This week I learned a number of things about posterior viterous detachment.
- It is a medical issue that has nothing to do with your posterior. It’s an eye problem in which the goo that fills your eyeball shrinks up, so that it’s not flush with the retina in the back (posterior) of your eye.
- This causes “floaters” in which one sees dust bunnies on the edge of your field of vision, and “flashers” which are meteors that streak across your field of vision.
- These are the same symptoms that happen with retinal detachment, again a lack of connection between the goo and the retina, only the retina version is more serious.
- Because it could be serious you have to make an appointment with the ophthalmologist all while your husband bellows that it’s NOTHING STOP BEING A BABY.
I did get it checked out, like an ADULT, and it is the less serious of the two. It seems I’ll be looking at this little dust bunny in my right eye for the next month at least.
Oh, and whhhhhhhyyy whhhhhyyyyy meeeee? Comes with age. Hmph.