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Dwiv's Pirate Day Practice Take a picture of yourself right now Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... Just take the picture Post the picture with no editing Post these instructions with your picture

Now it's your turn. NO CHEATING!

How it happened....

In an effort to explain the earlier picture, I would tell you the story I've been using so far (that elfgirl is a mean drunk and slugged me, the abused spouse!) but she's started threatening to hit me when she's sober, too, so I'm going to try a different path....

Da elf and I were playing around, and she went to bop me on the head, but underestimated her swing strength. At the same time, I moved my head, causing her to strike me rather hard on my occular bone. This resulted in a big pressure spike in my left eye. The eye pad is because I got treated today and the doc wanted me to not use the eye for a while. As well, if you look closely you can see that my eyes (yes, both, in fact) are dialated so the doc could look inside and blind me repeatedly with that damned camera of his.

Why?

Apparently a pressure spike like that bursts blood vessels in the retina, which explains a temporary outage of my vision in that eye. It gets better over time, but is visible as a 'bleaching' of the retina. I have that, a little, in one quadrant of my eye. This is our best guess of what happened.

I also have a cataract on the back of the lens, in the center, with "featherings" down into the lower left, impacting that same quadrant. It is of a type that COULD (but may NOT be) a traumatic cataract, which is caused by the kind of impact I had. However, they tend not to be so quickly expressed, making this a "huh" kind of answer. Still, it's an option. So, now we have two possible causes of the vision issue.

Tomorrow, sometime during the day, I'll call the doc on his cell and tell him how my eyes are. If they're still an issue, I get to go get some kind of surgery. If not, I get a visit on Monday as a followup to see that it was just the retina thing.

That's it.

I like my first story better. I can say that because da elfwife is upstairs and can't hit me from there.