OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
Several months ago, a forum member asked me if I only had one eye. More recently someone commented to me that they thought I could only see out of one eye. Well, of course my screen name prompted those reasonable assumptions, which I thought were kind of funny. Although corrective lenses allow me to see almost 20/20, I’ve had some peculiar and sometimes scary eye issues which include:
Current:
~Blind spots at the bottom of both eyes, but with both open, they are not noticeable at all. In fact, it seems they’ve improved over the last couple of years. Decades ago, I noticed the blind spot that was the shape of a crescent moon at the bottom of my right eye. Over time it grew to the shape of a basket with a handle. Several years later, I developed a half moon shape on the bottom the left eye.
~I have “split vision”, which I started noticing about a decade ago when we were riding in the car. Split vision messes with my visual perception. Eg two cars on the road seem to merge and become one for a few seconds. Once while in Costco, my son, who was standing at a distance waiting for me, "disappeared" from view for a second or two. Or, when we’re riding, I may read the words Spring Valley as Spng Vay. More recently I've been noticing that on T.V. letters or entire words will be missing. I haven’t driven since my first eye surgery 20 years ago, so I’m not a danger on the roads. But now I have to be extra careful when crossing the street.
~I have a bleb, that looks like a blob of clear Vaseline, that developed under the top of my right lid after cataract-glaucoma surgery. It has caused my right eye to look bigger (wider) than the left. So yep…my eyes don’t match! I didn’t notice it for quite a while. When I did, it scared me because I thought it was a tumor.
Past Issues:
~About three years ago, the day I was supposed to check out of our timeshare in Atlantic City, I woke up and realized I couldn’t see out of one eye (forgot which). It was like an opaque white curtain covered it. Good thing I know how to get around pretty well down there. After getting off the Jitney, which blessedly stops a short block from the resort, I had to find my way to the casino bus lane, which unfortunately was at the Tropicana and is more confusing (I'll never take the bus from there again).
Before going to the bus lane, I was starving and had to find a place to eat that didn’t cost an arm and a leg. I chose a pizzeria but even that was expensive. It was very scary. Also a blessing is that my son picked me up from the bus stop so I didn't have to order an Uber to get home. Thankfully the blindness was gone by the next day. I found out from my eye specialist that it was probably caused by extreme dry eye.
~I’ve also had dry eye so severe that periodically, it felt like shards of glass had flown into my eye. Blessedly that only lasted a few seconds each time. My specialist told me to use Systane Ultra at least twice daily and I haven’t had the problem since.
This has gotten long, so I'll add more later. Have any of you had or know someone who's had any of these eye issues?
Current:
~Blind spots at the bottom of both eyes, but with both open, they are not noticeable at all. In fact, it seems they’ve improved over the last couple of years. Decades ago, I noticed the blind spot that was the shape of a crescent moon at the bottom of my right eye. Over time it grew to the shape of a basket with a handle. Several years later, I developed a half moon shape on the bottom the left eye.
~I have “split vision”, which I started noticing about a decade ago when we were riding in the car. Split vision messes with my visual perception. Eg two cars on the road seem to merge and become one for a few seconds. Once while in Costco, my son, who was standing at a distance waiting for me, "disappeared" from view for a second or two. Or, when we’re riding, I may read the words Spring Valley as Spng Vay. More recently I've been noticing that on T.V. letters or entire words will be missing. I haven’t driven since my first eye surgery 20 years ago, so I’m not a danger on the roads. But now I have to be extra careful when crossing the street.
~I have a bleb, that looks like a blob of clear Vaseline, that developed under the top of my right lid after cataract-glaucoma surgery. It has caused my right eye to look bigger (wider) than the left. So yep…my eyes don’t match! I didn’t notice it for quite a while. When I did, it scared me because I thought it was a tumor.
Past Issues:
~About three years ago, the day I was supposed to check out of our timeshare in Atlantic City, I woke up and realized I couldn’t see out of one eye (forgot which). It was like an opaque white curtain covered it. Good thing I know how to get around pretty well down there. After getting off the Jitney, which blessedly stops a short block from the resort, I had to find my way to the casino bus lane, which unfortunately was at the Tropicana and is more confusing (I'll never take the bus from there again).
Before going to the bus lane, I was starving and had to find a place to eat that didn’t cost an arm and a leg. I chose a pizzeria but even that was expensive. It was very scary. Also a blessing is that my son picked me up from the bus stop so I didn't have to order an Uber to get home. Thankfully the blindness was gone by the next day. I found out from my eye specialist that it was probably caused by extreme dry eye.
~I’ve also had dry eye so severe that periodically, it felt like shards of glass had flown into my eye. Blessedly that only lasted a few seconds each time. My specialist told me to use Systane Ultra at least twice daily and I haven’t had the problem since.
This has gotten long, so I'll add more later. Have any of you had or know someone who's had any of these eye issues?
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