Eye See You

This summer, in the midst of all the moving madness, we had our annual eye exams. I've already detailed my failed experiment with progressives that were the result of that. But I also left with a referral to see a retina specialist because they'd found a nevus on one of my eyes (the right one, if you're curious) that should be looked at.

"It's probably fine." Said the eye doctor. "But you ought to have them look just to be sure."

And since I had way more things to worry about at the time, that referral got moved and shuffled around and on the to-do list and then off it until Monday.

Monday, I called thinking I could get in sometime in January. And they said, "Are you available Wednesday?"

Eh, sure. Why not?

So this morning, I headed over.

Of course, I first parked, took the stairs up and wandered in a circle in the wrong stinking building. So my lovely ten minutes early cushion went to pot.

But when I got to the correct building and office, I was still on time. And as I'd done my paperwork ahead of time, all was well.

They checked my corrected vision. (Still good.) Numbed and dilated my eyes. (Never fun.) And then had two different machines take pictures of my eyes.

Honestly, I think it's kind of cool to see the outcomes.

All in all, I'm happy to report that a) there's no indication of any sort of glaucoma risk at this point (Dad has glaucoma and my pressures never register the right way, always trending a little on the high side of normal, so everyone is always concerned.) and b) while yes there IS a nevus (basically a mole on your retina) it looks very benign, has none of the traits that suggest it might end up cancerous in the future, and she'll have me back in six months out of an abundance of caution, but she said not to spend any time thinking about it unless I started seeing flashes or developing blocked vision when I looked in certain ways or had floaters.

So yay. And hey, now it's done, so I can quit ignoring it.

It's been six hours and my pupils are still not back to normal, but at least it doesn't hurt to see anymore.