01-18-2016, 03:07 PM
Yesterday I went blind in the right eye for about three minutes. Lady Cranefly wondered what the heck I was doing. I'd gotten up and was tilting my head side to side and blinking and conducting other important experiments. After all, it's not often one gets to experiment with something like this when one has full vision. When I told her what was happening, she became mildly alarmed. As vision trickled back at the edges, the occluding area turned a deep purple. Yeah, an intriguing deep purple. When I blinked, I'd see the yellow-orange complement. Within about three minutes my vision fully returned.
Lady Cranefly is strongly pressuring me to see a doctor. Oh bother. I suppose I will, except today is a holiday. From my reading, these are the leading candidates. 1) A capillary leaked blood into the vitreous humor, and as it dissipated, my vision returned. That might explain the deep purple. 2) Bloodflow to the eye might have been temporarily interrupted by something like plaque. 3) A visual migraine happened on a larger scale than normal.
I'm hoping for 3. I get visual migraines a couple times a month, without any headache -- just squiggly patterns that slowly migrate across my vision, lasting maybe 15 minutes, making it hard to read. Number 1 would likely also be minor. Number 2 could be more ominous, suggesting plaque in the bloodstream or perhaps even a precursor to stroke.
This actually happened to me once before, about 5 years ago when I was in Indiana. Yeah, you guessed it. I didn't tell anyone. This time I slipped up.
Not looking forward to stepping within the Kaiser edifice and having to undergo a barrage of tests. I have a new doctor, by the way. Haven't even seen her yet. She was born, raised and mostly educated in China. Maybe she'll just do acupuncture on the eye...
Lady Cranefly is strongly pressuring me to see a doctor. Oh bother. I suppose I will, except today is a holiday. From my reading, these are the leading candidates. 1) A capillary leaked blood into the vitreous humor, and as it dissipated, my vision returned. That might explain the deep purple. 2) Bloodflow to the eye might have been temporarily interrupted by something like plaque. 3) A visual migraine happened on a larger scale than normal.
I'm hoping for 3. I get visual migraines a couple times a month, without any headache -- just squiggly patterns that slowly migrate across my vision, lasting maybe 15 minutes, making it hard to read. Number 1 would likely also be minor. Number 2 could be more ominous, suggesting plaque in the bloodstream or perhaps even a precursor to stroke.
This actually happened to me once before, about 5 years ago when I was in Indiana. Yeah, you guessed it. I didn't tell anyone. This time I slipped up.
Not looking forward to stepping within the Kaiser edifice and having to undergo a barrage of tests. I have a new doctor, by the way. Haven't even seen her yet. She was born, raised and mostly educated in China. Maybe she'll just do acupuncture on the eye...