In the midst of a much-too hectic week at school, with the classroom going at full tilt as we try to get through everything that I'd planned to do before the end of the school year and the afternoons stretching on with meeting after meeting, I suddenly stop and let go of everything. I have developed two very large "floaters" in my right eye -- so large, that the constantly drifting shadows across my line of sight is distracting. Especially in the bright light when I'm driving. All of this could be the precursor to my retina detaching -- scary prospect for a two-eyed person, but doubly so for a cyclops such as myself, with vision in only one eye. The one with the floaters.
So I phoned the optometrist's office this afternoon and scheduled an appointment for tomorrow morning. I canceled my last meeting of the day, called Bruce, arranged for a sub and wrote up plans for them for tomorrow. Then I drove very carefully home.
We'll see what tomorrow brings. This happened once before and a quick laser surgery took care of things. I didn't have floaters then, though. I hope that I can get rid of them. But for now, I'm making the effort to appreciate this unexpected opportunity to step away from the racetrack that is school three weeks before summer.
Hope everything works out okay. Not fun for you! I have a lot of small floaters in my left eye - sometimes it looks like a whole flock of birds when I look up at the sky. While this can be mentally irritating to me at times, my brain seems to have adjusted well to the invasion.
ReplyDeleteGlad to say that the doctor peered in my eye and didn't find anything much wrong other than my eyes are getting older (fancy that!). Such a relief! He also mentioned that my brain would eventually tune out the floaters and I wouldn't notice them much. Thanks for your good wishes. :)
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