Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire On the way to the Eye Doc

Normally, when a guy starts seeing spiders, crabs, and worms where there aren't any they send him off to a psychiatrist. In this case, I'm going to the Emergency Eye Clinic.

I started getting this obnoxious floater in my left eye Tuesday AM. I spent the first 15 minutes trying to clean my glasses before I realized it wasn't there; it was inside my eye. I've got security cameras up at deer camp, and it sort of reminds me of when a spider decides to build a web in front of one of the cameras.

I contacted my regular Doc and he referred me onto the local Eye Institute. I see them at 0900. KYHillChick is driving me around. Although there is no pain, the eye has started watering. I shoved a napkin behind my glasses so I could type this. It's good to be rid of the spider for a bit.

Although I feel kind of stupid asking for prayer in this circumstance, I would appreciate your kind thoughts.

Praying

Prayers sent for full vision and a painless procedure.

Prayers sent.

Ain't ever anything dumb about asking for a prayer .

Sure hope they can fix that!

Let us know, when you can!

Knee-mail outbound.

saying a prayer for you my friend

Sure hope they can fix the problem. Prayers on the way.

I had that years ago. They told me it’s from stress. It went away.

Thanks.

If I had to guess, I'd go with Hanco's diagnosis. I'm up and down all day, running around the plant, messing with other people's computers. When I'm back at my desk, I've got 6 screens arrayed around me, and there's just no time for relaxing my eyes unless I deliberately break away and go outside. With the cold and the dark days we've been having that hasn't happened as much.

Drat!

Don't mess around with it. #1 wife started having lots of floaters, tiny specks and flashes of light. Next thing we knew we were on our way to Houston to get retinal tears.

Laser surgery fixed her right up though.

Alan

Yeah, don't mess around with it.

In 2012, my right eye got to hurting. Thought it was just strain from looking at computer screen 10 hrs a day, so I didn't go to doc. About a week later, I woke up on a Sunday morning and right eye wouldn't focus, kinda like looking thru fog. I finally went to doc a few days later and found out the eye had built up pressure and because of it, had torn away from the optic nerve in 2 places. So now, I have 2 gray areas when looking thru just the one eye. One of the areas is just above center. Naturally I'm right handed and shoot right handed, so I have to be really careful looking thru a scope, or I will get the crosshair in the gray area. Now I have less than 50% vision in that eye. All that could have been prevented if I had seen a doc when the eye first started hurting.

Did I mention..... Don't mess around..... Get to a doc.

Sorry you have a problem, but hopefully is a retina tear, and just blood as a floater. That can be taken care of, so let's pray it is an easy one to remedy. Good luck.

Love that people ask for divine oversight. Taking a knee on your behalf and wishing you well & a speedy recovery! God Bless.

Good luck!

Good luck at the eye doctor and hope it’s not serious. The floaters are annoying when they start. Just over 2 weeks ago had surgery for a detached retina.
Ronnie

Sincerely hoping you get a talented and skilled doctor. Praising the fact that you didn't just hope it went away.

I will be praying for you, the Doctor and all parties that are involved....Also for a calming effect on you and your family.....

I got a pretty big floater, it's mofo dove hunting.

Usually they laser those things. Break em up.
So you might get a bunch of little ones. Hopefully not.

But that's why I wont go deal with mine. That was my outcome on a previous trip to the laser opth

I'm back from the doc. After a considerable amount of waiting and questioning and so forth the determination was that:

a) Yeah, there's a floater in there and it's big
b) No big deal. Learn to live with it until it goes away.

They said the mucousal lining of the eye starts shredding after 50, and what I've got is just a larger than normal piece of it floating out in the middle of the eyeball. In short: a major eye booger.

The funny story is that I warned the nurse that I had an eye phobia. I've had it all my life. I get into an eye exam and have been known to pass out. People talking about contact lenses, etc set me off as well. I didn't know how this was going to net out, but I was going to give it my best.

She put drops in my eyes. That went well. She then had me sit out in a waiting area for some time until the doctor was ready. Two burly guys came by later, after I was thoroughly dilated and escorted me to the examining room.

"What?" I joked. "Are you here to hold me down in the chair?"

"We hope it doesn't come to that." one replied. They were nice, but they stayed in the room for the duration of the exam. I guess I should be proud they felt the need to send two in to take care of me if I got jiggy. I'll take that as a win.


Two doctors also came in. One was the head eye dude and the other was the retinal specialist. They went all through my eye with lights and scopes and kept yelling out things like "PVD is 4! I is 3.. . no, make it 3.5." They called out alphabet soup to each other for about 15 minutes.

Finally the retinal specialist had a look and said something recognizeable, "Dang! That thing's huge!"

No tears, no bleeding, no muss, no fuss, no belts, no pins. Best thing; no needles and no need for the two burly guys in the back. I also didn't have any problems with the vertigo and nausea that has gotten me some previous visits to eye doctors. That side of things went optimally.

I'm due back in a month and the prognosis is that eventually the booger will break up or gravitate down to the bottom of the eye and get out of the way.

Thanks all for all the prayer and thought.