The Sky Is Blue Again…

…out of both eyes!

Yesterday it dawned (heh) on me that suddenly the sky no longer looked like a smoggy day when viewed from the right eye — the one with the weird flashes. In spite of being declared free of retinal detachment, ever since that episode it’s felt like someone smeared a microscopically thin film of Vaseline over the lens of that eye. And when I look into the sky, it’s blue out of the left eye but kind of brownish from the right.

The optician — glasses dude — speculated that in addition to whatever is wrong inside the eye, I may be developing a cataract, too. Nice.

But suddenly, yesterday morning the sky was BLUE blue through both eyes! If anything, it looked even brighter blue from the right than from the left.

Hallelujah.

Most of the annoying floaters had disappeared, too.

One of the websites I stumbled across while mining the Hypochondriac’s Treasure Chest for information on whatever ailed me said that sometimes the floaters reabsorb after one of these incidents, though it could take three or four months. But the vision was so badly hazed — to the extent that if this had happened in both eyes, there’d be no way I could drive at night — and it seemed so unchanging that I figured I was just going to lose that degree of vision permanently, and that eventually I would pretty much go blind in that eye.

So. It’s reassuring to have the sky come back.

Image: Mohammed Tawsif Salam. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.