Welp, since at this point I can see well enough to comfortably type, lemme catch ya'll up on the latest bullshit.

So the Saturday before last, not long after getting into work, I had a floater pop up in my right eye (basically a blood vessel inside my eye popped and bled into the vitreous humor). These aren't normally a problem except that: 1 -this was a pretty big one and was covering most of my field of vision, unlike the usual small ones I sometimes get; and 2 - my left eye already is messed up. So basically, I was suddenly functionally blind.Nobody was willing or able to cover for me either, so I was stuck there for the entire work day plus an extra two hours while my sister and my boss both tried to get me an Uber. Originally I was just going to come home, expecting it would fade over some time, but my sister suggested the ER and I agreed.

Turns out the ER was very much the right call, because my blood pressure was 210/120.

After a bit of the ER giving me blood pressure medicines and ultrasounding my eye (as well as taking the pressure without using numbing drops, ow), they determined that my retina might be detached and sent me over to another hospital with an optometrist on call. That hospital also had the wherewithall to check my blood sugar which was also astronomically high, over 500. Another round of blood pressure meds brought me down to 160/100, and when I finally got to see their optometrist, he diagnosed that it was just a floater, not a detached retina like I was fearing.

I went straight to my GP that Monday, and he got me on a good regimen of blood pressure meds as well as adjusting my insulin amounts and switching me from citalapram to prozac for my anxiety issues. The optometrist I've been seeing for the past several years was my next stop, and he determined that due to the drastic change in my vision, I was going to need surgery. So, that's coming up this Thursday for my right eye, and after that we'll need to determine if my left eye can be treated as well.

So yeah. At present, the right-eye floater's still there but it's moved enough that I can see somewhat, and the blood pressure meds from my GP have knocked m back down to the 120/80 range. I'm thiking the blood sugar was also a major contributing factor. I'm still adjusting; I've been lethargic for the past several days, but I think that'll pass once I'm better balanced as far as my blood sugar versus my insulin dosage.

So yeah. Very scary situation, and one that's gonna have me financially in the red for a long time, but ultimately something very much needed.

I ain't gonna let myself die that easy.