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Oh! Oh! Can I tell my health problems? Pulezzzze?!? Ok. I just got back from the eye doctor. My left eye started feeling strange about a week ago. Almost like it was scratched, but with more of an achey feel. Anyway....soon what looked like a bunch of dust particles and threads appeared on that eye. Drops and rinsing in water didn't make them go away. Then a couple of days ago I was walking to bed and I saw a flash of light in the corner of the room. I went to investigate and saw more flashes off to the side....and figured out it was flashes just in my eye, not in the room. SSSSoooooooo....I decided to go to the eye doctor today. I have "Posterior Vitreous Detachment" in that eye and there's not a blasted thing they can do about it. It's like looking through a windshield with an oil film all over it and lots of bug splatters. It's fairly common, but not for someone of my age (yea..I've heard that before...adhesive capsulitis in my shoulder, arthritis.....). Dr. Hooton says the bad news is that about 75% of people that have it happen in one eye have it happen in the other eye within a year. Bummer. It's something I'll just have to live with....and there are MANY more things worse than this to have to live with. So....why all this whining to you people you may ask? Unless your mother wants to confess something, you guys have my genes. You should be informed. Now you are. I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

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Marilyn said…
OK, dear, I have had enough of this game...I don't want to pretend that I am married to an old man anymore, so you can stop falling apart on me at any time, ok? Let's play like we are in our 20's again for awhile, ok? Well, maybe 30's and I could get more done... :)
22 April, 2008 13:37
Marilyn said…
So, I read what wikipedia has to say about it. Are they treating it so it doesn't advance to blindness???. This doesn't sound like good stuff to mess with.
22 April, 2008 13:43
Cambrienelson said…
well, now at least you won't have to SEE yourself aging right?
22 April, 2008 14:32
Gramps said…
Not worried about the blindness stuff...that's only if the retina becomes detached that that only happens in 1-2% of the cases. Marilyn, you know the part in funerals where they say "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"? Well, it's started......
22 April, 2008 15:24
Christa said…
You are too young to be that old, Dad. Do they sell "Stop Age" at the store where you used to buy your "Stop Grow"? Of course, looking at all of us, I don't think that stuff worked too well...
23 April, 2008 09:05
Gramps said…
Yea, that stopgrow stuff was a worthless investment. Cambrie, I can see myself again, just via a warped view. Don't you DARE comment on that......
23 April, 2008 09:12
Marilyn said…
I think it would be SO obnoxious to see differently out of my eyes. I think I would be tempted to wear a patch over the bad one. when the lens falls out in one of my reading glasses while I am wearing them, I have to get them off of my face, fast!
23 April, 2008 11:24
Gramps said…
It's not quite that bad, but it is obnoxious. [shrug]
23 April, 2008 11:48
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