On 15 Dec 2005 07:23:24 -0800, "BJ Conner"
wrote:

The expensive rubber band I have around my right eye is to reattach a
detached retna. I was very lucky.
One of the symptoms of detached retna is floaters. The best way I can
describe what I had was that I was seeing gnats. It was like the
little black gnats that hang around ripe fruit. I was seening them fly
around sporadically but they weren't there. If you see gnats get your
ass to the doctor without delay. My eyesight was saved by a nurse who
knew what it was and wouldn't let me wait a day, if she had had a
pistol she would have pulled it on me and put me in the trunk of the
car to get me to the surgeon.


You can have floaters with no other problems, though. Mine look a lot
like biology stuff of lines of cells. I've had them at least since
early teen years. My only eye problems so far have been
nearsightedness.

Cyli
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