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Fairportfan · Post by **Fairportfan** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:22 pm

I'm about halfway through a painless migraine; roughly half of my field of vision has paisley sparklies overlaid on it, and they "crawl", because they're off-center and my eyes keep trying to track them.

Jabberwonky · Post by **Jabberwonky** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:19 pm

I get that with 'floaters' a fair amount. My eyes keep trying to focus on them...

Fairportfan · Post by **Fairportfan** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:50 pm

Jabberwonky wrote:I get that with 'floaters' a fair amount. My eyes keep trying to focus on them...

...and they move with your eyes...

Jabberwonky · Post by **Jabberwonky** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:36 pm

Tha' little bastards.

Post by **Dave** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:00 pm

Damn... sorry to hear that. One of the guys I work with had an "optical migraine" of that sort a couple of months ago; scared the hell out of him until the on-site doctors recognized the symptoms and told him that no, he wasn't having a stroke.

I had a somewhat similar thing occur as the result of an allergic reaction (to Georgio perfume) some years ago... but it did hurt like hell, and in addition to my vision going wonky, I developed a case of short-term aphasia. Couldn't speak worth a darned... couldn't even form the words. Really frightening!

Fairportfan · Post by **Fairportfan** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:00 am

Dave wrote:Damn... sorry to hear that. One of the guys I work with had an "optical migraine" of that sort a couple of months ago; scared the hell out of him until the on-site doctors recognized the symptoms and told him that no, he wasn't having a stroke.

I had a somewhat similar thing occur as the result of an allergic reaction (to Georgio perfume) some years ago... but it did hurt like hell, and in addition to my vision going wonky, I developed a case of short-term aphasia. Couldn't speak worth a darned... couldn't even form the words. Really frightening!

Boy, i'd KNOW i was having a stroke if that happened to me.

NOTDilbert · Post by **NOTDilbert** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:57 am

I had a stroke and had no idea - until I looked in a mirror and saw the right side of my face slumped. Then I tried to say "What the hell?" - and it sounded like my mouth was full of marbles. Woke up that way one morning....

And if you're a telephone operator like me, you DON'T want to sound like that. It eventually went away - but I still have memory issues and 'loose the right words' sometimes.

Jabberwonky · Post by **Jabberwonky** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:08 am

NOTDilbert wrote:I had a stroke and had no idea - until I looked in a mirror and saw the right side of my face slumped. Then I tried to say "What the hell?" - and it sounded like my mouth was full of marbles. Woke up that way one morning....

And if you're a telephone operator like me, you DON'T want to sound like that. It eventually went away - but I still have memory issues and 'loose the right words' sometimes.

I had that happen to me and when I called my doctor he made me get a ride to see him as fast as possible. If I didn't have someone to drive me, he was going to send and ambulance. Turned out I had Bell's Palsey, inflammation of the nerves that operate the facial muscles. Steroids and B12 chased it away after 3-4 weeks. Just a major annoyance, but scary until I knew better...

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:29 am

Happy to hear it turned out to be something manageable, if not minor.

After having my wisdom teeth out, I woke up about 3AM in a cold sweat wondering where I was. Boo, hiss Percodan.

They got me something else and it worked more gently.

Jabberwonky · Post by **Jabberwonky** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 3:19 am

Atomic wrote:...I woke up about 3AM in a cold sweat wondering where I was.

I can remember when that was the description of a good night out...

scantrontb · Post by **scantrontb** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:24 am

Jabberwonky wrote:
Atomic wrote:...I woke up about 3AM in a cold sweat wondering where I was.
I can remember when that was the description of a good night out...

I think the part of that phrase you forgot to add is: "Back in MY day..."

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:42 pm

scantrontb wrote:
Jabberwonky wrote:
Atomic wrote:...I woke up about 3AM in a cold sweat wondering where I was.
I can remember when that was the description of a good night out...
I think the part of that phrase you forgot to add is: "Back in MY day..."

Get off my lawn!

shadowinthelight · Post by **shadowinthelight** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:58 pm

Atomic wrote:
scantrontb wrote:I think the part of that phrase you forgot to add is: "Back in MY day..."
Get off my lawn!

I'm just waiting for someone to walk uphill, barefoot, in the snow.

Mark N · Post by **Mark N** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:08 pm

shadowinthelight wrote:
Atomic wrote:
scantrontb wrote:I think the part of that phrase you forgot to add is: "Back in MY day..."
Get off my lawn!
I'm just waiting for someone to walk uphill, barefoot, in the snow.

You forgot to place "Both ways" at the end of that statement. (Thank you Bill Cosby)

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:06 pm

Mark N wrote:
shadowinthelight wrote:
Atomic wrote:quote="scantrontb" I think the part of that phrase you forgot to add is: "Back in MY day..."/quote
Get off my lawn!
I'm just waiting for someone to walk uphill, barefoot, in the snow.
You forgot to place "Both ways" at the end of that statement. (Thank you Bill Cosby)

Hauling the bucket of milk you got from the cow that day...

And this fancy internet stuff? Why, I remember when we had to carve our electrons by hand, the stuff them into the wire with a little funnel and eyedropper. Don't tell me how hard life is!

ActionKermit · Post by **ActionKermit** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:01 pm

When I was a boy, we still made sounds and emitted body heat like some kind of animals.

shadowinthelight · Post by **shadowinthelight** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 8:34 pm

Atomic wrote:And this fancy internet stuff? Why, I remember when we had to carve our electrons by hand, the stuff them into the wire with a little funnel and eyedropper. Don't tell me how hard life is!

At least you had electrons. Do you know how hard it is to transmit 0s and 1s with burning embers?

Jabberwonky · Post by **Jabberwonky** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:32 pm

shadowinthelight wrote:
Atomic wrote:And this fancy internet stuff? Why, I remember when we had to carve our electrons by hand, the stuff them into the wire with a little funnel and eyedropper. Don't tell me how hard life is!
At least you had electrons. Do you know how hard it is to transmit 0s and 1s with burning embers?

ooOOoo.
Ones AND zeros, aren't we the lucky ones. I remember when it was nothing but naughts. Try and send a message like that.
Kids today...

Jabberwonky · Post by **Jabberwonky** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:36 pm

ActionKermit wrote:When I was a boy, we still made sounds and emitted body heat like some kind of animals.

(I must admit that my body is still making animal noises. Mostly without my permission.)

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:36 pm

shadowinthelight wrote:
Atomic wrote:And this fancy internet stuff? Why, I remember when we had to carve our electrons by hand, the stuff them into the wire with a little funnel and eyedropper. Don't tell me how hard life is!
At least you had electrons. Do you know how hard it is to transmit 0s and 1s with burning embers?

Fancy you! You had fire! Hmmmph.

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