A Note of Thanks...

For those of you who were concerned about my latest health problem, which was my right eye... it gained a bunch of what they call floaters, and whenever I moved my eye from side to side I would get a lightening type flash on the side of my eye.

Many thought it might be a torn or detached Retina.. which I am more then happy to report, It is NOT! (I sweated that one out!)

The doctor said the Retina was fine and the flashes and newly acquired "floaters" (which also are making it really hard to read) MIGHT go away in a few months.. or .. may not. So expect to see my typos then usual!

But at least I know it's not the Retina and so am not "blind" yet! I realize some may say .. well, you have the other eye, which is good. Well.. it's not that good. I have a blind spot right in the middle of sight. It's been there since I was young. When looking through both eyes it's not noticeable, but should my other eye get real bad and I need to see with only my right eye.. well... when I look at typing such as I am doing now thru one eye.. each word, as I look at it is gone... i see all around it but not the exact word I am looking at. Which tells you one of the reasons I was so upset over the other eye.

Other than taking care of my brother, all I have to call of a life of my own is being on this computer, watching television, or reading. That takes both of my eyes.

So... that's that for now. I want to thank everyone for caring enough to leave comments about getting to a doctor. That too was not easy. I got very lucky that the neighbor could come and stay with my brother so that I could go. She could not have done that if her husband was not presently out of work, because of small children. It's hard to ask someone to help take care of a disabled person when they are not used to it. Luckily again, this neighbor, when she worked (before kids) was a person who went to help at homes, thru an agency, for the disabled.

This same woman may be the lady that helps me actually be able to take some "time off" (second time in 7 yrs) this coming March. But I will save that for a later post.

Thanks again to all of you!

All this eye stuff is effecting my reading blogs more then I like. I am a slow reader to begin with and now I think it's down to a crawl! I tire of rolling my eye around trying to find a clear spot only to have the floaters return and hinder what I am trying to read... This is going to impair my book reading too... I really hope this eventually disappears like the doctor said it "might".

But until then... we will attempt to get back to regular programing....