I spy with my little eye*

[bending_sickle]

update on the whole “not going blind” thing

so. the blob. it’s still there, occasionally throwing some disco lights, and yesterday and today it looked like it had fuzzier, larger edges, which yay, and when i was reading up on the normal blind spot, i realized that the blob is right at that spot. which less yay because yes, we all have a blind spot there, but we’re not constantly staring at it, which i basically am.

anywho, i went to the ophthalmologist again today for my visual field test, the automated “stare at the inside of an egg and click the clicker if you see a light somewhere” version, and my god it is fucking exhausting. and stressful. and boring as fuck. but i got to wear a pirate eye patch so, y’know. i think i was at it like half an hour and when i got home i was like dark. lying down. in the dark. all the dark. dark dark dark.

aaaanyway, turns out that yes, the blind spot is where the optic nerve is all hiya retina! and there’s also something funky going on with my left eye, which up till now i’d thought was a-okay but traitor.

yeah so i’m seeing a neurologist on thursday and getting some resonance imaging done (was it MRI? maybe. idk, i was scared.) because the ophthalmologist can only see so far as the eyeball and everything looks fine on his end except things are obviously not fine because blind spot.

he said i shouldn’t worry.

aha.

#okay so officially maybe kinda a little bit blind but like only a small bit but we're working on it so idek

* Traditional guessing game

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hopefully your eyes will remain whole and hearty, but just in case they have to take it all out, I'll go shopping for a solid gold pimping eyeball complete with laser pointer. You'll have to cover the sun tattoo that surrounds it. BEST EYEBALL EVARRRR

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Bless <3 But you need to come with me while I try it out and terrorize the locals (after we find kiwi liquor, of course, and confiscate it all).

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

*snuggles you* Pirate patches are bad-ass, Lana had to wear one for a couple of years after she managed to get sodium hydroxide in her eye, and shee used to do custom paintjobs on them - for what it's worth, having to explain to an A&E doctor that someone's face is stained purple because the only vinegar in the house was a jar of pickled beetroot is funny in hindsight.

I hope everything's okay, hon. <3 *smiggles you more*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

D: Is Lana all okay now?

And *tiny shrug* I'll know more on Thursday what's going on with the ol' eyeball. *smiggles back*

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's fine, there's just some frosting that's too far over to affect her vision; I think we wouldn't laugh about it otherwise. For all that the purple looked ridiculous, the vinegar saved her eye from all but bits around the edges; it just needed to be protected from dust and dirt for a while. She's proud of making an A&E doc throw up though, those guys are really tough to crack.

*snugs* I hope you get good results, and/or simple fixes. <3 (That's more like what I meant to say before, only I'm not communicating well today) *smish*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that about Lana. *sends her retroactive snuggles*

And thanks darling *cuddles you close* I'm wandering between not worrying at all to leaping into apocalyptic levels of worry. *more cuddling*

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

Nnng, recurring stealth!worry sucks :( (I shall take off capn_obvious hat now) *snuggles more* *offers puppy*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Puppyyyyyyy /o/