I'm

M.

I'm

Bhopal

I'm

. very rare diseases floating around the waiting room at the ER. I don't need those.

And so I didn't do that. But saw the ophthalmologist this morning.

And so that's why my eyes look super puffy because first they do the numbing drops, which sting.

And then they, so my, they did the dilation. So'm sure I my eyes are nice and big and everything's sort of foggy and fuzzy at the moment

but no retinal tear no retinal separation uh basically a long story short and hey for those of you who are getting into your 60s I didn't have this information so maybe it will be helpful to you the vitreous humor in your eyeball shrinks with age and as it pulls away it can damage things by pulling the retina with it.

Or sometimes it can pull away and the retina stays right where it's supposed to.

But when you think about it, you don't have sensing nerves in your retina.

You only have light sensing nerves. They don't sense pain. They don't

transmit pain signals. They transmit light signals. So if something happens inside your eye, such as

the vitreous humor pulling away from a part of the retina, uh, that would cause pain,

but the only thing that those nerves can report to your brain is light.

Hence the flashes that I,

the flashes light that I saw and still see a little bit.

Um,

only once it's very,

very dark inside. Um, but, uh, I, well, the first

things the doctor said was cataracts. And I'm like, I don't like that. But he basically said

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