November 4, 2009

• what the what??

  After several weeks of odd vision, dizziness and headaches, I took myself to the eye doctor. The tech pointed out to me a little blurred red spot in the photo of the inside of my eye. Optometrist says “retinal hemorrhage” – so what is that?  Some kind of broken blood vessel bleeding in your eye.  It was the tiniest little area, could very well have been a branch of the blood vessel in there. But after looking at it through a few filters, they decided that’s what it is.  Good news, I wasn’t imagining that something is wrong.  Bad news, something is wrong.

  Of the three causes identified by my thorough search of the internets — head injury, diabetes and hypertension – the hypertension is the only one that really makes any sense. I think I can rule out shaken baby syndrome. I suppose there’s a possibilty I’ve experienced stress lately.  Perhaps a little? So, I’m off to a new Dr. tomorrow to get that sorted out.  Also, home with Sam while we hopefully prevent him from getting pneumonia.

  Good thing I have a soft spot in my heart for the month of November. Because, really, so far… not that great.

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