Amaurosis fugax

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No, it’s not the name of one of the pulled up weeds that you partly see piled high in two wheelbarrows and one bucket….

On April 22 at 06:00 hrs I woke up blind in my left eye and the eyesight in my right eye was not too swift. I immediately called the EMS and while waiting I gave myself a stroke test which came out negative but just the same I took a good dose of aspirin not waiting for a clot buster. At approximately 10:00 after having a head CT scan my eyesight completely returned in the left eye. I am not going to go through the list of tests done to rule out the cause of this but the results were all negative. It was finally determined by all the specialists that this temporary blindness called Amaurosis fugax was an adverse reaction to the covid19 vaccine I had taken. This incident was duly recorded and reported.
Now this brings me to the right eye. While blind in the left eye I noted that my vision was very blurry in the unaffected right eye. The ophthalmologist informed me that I had cataracts in both eyes the right being worse. So May, June and July were spent removing the cataracts and recovering from such surgery which meant not straining and no bending down of my head. This meant no gardening for three months! My whole garden went to pot and became completely overgrown the aggressive weed that goes by the name of Smartweed. It is called that not because of any intellectual capacities it has, rather if eaten it will give a burning sensation to the tongue to make it smart(hurt). Now into August I have started to salvage my garden by pulling these weeds out and here you see them in the wheelbarrows. I have accepted the fact that my garden has become a neglected disaster this year but happily I will be able to clearly see next years garden, both mine and yours my GOY friends:)

• 15 Aug, 2021
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