{"id":6248,"date":"2013-04-24T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T23:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2013-04-27T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T22:59:33","slug":"eye-floater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/eye-floater\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Floater ;-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know the exact moment when I got my first eye floater. I was on CCSF campus at a bone marrow drive, October 2, 2012. It was windy and I thought something had gotten into my eye. It only took a few moments to realize that it wasn&#8217;t <strong>on<\/strong> my eye but <strong>in<\/strong> my eye.<\/p>\n<p>I went to an eye doctor who said, &#8220;Yup, you&#8217;ve got a floater.&#8221; It hovers in my right eye, usually below and to the right of the focus of my vision, but it floats&#8230; it lags behind the movement of my eye like the answer-die in a Magic 8 Ball settling in to tell you &#8220;Concentrate and ask again.&#8221; Megan and I named it &#8220;Oliver&#8221; because he is all-over my vision. It bothers me because there is nothing to be done about it and there is a good chance it will never go away, an annoyance and obstruction to my vision for the rest of my life. If I&#8217;m lucky, some day it will catch on something inside my eye and stay in the same spot; then I&#8217;ll hardly ever notice it. But for the last six months, and right now as I write this, it hovers in front of every blank surface I look at: computer screens, blank walls, blue skies.<\/p>\n<p>Blah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the exact moment when I got my first eye floater. I was on CCSF campus at a bone marrow drive, October 2, 2012. It was windy and I thought something had gotten into my eye. It only took a few moments to realize that it wasn&#8217;t on my eye but in my eye. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}