Eye for Drama

I never thought myself a drama queen. But I might just be a drama magnet.

Seriously. In the last week I have had some interesting chemo side effects. And then I got the cold/sinus infection/cough thing. A furry intruder made himself at home in my home. And late last night something new was added to the growing list of happenings in my life.

I cannot remember what initiated the event (a cough? a sneeze?), but around 6pm I noticed that all was not as it should be with my right eye. There was a very mild sensation of something "letting go", but no pain. At the same time, there was a series of "flashes" and a marked increase in the number of floaters and other things moving through my field of vision. At first I thought it must have something to do with the NKTR-102, but when the floaters appeared to multiply overnight, I knew something was seriously amiss.

Saint Penny drove me to see my eye doctor this am. I was afraid to drive myself in case the vision thing got worse. Was terribly afraid I had a detached retina.

As luck would have it, my drama wasn't quite that dramatic. However, there is a definite problem with my right eye. Have something called a posterior vitreous detachment. Never heard of such a thing before, and was surprised to learn it is a very common condition often associated with aging. Here's how the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) describes the condition:

http://www.rnib.org.uk/eyehealth/eyeconditions/eyeconditionsoz/Pages/posterior_vitreous_detachment.aspx

At least it's something I can learn to live with, although the cobweb effect is rather distracting at times.

In other news:


Sad to say the mouse is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an X-Mus. Two others found their way to traps in my crawl space. Good news: where there are mice, there are no rats. Better news: the pest dude found their point of entry and will close it off once it is certain all the meeses are out of the house. And the deer mouse was such a dear cute thing, at least its face was. Now that is no longer scampering about, I can get some much-needed sleep.