A speck in my eye April 1, 2008

I have speck in my eye. Literally.

You know how sometimes after you wake up or when you squint eyes hard there are these patterns in your eye that move along with your eye? There has a been a black dot in my left eye for the past three days. I called Gannett this morning figuring that this could actually be serious. The nurse told me that it was probably something called a “floater“. It’s a speck, literally, floating in the vitreous humor that casts a shadow on the retina causing me to see a black dot about the diameter of a tooth pick.

It looks kinda like this:

but mine is just one dot and it’s opaque.

It’s been with me for three days now…and according to the nurse probably for life…so I decided to name it. It’s name is Jo-Jo, in honor of Jo-Jo from Horton Hears a Who.

I suppose this side of Heaven I’ll always have a speck in my eye.