Was sitting with my wife, watching a movie last week when a fireworks display began going off in the periphery of my left eye. It was like somebody was using a welder just out of view to my left. I also noticed a dull ache in that eye starting at about that point. I'd been wrestling with a rather heavy household appliance earlier that day and had just started to relax with a adult beverage when this all happened, so I was pretty disoriented by it all. After the movie ended, I went to bed and wrote it off to overdoing it a bit. The next day it wasn't as bad, with only an occasional flash every once in a while. I spoke with my neighbor who'd had a similar event a few years ago, and I mentioned it in an email to Ted here. I also did some research online and came up with this: posterior vitreous detachment (look that one up, eh?). Evidently it's not uncommon for folks in their 50s and 60s to begin noticing such a thing. I'd largely written it off until Ted contacted me to warn me of some of the potential consequences of ignoring it, suggesting that I go see somebody forthwith, before any permanent damage was potentially done to the optic nerve in that eye. After I'd heard from Ted, my neighbor also read me the riot act about it, as he'd nearly lost all of his vision in his right eye to it as well. I couldn't do much about it on a Sunday, but on Monday I went to see an Ophthalmologist first thing. Unlike Ted (or my neighbor) I didn't have to hot-foot it over to a surgical theater immediately thereafter, because the scan of my eye showed no bleeding or tearing going on (like it very much was in their situations). The downside, however, of the "delamination" of things in the back of my now 64-year old eyes has evidently resulted in some debris floating around in the far-left periphery of that eye, & occasionally now getting into my field of view. I do have a follow-up scheduled for a month later to see how things are going but.....damn, not a good thing for an outdoorsy fellow. I'm not hypertense and I don't have diabetes, so my risks of further complications seems minimal (according to my doc) but there also seems to be little else to do about it. Would it be fair for me to use this as an excuse for missing that next clay bird or even as real one? This is my shooting eye after all.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 02/08/22 08:36 PM.
