Getting older sucks, but I'm willing to stick with it a while longer

On Sunday, I woke up from a nap with this odd visual distortion in my right eye.  If my field of vision were a clock, the area from 1 thru 4 was all blurry.  When I closed my eye, I could see a white wedge there.  It didn't go away overnight, so the next day I called the advice nurse.  She got me in to see the eye doctor (who is a sweetie pie and a beautiful young woman) and after I had drops put in my eyes to numb them, and then to dilate them, she shined terribly bright lights into my eyes and looked at things with magnifying lenses.  It's perfectly painless, but it still took a lot of grown-up self control to sit there and cooperate when I wanted to roll into a ball like a pill bug and bury my eyes in the crook of my elbow.

It turns out that there has been a blockage of one of the veins into my eye.  So we want to know why.  The good doctor sent me down the hall to have the inside of my eyes photographed, then they injected fluorine dye into my arm and took pictures of it as it showed up in my eye.  Again, lots of bright lights. Really, I had enough of this during my hippie days.  The nurse told me that some of her older patients have remarked that they had to pay good money back in the 60s to get the same results.

And I do hate needles in my elbow.  I started hyperventilating, trying to keep myself calm.  But we got through it.  The nurse warned me that my face might turn orange, and my urine would definitely change color.  She said that two of the old gents who she dealt with were going to go out in the freshly fallen snow and write their names to compare colors.  Evidently the color can go from dark tea to bright yellow to fuchsia.  I got bright yellow.

Anyhow, I am practicing seeing around the fuzzy wedge, and today I am ready to read all the paperwork  sent home with me.  Last night I just went home and let Kyle be my rock.  Now, it's time to pull out another pair of those big-girl panties and get back to dealing with stuff.

Tomorrow I will produce the later M.