This new double-vision thing is interesting… but not in a good way. 😬😯 Here’s what I mean:

• You can’t judge depth perception, so you trip getting on the bus. Now, a week later, you need to hold a cold-pack on your knee, but you can’t see properly to put it on just the right spot. 😑
• Your “good” eye quickly tires, so you have much less time to keep up with your social media accounts. Especially, you…
• …feel guilty that you’re short-changing this blog!
• You pour water all over the counter instead of in your water bottle. 🙄
• I could go on, but…

Oh! how did this happen, you may ask? Answer: I have no darn idea! I woke up one morning, I think it was January 31, and felt a dull pain “behind” my right eye, and found that my eyes just couldn’t focus. It was as if I wasn’t wearing my glasses – but I was! I fiddled with them, trying to look at things from different angles – at the TV, or computer, or phone. Normally I have no problem whatsoever. 

I called my neurologist who referred me to a neuro-ophthalmologist. After I had many tests, she couldn’t say definitively if it was optic neuritis or not. (I had suspected it was, because I have a very mild case of MS, very stable for a couple of decades now. Optic neuritis is commonly seen in MS patients.) She wants to see me again in four months. Whaa?! What about my double vision, I asked her. Can’t anything be done? She just shook her head and basically implied that I’d have to suck it up, and that this will probably go away on its own at some point.

Hence my pirate look! The eye patch means I don’t have to keep holding a hand up to block one eye.

On a positive note, the dull pain went away after a few days.

I’ll see if I’m up to writing my Friday Follies installment tomorrow. Sigh. 😔