It looks for all the world like a half of a dragon-fly is stuck on my left eyelash! I have over the past ten years gotten used to "Speck, Shadow, and Fuzzy-wuzzy" the three "floaters" that I acquired in my right eye after a flying leap into Lyons Street. I tripped on a curb; the shiner, sore wrist, sore hip, and messed up shoulder were additional complications of the ego-crushing incident! "Oh, yes I am fine!" I told the concerned driver who witnessed the whole thing, "or I will be once I go and get my eyeglasses straightened!" I also put ice on all the sore places and eventually got an x-ray of the affected hip; got the all new model just last year and it is SUPER!!
So why are "floaters" a blessing of aging. The optometrist gave me a nice brochure with lots of information and assured me that it was not an effect necessarily of the fall, lots of folks over 50 seem to get these pieces of debris floating in the jelly of their eyeballs! I have also heard that blood pressure being higher than normal - whatever that is - is NOT a contributing condition. So being a bit on the weird side, I decided that I would NAME them since they were going to be with me for awhile. Seems a way to address the fears of aging that we all have on occasion, especially upon the acquisition of "floaters!"
So I was getting into the car to go to my Monday Afternoon Chorus rehearsal, and I kept trying to get the eyelash that seemed to have a bug on it. Then I took off my glasses and cleaned them on my shirt-tail, no luck there! The BUG was still in my field of vision, complete with legs and one "wing" and a bit that appeared to be a body! Since this was in a different eye from my three "friends" from ten years ago I was really "bugged!" So I checked several times for the "floaters" in my right eye - they had totally disappeared!! AND I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE! So much for getting used to having these "complications of aging!" This one is just going by the name BUG - hope it doesn't take ten years for it to disappear!
