Not quite dead yet.
This contract work is knocking me on my ass. Oddly, it's when I have the most to write about here that I write the lease. I intend this to be my first in a string of trying to get back into updating this thing regularly.
I noticed a bit of distortion in my vision while taking a shower Thursday morning, and my first thought was, "Oh, great, my retina issue has come back." At first, I only saw it when I shut my eyes, and I hoped it was just a result of a bit of errant shampoo. Over the next couple of minutes, the distortion got noticeably worse, though.
Then I recognized what it was and realised that it was not a retinal issue - it was an ocular migraine. I don't get these very often, in fact, it's been a couple of years since my last. As soon as I got out of the shower, I took an aspirin as a precaution that this might want to turn into a headache.
Like previous times when I've had these, over the quarter of an hour, the distortion slowly danced and jiggled its way into a larger and larger crescent in my vision until it escaped my field of view, leaving things wavy and indistinct in its path for a few minutes.
For many, these turn into full-blown migraine headaches, but I'm fortunate to have never suffered one of those. In the wake of this ocular event, I was left with brain fog and a strong feeling of detachment. My head felt like a headache wanted to happen, but couldn't quite pull it off. It cleared up after a couple of hours, just leaving me feeling somewhat wiped.
In other news, atara and I got notified on Tuesday that we'd been exposed to somebody with COVID on the weekend. We spent much of Saturday with him, including spending a lot of time together in an enclosed car. Fortunately, between all of us being fully up-to-date on our boosters, and him not being symptomatic at the time, I think we dodged a bullet. We both tested negative a couple of days after we'd have expected symptoms to show up from the weekend, and so far we're still showing no signs.
I noticed a bit of distortion in my vision while taking a shower Thursday morning, and my first thought was, "Oh, great, my retina issue has come back." At first, I only saw it when I shut my eyes, and I hoped it was just a result of a bit of errant shampoo. Over the next couple of minutes, the distortion got noticeably worse, though.
Then I recognized what it was and realised that it was not a retinal issue - it was an ocular migraine. I don't get these very often, in fact, it's been a couple of years since my last. As soon as I got out of the shower, I took an aspirin as a precaution that this might want to turn into a headache.
Like previous times when I've had these, over the quarter of an hour, the distortion slowly danced and jiggled its way into a larger and larger crescent in my vision until it escaped my field of view, leaving things wavy and indistinct in its path for a few minutes.
For many, these turn into full-blown migraine headaches, but I'm fortunate to have never suffered one of those. In the wake of this ocular event, I was left with brain fog and a strong feeling of detachment. My head felt like a headache wanted to happen, but couldn't quite pull it off. It cleared up after a couple of hours, just leaving me feeling somewhat wiped.
In other news, atara and I got notified on Tuesday that we'd been exposed to somebody with COVID on the weekend. We spent much of Saturday with him, including spending a lot of time together in an enclosed car. Fortunately, between all of us being fully up-to-date on our boosters, and him not being symptomatic at the time, I think we dodged a bullet. We both tested negative a couple of days after we'd have expected symptoms to show up from the weekend, and so far we're still showing no signs.