Weird issue with my eye

Just happened. Makes me think of retinal fatigue, when you see the afterimage of something that’s not there anymore. Except that I wasn’t staring at anything for a long period of time; not even my phone.
As I type this, a spinning block of colors blocks the view of parts of the screen. If I move my eye to look directly at the spot, it moves. Always to the right. Lol I’m often afraid of retinal damage. I was fine till a minute ago.

I wonder what caused this. I stepped outside to turn off the swamp cooler connection, then went back inside to get some food from the freezer. Nothing weird. Now something is wrong with my eye. I would think maybe I got battery acid dust in it from the car earlier, but it would have happened hours ago so I doubt that’s what the issue is. (If there are a bunch of mistakes in my writing right now, it’s because the words are blocked by the weird spinning colors)

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ElwoodBlues · M

Here's hoping it wasn't a torn retina or something serious like that. What was the diagnosis? Can you post an update??

Colonelmustardseed · 36-40

@ElwoodBlues Thank you. No updates other than that it went away after about 10 minutes. I haven’t scheduled to see an eye doctor yet. I have too many other appointments. I will get my eyes checked still, but for now it hasn’t reoccurred and I don’t have any other problems with them (which is probably a hopeful sign).

ElwoodBlues · M

@Colonelmustardseed OK, good, I missed the part about it going away after 10 min. That makes it sound much less urgent.

Colonelmustardseed · 36-40

@ElwoodBlues It made me pretty nervous at the time. I’m glad I posted about it because of others who had or have similar issues happening with them giving me some direction for knowing what this could be.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Colonelmustardseed I'm sure it would make any of us nervous in the midst of it.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues

Here's hoping it wasn't a torn retina or something serious like that.

What if it is a torn retina? Isn't life rather risky? There are a hundred and one ways for the body to malfunction.

ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 Yes, life is rather risky. Yes, there are "a hundred and one ways for the body to malfunction." And it's always fun when someone like yourself tries to inject more fear into other peoples' lives. Fear mongering like yours definitely has its place.

Luckily, over the past dozen or so decades, science has developed this body of work called "modern medicine." And this thing, this "modern medicine" can repair or greatly ameliorate many of these "malfunctions." Science and medicine have been so effective that life expectancy in the modern world has DOUBLED over the last dozen or so decades.

Not that I want to interfere with your efforts at fear mongering, @sree251; no, you do you.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues

Yes, life is rather risky. Yes, there are "a hundred and one ways for the body to malfunction." And it's always fun when someone like yourself tries to inject more fear into other peoples' lives. Fear mongering like yours definitely has its place.

You may view it as injecting more fear into your life. Modern medicine is driven by money. It is not mean for the poor. Even if you can afford it, do you want somebody else's heart beating in your body? Do you want to be Dick Cheney?

ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 In every developed nation except the US, they have national health care systems, which means people don't have to be bankrupted by the cost of repairing torn retinas.

These national health care systems cost far less and produce both longer life expectancies and lower infant mortality than the US. Remind us, who is blocking every effort to make health care more equitable in the US??

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure

Infant mortality in 2020

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues

In every developed nation except the US, they have national health care systems, which means people don't have to be bankrupted by the cost of repairing torn retinas.

You do swear by research data, don't you? All those charts are pretty impressive even though you don't know a damn thing about the results they are pushing for. Public health is not about health of the public. It's about the bottom lines of the health industry.