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[greenjudy]

Wearing my wide-brimmed gardening hat, which leaves me more or less blind, I walked into a tree branch yesterday. No concussion, but apparently my right eye is a little bummed out and doesn't feel like talking to my left eye about what color things are. This is, I am told, normal weirdness, and a sign of swelling in the macula

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[calalillith]

o,0

*hugs you gently*

That sounds like an interesting weirdness, and one I will ask you about WHEN YOU'RE BETTER. More lying down and healing, please. *hugs*

[greenjudy]

Thank you, dear **hugs back**

I should be fine tomorrow. It was mainly a warm/cool color difference that came out when they did an eye test on me at Kaiser. Left eye colors seemed warmish - right eye had a pale, greenish cast. The young doc who saw me consulted with an opthamalogist and said this can happen when there is swelling in the retina. Who knew?

[unovis]

Ow, sorry!
Hope it all slides back into focus soon.

[greenjudy]

It's been helpful to stay really low-key today, and amazing to realize how much I rely upon my eyes. No reading? No knitting? Wow.

Thank you for commenting - a warier and wiser gardener I will be in future.

[licoricealsorts]

I hope you have a good radio turned to a good channel!
Sorry for the pain you're suffering, and the being out of action. I guess you can see well enough to type? That's a blessing.

[greenjudy]

Thank you. I'm already feeling a little better than I did this morning. The vision is just a little funky, nothing serious. I figure I'll be back in commission tomorrow.

[greenjudy]

Already feeling a little better than earlier today, and ibuprofen is helping. Crazy-assed tree. At least it got me right across the forehead, a nice authoritative klonk but no concussion. The eye stuff was a surprise. Called Kaiser to ask about painkillers, told 'em my vision was funny, and found myself in a car driven in most peculiar fashion by a kind-hearted retreatant on my way to Santa Rosa. Exhausting...this dear lady was driving narrow and hilly mountain roads...in 4th and 5th gear. O_o

[calalillith]

*snerk* did she not realise you were heading to the ER/urgent care..? Or was she lugging it..? :D

[greenjudy]

It was an appointment, rather than ER, and we made it exactly on time - but I've never driven with someone who drives on surface streets in 5th gear. So basically, rollie rollie...hit a hill...go S L O W L Y up the hill, while GJ wonders if the engine will actually stall...

[flecksofpoppy]

The pain of large hats. So fabulous, yet so dangerous.

Seriously though, eye stuff sucks. :(

Hope you feel better soon!!

[greenjudy]

Thanks. Sun protection good, zero peripheral vision bad.

Eyes seem to be focusing all right today, just sort of dizzy and head-achy. Reading is easier today; gonna try to be in the office this afternoon.