The Light of Old
When I’m starting to develop a migraine, it begins with seeing flashing lights – then within an hour, a headache to beat all headaches starts. In some ways, I’m lucky with them as I don’t get them all the time and they never last longer than 24 hours.
Last week, I got the lights. I was driving, so I came straight home, put a cold pack over my eyes and forehead and managed to sleep a bit. And result! No headache and no migraine developed.
But I’d have rather had the migraine. The next day my vision was foggy in one eye and I had an eyeful of floaters. A visit to the optometrist confirmed posterior vitreous detachment, with some degree of retinal detachment. Not complete by any means, but enough to make me hate getting older.
The weird thing is that I had an eye test at the same time and according to that, my sight is still fine, with good peripheral vision and I don’t need glasses. Yet I know that one eye sees everything through a mist. Not blurry, just softened.
Apparently all this is age related and not uncommon. I just have to learn to live with the floaters. It’s like tinnitus in the eye. Or like smelling the roses with an overpowering scent of drains nearby.
I wonder which internet site sells the cheapest elixir of youth ….
When you find it, send me the URL. Ageing is cruel.
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I must have been missing your entries. I’ll have to read back. How yucky about the vision. My son gets anxiety migraines. These we can control with relaxing methods that the therapist taught him. I hope you feel better.
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yikes, sounds ominous enough.
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i’ve had occasional floaters since i was a teenager. was i old before my time?
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Frustrating, isn’t it, this ageing thing! (But you are way too young to begin ageing yet!) One of my eyes is giving a softer vision, too, but I know this is because a cataract is developing and, when it becomes a nuisance, a doctor will pop my ageing lens out and put in a sparkly new clear plastic one. Isn’t modern medicine wonderful! I wish that someone could do something similar for your detached retina, but I gather that is much more difficult. (A friend has just had an operation on her retina, but her vision is still blurry.)
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Oh my goodness, I have a pair of reading glasses in every single room of the house, literally, and can’t go five feet without worrying where my glasses are because I can no longer see things close up or read fine print. My eyesight used to be perfect. This has dismayed me terribly, so I know the feeling.
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Yep – gotta post that URL when you find it! I empathize about the migraines…although its been years since I’ve had one I still remember the misery.
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I looked for an elixir of youth for you, but this is all I could find. http://tasciences.com/?gclid=CJ6N75ydmpQCFQcqIgodm3BCtg Frankly, it scares me more than getting old.
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RYN: Have my legs just grown longer? If not a leg-pull, I’m blushing. Thank you.
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*huggs*
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RYN: No, it goes much deeper than that. They just had a big long talk about it. She feels she is the only one doing anything about the accommodation search, and he says it’s all about her. Well sorry son, but it is. SHE is the one going to BIMM. He is just tagging along. Frankly, it would be simpler all round if he just got out of the way and let us organize student digs for her for the timeshe’s there, but he was the one who said he wanted to be with her. Now that push comes to shove, he isn’t putting his money where his mouth is. This is what I’m finding annoying and frustrating, because time is limited, properties are limited and he’s wasting her chances quibbling and contradicting himself. I could slap him.
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RYN: Only for the purposes of my sister’s text. She doesn’t know him as RP.
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What have you been doing these days?
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pfff, I have those killer migraines too. The first time I had floaters I had just got to school and couldn’t see to read the computer and couldn’t really see to teach properly….fortunately the head didn’t develop into what I thought it would and the floaters were gone fairly soon. Hope that they go for you too.
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