health, eyes (details)
Basically, after 7 years without an eye exam, today they found these things called "drusen" (German for "geode") on my left retina, my "good" eye. They're little fatty deposits, and they come in "soft" (bad) and "hard" (less bad). The optometrist was vague, but I'm pretty sure I just have the hard ones.
They're a common warning sign that I _could_ get full-blown macular degeneration in my left eye. Nothing bad is happening yet, it's just a scary thing to think about!
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@zebratron2084 Still, definitely understandable as a source of anxiety.
Pullin' for you. I hope it all turns out okay <3
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I hope you get lucky on the percentage
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I actually read some statistics, and the odds are less <10% per year of hard drusen becoming a full-blown problem.
It's just that... well, the vision in my right eye's already a bit fucked, so it would mean major impairment... unless I caught it within, like, three days. And got injections. Rather expensive ones.
Just one more thing to fret about, one more engagement with Adult-World bureaucracy. My eyes are the same today as yesterday.