…well its been an interesting week..

Sunday was spent recovering from Saturday’s 12 mile jog, Monday bank holiday was spent weeding, cutting the grass, trimming the hedge, getting rid of back garden debris and what I thought would be a 2 hour job turned into 7 hours of gardening followed by a well earned small fish supper with my folks (my mum did an amazing job of ridding my border of all weeds)!  Tuesday back at work – meetings in Bellshill and Paisley followed by a trip straight to bed because of a monster headache and also had a jittery jiggly right eye and a twitching eye lid… not quite a migraine but enough to make me cancel my cycling trip and close the curtains to limit light in.   I wondered if this was related to a dark patch in my eye last week..    Wednesday awoke with a slight headache and decided to book myself an optician appointment for the afternoon just in case.   The optician confirmed that I’d had a bleed in my eye because of the jelly (vitreous gel) inside ripping away from the anchor point at the bottom…  it will heal up but they referred me to the Royal Alexandria Hospital in Paisley as a precaution because it may cause a retina detachment.  If they deem it necessary they can laser it in place.

And here’s the science:

The back cavity of the inner eye is filled with clear jelly called vitreous.

		Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD)

Normally the jelly is only loosely adherent to the retina. However, occasionally, the vitreous jelly is so adherent to the retina and pulls so hard on it that it creates a tear. If this tear is along a blood vessel of the retina this may cause bleeding into the vitreous (called a vitreous hemorrhage) which could lead to a shower of floaters which cloud the vision. Acute retinal tears with or without flashes and floaters pose a risk because fluid can enter through the tear under the retina and lift the retina off, causing a retinal detachment, much like damp wallpaper peeling from the wall. Since Posterior Vitreous Detachments are usually the initiating event of most retinal detachments, this is why PVDs are such a concern.

Retinal “Horseshoe” Tear

Horseshoe tear with retinal vessel involvement

So that’s my excuse for no training Sunday to Wednesday this past week!