Deb Beausoleil 📷🌅📸 she/her

1. No tear of the retina was found today (detachment of the vitreous is what's causing the floaters and flashing lights).

2. Trip to Michigan delayed for a month until I'm rechecked, but that just gives me more time to settle things here at home first (and to plan my route to and from Michigan).

3. Got the new lens for my new full-frame camera, and wow, what a difference it makes for my photographs!

#ThreeGoodThings #3goodthings #gratitude #eyehealth #today

May 11 at 7:21pmWeb
Show threadsaarmullerMay 11
@BeautifulSunPhotography Yes, as to 1, that happened to me 20 years ago. I was so worried as my mum had had a nasty tear at the same age. And two years later my other eye started flashing. Also only a detachment. The floaters are rather annoying, but not bad enough to want an operation.
Show threadDeb Beausoleil 📷🌅📸 she/herMay 11

@saarmuller It is rather alarming when it happens! My left eye had the floaters about 5 years ago, out of the blue, as I was sitting at my desk at work. Fortunately, no retina detachment. But this light flash thing was new and so scary!

Do you have any vision loss as a result of the detachment? I guess I thought that surgery was the only way to go in those cases.

Sadly, the scan today revealed that I might have the beginnings of macular degeneration. Something to keep an eye on, pardon the pun. LOL

Show threadsaarmullerMay 12
@BeautifulSunPhotography No, my detachments didn't leave any measurable decline in vision, but at the same time I had a gradually increasing cataract on both eyes, so they couldn't observe my retina as well as they would have liked. There were some worries about thinning, but when I had had my cataract operations everything turned out to be fine.
It was an unusual form of cataract. For several years I had to buy new glasses faster and faster as the strength of the glasses was quickly increasing.
Show threadDeb Beausoleil 📷🌅📸 she/herMay 13
@saarmuller oh wow! That sounds unnerving! They said they can see the beginnings of cataracts but not enough to warrant removal. I’m older now than my mom was when she had her cataracts removed.
Show threadCynBlogger™️ ❌👑May 13
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