What a crazy time it's been.
So I haven't posted in just over a month, mostly because I've been obsessively preoccupied with having been poked in the eye at aikido in early February. I was seeing sparks whenever I shook my head or moved my eyes away from having focussed on the computer for too long. So, I went and saw my optometrist, who said he saw signs of a posterior vitreous detachment, and said he wasn't sure whether there were any retinal tears. Specifically, he cautioned me against doing any aikido until I could be seen by an ophthalmologist.
Now, if you know me, you know that aikido is a huge part of my life, and that having to stop doing it for a few weeks would (and did) drive me completely nuts. May is a saint and an angel for putting up with my whinging and moaning during this difficult time.
Finally, Friday, I did get to see an ophthalmologist, and he shoved a big lens right into my eyeball and held it there for a good 5 minutes while shining a big stinkin' light through it, and I couldn't blink the whole time, because there was a lens shoved right into my eye (yes, touching the eye, pushing on it in fact, isn't that just so gross?), which he used like a big periscope to see around the corners into the sides of my eyeball, and he definitively ascertained that there was NO RETINAL DAMAGE and that I am NOT GOING BLIND and I can safely go back to aikido. Totally worth 5 minutes of not blinking and tears falling down my face and very, very strange images in the eye in question. All I needed was a good optic nerve to S-video cable and I'd've been set. ISAGN.
Anyway! So that's basically it. I need to be vigilant for signs of outright retinal detachment, but I'm clear to go back to aikido on Monday, and for that I'm very, very, very grateful.