Well, this helps. Couldn’t find a usable eye patch at the drug store, but Amazon to the rescue!




What's wrong with my right eye? Well, nothing really, except for advancing cataracts. The problem is that the two eyes aren't working well together. They haven't for some years now, but the horizontal double vision was fixed by a prism correction in my glasses in 2021. But last Friday, the image in my right eye suddenly slipped down a fraction of an inch, giving me a complex mish-mash of double vision that was no longer correctible by my existing glasses. 

After a dismal weekend wondering if I was about to go blind, I got an appointment Tuesday morning with Dr. Marcie, my regular optometrist. A friendly technician checked my eye pressures, and they were both perfectly normal, so at least it wasn't glaucoma. I then spent a full hour with Marcie, who checked my retinas and so on (healthy except for advancing cataracts). She quickly found a new prism correction that fixes the problem. However, it will take 2 weeks to get the new lenses made, and the vision I have right now is ... problematic. I can see acceptably out of either eye, just not both of them together. I added an ersatz eyeshade made out of black paper to my computer glasses, and was then able to use my computer monitor again. But these clever slip-on glasses shades work even better. 

The cataracts are not causing this problem, but I have to wait until this new issue stabilizes (at least 90 days) before I move forward with the cataract question. Which gives me time to look around, and maybe even schedule an appointment with Park Nicollet Eye Care (which takes MONTHS).  I'm working on that now. I can always cancel that appointment if I decide to go somewhere else.