*whew*

I can't actually recall why I friends-locked the previous message, except that I was freaked out. For those just joining us now, I experienced a sudden uprush in the number of floaters in my vision, so I arranged to go down to the eye clinic and have them check for retinal detachment.

No retinal detachment. Peripheral vitreal detachment, "a natural part of aging." When I hear that phrase I reach for my revolver; I mean to say, rather, I want to go do research to see if it is really true; but leave that for now. This event increases the risk of the other scarier condition, but it would still be rare for me to end up with it. I liked the eye doctor. He did say that since "eyes tend to be the same age," which cracked me up completely, that I might experience a similar detachment in the other eye, and if so I would need to come back in to make sure that this too was not anything serious.

Also, they checked for glaucoma and the pressures are fine, and my seven-year-old expensive bifocal prescription is still good.

I will stop tying now because I can't actually see the screen very well because of the eye-dilating drops, and I have to get ready for Minicon. See some of you there.

Thanks to everybody for the kind thoughts, including those of you who (as I so often do) did not post a comment because it's so hard to get the words right.

P.