Human Maintenance

Kinda Hoping December Would Be Better

November wasn’t really a banner month around here, early on it was big ways as we lost a member of the family and 10 days later a good friend. More recently in little ways. Last Wednesday while washing clothes in preparation for the trip to Hendersonville, I noticed a big wet spot underneath the water heater that resides in the laundry room. Sunday afternoon the monitor on the PC started to flicker blue tinting in the lower left corner that grew to encompass 75% of the screen. We caught an Early Cyber Monday Sale and picked up a 23.6″ Samsung monitor for $120, but nobody had any Black Friday deals on water heaters though.

While December has got to be better, but it got off to an inauspicious start. Tonight while chewing a hamburger I bit on something hard, thought at first it might have been a bit of bone, but upon further review it turned out to be a piece of the lower right mandibular second molar. For the past few months I had an occasional pain on the right side when chewing, but never could pinpoint whether it was upper or lower and it was never regular enough to worry about. On the bright side, I don’t have to worry about how to use up that last $500 we had in flex spending anymore.

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1434

PVD – Part II

In September of 2009 Donna had a Posterior Vitreous Detachment in her right eye. Back then, after checking to be sure that the retina wasn’t damaged, the eye doctor told her that more than likely he would see her back in 5 years because that is usually when the second eye will do the same thing.

4 years, 9 months, 6 days later it happened again. Maybe because of the benign outcome last time, the previous incident was more or less forgotten about, that this time it wasn’t imediately recognized as the same thing happening again. So Donna was kind of freaking out on Sunday as she was experiencing flashes of light in her left eye followed by random spiders and their webs in her peripheal vision. Of course it was Sunday, so eye doctors aren’t on call and an Emergency Room visit would have been all kinds of fruitless, so she had to wait to get in to see her eye doctor on Monday where it was confirmed that she had another PVD and didn’t have any retinal tears.

Posterior Vitreous Detachments are a common occurance and the eye doctor told us that if you live long enough they will happen to everyone. They just happen earlier in people with nearsightedness and the higher the diopter the sooner it usually occurs because of the shape of the eye.