It's the Strangest Thing

 


My eyes and the Moderna Covid 19 vaccination




I wrote yesterday  about the odd ocular phenomenon as I drove home after my first vacc.  The street lights; and the headlights of oncoming cars seemed to have what I can only call a jagged halo, or corona.


This image of the Sun, from a children's book, "sort of" how I perceived those lights. A centre light and a jagged halo.

I drove with great caution, and was glad to arrive home, safe and sound.

This morning as I walked Zion at 5:00 a.m. I saw the oddest thing. From every street light and outdoors house light I perceived a beam of light, quite separate from the ambient light.

For illustration only


'Twas all very odd. We are not used to seeing individual beams.  

 In fact,  when I walked through a street with four houses on the same side, each with an outdoors light, I saw four beams, first far apart, and then converging into one beam at my point of sight.

Soon after 6:00 a.m. I took to the roads again, on my way to a Sarasota Memorial Hospital outpost for a blood draw.  My primary care physician not only wants my money, she also asks for my blood!

As I drove, I once again "saw" the jagged halo effect from street lights and oncoming car headlights.

What is this all about?

Maybe I'll never know.

It's not listed as a possible side effect for the Moderna Vaccine.  I have enrolled in the CDC follow up site, so I have checked with them, just to be sure.

One friend suggested that it could be a symptom of hypertension, but although hypertension can cause eyesight problems; the reputable sites (Mayo Clinic and Loma Linda Hospital) do not mention individual light beans as a symptom of hypertension.

It could be that I have an eye infection - my eyes have recently been very itchy.  I have thought this to be an allergic reaction to Oak tow, but maybe I  am wrong.  If this condition continues I will most certainly schedule an appointment with an Ophthalmologist. 

I ask a favour from all you:  Please do not suggest a diagnosis unless you know more than the CDC; or the Mayo Clinic; or the Loma Linda Hospital.  I beg of you!

In the meantime you should know that my friend Steve C who lives in Atlanta (and whose birthday it is today) suggested that I should take to the airways and blogs to proclaim "Alleluia I've found the light"

I declined lest my Face Book friends might conclude that my new light beams emanate from Mara Largo.





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