Well, I saw the doctor today. He thinks we should delay the surgery for at least ten days. He thinks the blood may dissapate on it's own - then I just get the laser surgery to remove the extra blood vessels, which has a very low risk of complications. Or if it still doesn't go away, he may decide to do the invasive surgery, that is cut into my eye and remove the blood, then laser. Or it could get worse, and if it does, I get the invasive surgery right away, then the laser. So now I'm playing the Waiting Game! Woo!

I'm going for eye surgery tomorrow. I noticed a "floater" (http://www.floaters.net/fworld.html) in my eye last Thursday, but it wasn't really all that exceptional except for it's size. I've had floaters before... many people have tiny ones, and it's quite normal most of the time. I just thought it was a big one and it would go away. Wrong! Sunday morning I woke up and the floater had become a huge mass of blurriness and darkness floating around in my vision.

Turns out the floater was blood, and the blurriness was the blood mixing with the clear "gel" in my eye. According to the doctor, the blood vessels in the back of my eye are "growing like weeds back there" which apparently usually happens to diabetics (which I am not that I know of, but it does run in my family). I have to get the blood vessels removed by laser, which is the easy part. I would have had the laser surgery right then and there, except the hard part is that with the blood that's already in there, it's impossible to see the back of my eye with the laser. So the doctor scheduled another visit for tomorrow, hoping that the blood would have dissipated enough for the laser surgery. Unfortunately, as of the late night/early morning before, it's just as bad as it was when I first saw him, which means he'll probably have to perform invasive surgery (that is, cut my eye open and drain the blood out). :\

At this point I am still planning on going to LA and SF for the next two Blondie shows and a side trip to Disneyland/California Adventure (yeah I know I never wrote down details about the last trip... it was a blast, I met some great people, had a lot of fun, there!), but there's a possibility I may not be well enough in time to make it. It's all up in the air for now. We'll see tomorrow I guess. But I'm gonna try to go! California denizens may see me running around with a very stylish pirate patch soon...

The moral of this story is if you ever see a "floater" in your eye that are different than what you normally see, flashes of light, or both, get to the eye doctor immediately! The sooner they can do something about it, the better.