Clots

My last blog was about how the entire day went off without a hitch. Everything came together. All loose ends were tied. HA! I should not have tempted the gods! Everything fell apart Friday.

The plan was to stay home all day and work in the gardens. By 10:00, I was in the very back gardens with electric hedge trimmers attacking the overgrowth. It looked fantastic. Leaning over from the waist to gather the piles of fallen camellia leaves, all was well. It was when I stood up that it happened.

Suddenly, I saw a blood clot in my right eye. INSIDE MY EYE. With gravity, it began to drip. When I moved my eye, strands of blood moved as well. Then, more clots. More drips. Dropping everything, I grabbed my cell phone and phoned my glaucoma doctor's office. He was not in but she had him phone me. He kept asking me, "Inside your eye?" Then, he said something one never wants to hear from a doctor, "That is weird."

Since I had seen a retinal specialist group a couple of years ago, I was not considered a new patient so they were able to book an appointment at 1:40 over the pass. Great.

Deep breath. Think. I probably shouldn't lift anything heavy so I left all the gardening equipment right where it was. I was in my gardening clothing, no makeup and a mess. While pealing off clothing, I phoned Michael. He was on the other side of the pass and immediately headed home. By the time he got home, I was ready to head to the doctor's office.

They did an eye exam, my pressure in that eye was 30 (down from 45), took my history then we met the doctor. Great guy. He examined the eye, said he knew what the problem was but wanted a photo so he could show us. It was amazing to see the actual veins of blood in my eye. The clots were there as well. He said it was somehow connect to my acute posterior vitreous detachment of a couple of years ago. There would be no permanent damage, though I was seeing lots of clots and a haze over the eye. The blood would be absorbed but he wanted me to take it easy for a couple of days. It will take weeks for everything to settle down completely.

I have done nothing physical since then but he approved me for pulmonary rehab on Tuesday. We did go to Melanie's graduation party last night and had a really nice time chatting with such interesting people. But, oh my. What a wild Friday.