Eyes Wide Open: How Optician Visits Transformed My Perspective on Life
How some worrying changes in my vision have altered my entire outlook on life going forward
It was the first properly sunny week here in England and I was feeling pleasantly relaxed as I had time off from work, and was enjoying spending time outside reading in the park with the bright blue sky overhead.
But not for long.
A couple of days into this pleasantly warm weather, I started to notice something odd happening to my eyes.
At first, I thought it was a fleck of dust in the corner of my eye, or perhaps something that had got caught on my glasses which was creating strange spots across my vision.
Being the hypochondriac I am, I couldn’t help but do a quick Google in the park. Several minutes spent fishing around the internet soon convinced me I would go blind. Immediately.
Alas, that never happened and won’t happen any time soon. But I did take a trip to the opticians to find out my vision had deteriorated and I have PVD (posterior vitreous detachment) a type of condition where the gel from the back of your eye comes away from the retina — causing floaters to stray into your vision.
