So I forgot to write about my adventures with eye trouble, and for those of you in the know the last bit is a bonus addition to the story, hot off the press of life.

Last week, on Tuesday I think, I went to an Optometrist for an eye exam. Having not had one for three years, I felt like my prescription needed an update, and this way I could try getting back into contacts. Upon finishing my exam I learned some interesting things. First, according to the physical shape of my eyes my right eye should have as bad of astigmatism as my left eye, but doesn't; apparently my right eye figured out a way to compensate for it somehow. Aside from that random information the Optometrist was a little concerned by the results of my confrontation fields test and a slightly larger than normal cupping of the optic nerve.

So he referred me to an Ophthalmologist (that's a tricky word to spell). I went and had an appointment on that Thursday with him. My test results suggested that my eyes were fine, though most of the tests came back as borderline normal. So they want to keep an eye on my eyes (hahaha), and I have an appointment in 6 months.

So with all this fun, I was rather concerned when sitting in class this morning I realized that I couldn't read the slides. I had a blind spot just to the left of my center of vision, accompanied over time by swirling sensations and overall visual oddities, including loss of peripheral vision to my left and above me. So I called the ophthalmologist and went up there to check it out. By the time I got across campus it had pretty much dissipated. So he looked at my eyes and said that any serious causes of temporary visual loss were not present, and so I had apparently simply had my first migraine. Confirmed by textbook symptoms of moving visual loss with other unusual visual phenomena. It was not fun, I don't like not being able to see, especially all of the sudden. I didn't have a headache at the time, (the visual phenomena usually signal an oncoming migraine headache, but I have had a mild headache since I returned to campus). Unfortunately, the migraines will probably be a continuing thing at this point; it is unlikely to have been a one time deal.

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