Slowly the wonton bits floating around in my field of vision become less noticeable. Not sure if they're settling down, being absorbed, or my brain is starting to ignore them. The detour on Cataract Road was this thing called PVD, or posterior vitreous detachment, where the jello inside the eyeball kinda peels off from the retina, pulling adhesive tissue off in the process that basically looks like bits of wonton floating around in there. If you thought there's goo inside your eye, try again. It's more like a round gummy bear.
Web says nothing serious 90% of the time as it happens to quite a few people in their later years. As I prod around for data on the 10%, my surgeon says take it easy for a few months and test field of view every day and watch out for dark spots (dark spots danger, while white flashes are normal as it's peeling off, exciting the retina). Dig deeper and find out that when aging ophthalmic retina specialists get PVD, they stop work, stay at home, and be very chill and still til it's over. Like three months, usually. They've treated the 10%, so that tells you something.
Taking the chill route. Got a local retina expert for frequent inspections. No stress. No head butting. No active sports. Zen golf OK :-)
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