- Joined
- Mar 13, 2008
- Location
- Ontario
Today was not my best day ever.
Yesterday I noticed that my left eye was really blurry, like there was a film over it. It didn't hurt or itch, but it didn't resolve itself in a few hours.
So after returning home from a day in Ottawa, I took myself down to the ER.
Wasn't a stroke, that's always good news. Set me up with an emergency appointment for the eye clinic today, which was actually what I expected out of a nighttime visit to the ER.
Turns out I have an uncommon kind of cataract, fast growing, called PSC. It grows in weeks or months, not years like the age-related ones. And I have one in both eyes, so I can expect the right to follow fairly soon.
Good news is that it's treatable through surgery, bad news is there is probably month's of waiting, in which time I may have the "good" eye progress to the point where I can't read, distinguish faces, etc.
Today both eyes are worse after all the testing, drops, freezing etc.
Good news, got a mailer for a $50 free chip. Bad news, can't enjoy playing it.
It's not painful, but feels something like someone smeared vasaline on my eyeball I can't wipe out.
I'm an athiest, so please save your prayers. But I'd gladly take a virtual hug or two, I'm feeling kinda discouraged.
Even if I do spend some time peering through heavy fog, it will come right in the end. I'm not at much risk of losing my vision permanently. We do one eye at a time here in Canada to minimize that risk, in case of complications.
BTW, the surgery is the same cataract surgery that's performed for age-related cataracts.
I'll probably be spending less time online as I am blurry, and a little photo-sensitive. Which I have not yet decided is good news or bad news.
But some good news for all of you. Watch CM promotions for something from me to mark 8 years of membership here on March 12th. I'd asked the Meister about it a bit ago, and he needs to approve the promo I have not yet submitted.
This community has meant an awful lot to me over the years, and I hope I don't have to miss out due to temporary vision problems, even for a few weeks.
Yesterday I noticed that my left eye was really blurry, like there was a film over it. It didn't hurt or itch, but it didn't resolve itself in a few hours.
So after returning home from a day in Ottawa, I took myself down to the ER.
Wasn't a stroke, that's always good news. Set me up with an emergency appointment for the eye clinic today, which was actually what I expected out of a nighttime visit to the ER.
Turns out I have an uncommon kind of cataract, fast growing, called PSC. It grows in weeks or months, not years like the age-related ones. And I have one in both eyes, so I can expect the right to follow fairly soon.
Good news is that it's treatable through surgery, bad news is there is probably month's of waiting, in which time I may have the "good" eye progress to the point where I can't read, distinguish faces, etc.
Today both eyes are worse after all the testing, drops, freezing etc.
Good news, got a mailer for a $50 free chip. Bad news, can't enjoy playing it.
It's not painful, but feels something like someone smeared vasaline on my eyeball I can't wipe out.
I'm an athiest, so please save your prayers. But I'd gladly take a virtual hug or two, I'm feeling kinda discouraged.
Even if I do spend some time peering through heavy fog, it will come right in the end. I'm not at much risk of losing my vision permanently. We do one eye at a time here in Canada to minimize that risk, in case of complications.
BTW, the surgery is the same cataract surgery that's performed for age-related cataracts.
I'll probably be spending less time online as I am blurry, and a little photo-sensitive. Which I have not yet decided is good news or bad news.
But some good news for all of you. Watch CM promotions for something from me to mark 8 years of membership here on March 12th. I'd asked the Meister about it a bit ago, and he needs to approve the promo I have not yet submitted.
This community has meant an awful lot to me over the years, and I hope I don't have to miss out due to temporary vision problems, even for a few weeks.