Apr 19 2001
I had a horrible scare
I had a horrible scare today. I was working really hard on summarizing a long and dry deposition (paint chemistry just doesn’t turn my crank) when I started noticing little blind spots in my vision. When looking at a letter “A” for instance, a good 1/3 of it would be gone, as if the copier hadn’t worked properly. But when I looked around my office space, everything appeared normal. I went back to reading the depo thinking that I must be getting tired and it was no big deal. Within the space of a few minutes, things grew drastically worse. I could hardly focus on anything. The whole world seemed to swim around sickeningly. I panicked. I thought I was going blind.
During the height of my panick attack, I spoke to one of the attorneys in our office who had been pregnant before and she assured me that blurring of the vision was quite normal as long as it didn’t last a really long time. I felt much better after talking to her and sure enough, within 20 minutes, I could see again.
Experiences like this remind me that I really should do more reading about symptoms than I have been doing so I won’t panick when something else occurs. Unfortunately, I’ve had a hard time relating to what’s described in books like “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.” There must be a better reference out there.
