSEL
AND LOTS OF BLOOD, “THE GRAY”SAID THE OPTHAMOLOGIST
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It should get somewhat better
THEBLOOD
SHOULD FADE, THEFLOATERS SINK AND FADE, TOO
SAID THE OPTHAMOLOGIST
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But if anything changes...
HEWANTS
TO HEAR ABOUT ITRIGHT AWAY BECAUSE “RETINAL TEAR”
SAID THE OPTHAMOLOGIST
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And BTW...
ITHOUGHT
HIS EXAM WITH A Q-TIPFOR A RETINAL TEAR WAS PAINFUL
I WAS WRONG
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The second tear
Happened while mowing the yard
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Even worse gray cloud“ ”
And a “seaweed” or “flag” waving in the “breeze”
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Could only see shapes, colors
I couldn't even read the amount of text shown above
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Called the on-call
SAWEYE DOC
HE SENT ME TO RETINALSPECIALIST EVEN THOUGH IT WAS SUNDAY
NOW THERE WAS A TEAR
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Warm up the laser!
IHAD MY
OPTIONS EXPLAINEDAND LASER COAGULATION
APPEARED THE BEST BET
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Instrument of torture
Something like this – I honestly have repressed it
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The experience
Seriously, I was weeping by the time it was done
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And then I drove myself home
WELIVE
IN MIRACULOUSTIMES WHEN EYE SURGERY
IS OUTPATIENT
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Now is just the waiting
IHOPE
I DON'T HAVEANY MORE PROCEDURES
BUT AM ASKING FOR VALIUM IF SO
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Two days later
The “flag” has broken up, a bit of reading through the gray
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I will never get back to this
Goodbye, friends
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But would be happy with this
Although I doubt I will get to this, either
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Here's to hoping!
We shall “see”! (pun intended)