Life on the Farm
It’s been a heck of a time the last couple of weeks. A friend had a health scare, my houseguest fell last week and had to go the the ER (she’s great, camping this weekend with the Sisters on the Fly and has a great new campfire story!), another friend fell this week with another trip to the ER, then there was yesterday. Oy.
I went for my followup visit with the neurosurgeon. My subdural hematoma is all healed up but I’m still getting wicked headaches. As I sat in the office talking to her, I had something weird happen to my vision in my right eye. Suddenly I started getting this weird flicker then floaters that swirled around like black tendrils of smoke in my field of vision. Freaked me out a bit, I have to tell ya. I stopped mid-sentence and said “Wait a minute…something’s wrong here.” I told her what I was seeing and she looked in my eye and said I had to see my eye doctor before the end of the day. I got in at around 3:00 and they did a thorough exam. The good news is, it was not a detached retina! It turned out I have a “posterior vitreous detachment”. It sounds a whole lot worse than it is. It’s not dangerous and there’s nothing that can be done for it. It doesn’t affect your vision except as it separates at which time you get floaters and flashes. Over 75% of people over 65 get PVD. I got it a little early. She doesn’t think it is related to my accident since it has been two months. I still was seeing one floater late last night but my brain will soon adjust to that and it shouldn’t bother me. I am at a greater risk of having a detached retina in the next month or two so I have to be a princess for a while and take it easy. The really good news is, it will not interrupt my beach time! I’m leaving today to drive halfway down and the rest of the way on Saturday.
I wanted to share some more of the beautiful spring flowers that are doing their best to outdo each other. I sat on the porch last night and talked to Old Mama Kitty for a while. I heard a couple of very loud screams of a feline nature up behind the barn. It was definitely bigger than one of my farm cats. I’m thinking bobcat but there are mountain lions here as well. I don’t walk around the farm alone at night. I heard a whippoorwill across the road in the woods some time after dark. Hadn’t heard one since around 2013 so that made me really happy!
Happy Friday…Happy Spring…
…Happy Road Trip!!! ❤️
“The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.” The Song of Solomon 2:12 ESV