So... overnight my rabbit was attacked by a cat. I broke up the fight, and noticed my rabbit had a weird leg injury.
So this morning I made a vet appointment, long story short - rabbit has a partially or very torn knee ligament (and is also arthritic, and has hip dysplasia <he's 8.5 years old>).
So I get some painkillers, etc, and am waiting to check out.
Suddenly, I noticed I have a blind spot in each eye, right below whatever I'm looking at. "Wtf? Blind spots only exist to the sides" Then I look at some other things... Wait, I've got blinds spots all over my field of vision..... I can see what's right in front of me, and there are weird blind spots all over the rest of my vision...
I pay, and get in the car... suddenly, in addition to spots, there are suddenly very fast-strobe-like tiny Christmas lights arcing across my eyes.
"Do I drive to the hospital? Do I call 911? do I go to my eye doctor?"
We moved recently, but still go to the vet near where we used to live... who happens to be about 1 mile from my eye doctor... so wtf, I drive over there.
I run in and go "I don't have an appointment, but I just had a change in my vision, and have lost part of it"
They make sure to get my new insurance card, copy it, give it back, and then rush me back.
Dilate my pupils, do an exam, etc... and it just stops. Vision goes back to normal.
I went partially blind in my left eye a year or two ago while at work. If I remember correctly, I lost all vision to the left. Freaked me out.
I regained normal vision within 30 minutes and started to piece together what could have caused it to occur.
Sitting at my desk it dawned on me that the cause was one of those USB lava lamps that's actually nothing more than glitter in water. Working normally at my desk, it sat in my field of vision exactly where the blindness occurred.
That got tossed in the garbage and I've never experienced anything like it before or since.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
No headache. Apparently both my mom and dad have been getting this for years. My dad, being a doctor, knew what it was when his first one happened, so didn't panic.
Yes, I was scared. It was scary and freaky. Cuz the only way I knew of to have that type of vision loss was stroke.
No, the cat ran as soon as it saw me. Follow up: Our rabbit, Bear, died overnight. He was the most person-friendly rabbit we had (almost doglike), so it's hitting pretty hard. So he either got too stressed out by it, or there was some internal injury that wasn't diagnosed.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
When I was about ten and my brother was about 9 we visited my aunt.
Every time we went back to the house we'd go out and play with the bunnies. My little brother was quicker than me and would always get the white rabbit. I'd choose one of the many brown ones.
One night we were eating BBQ chicken on the steps of the porch when my mom came up and asked how dinner was.
We said it was good.
She asked if we knew what we were eating.
"Chicken!"
Then she said, "No. It's rabbit."
"Where did they get the rabbit?"
The next morning my brother's white rabbit was gone.
To this day my brother remembers all of that story except for the part where his rabbit was missing the next day, which amuses me even more.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I went blind in my left eye sitting at work one day. I might have mentioned this before.
I had a USB powered lava lamp, but instead of lava it was filled with glitter. It had been located behind me for a year, but one day I moved it to my left just within my peripheral vision. Later that day, I simply stopped being able to see out of my left eye for 20-30 minutes. I removed the lava lamp, and have not had the same experience since.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
