How do you guys like those hardtails?
Warning, if blood and eyeballs ain't your thing, don't continue reading...
So y'all remember that crash I was whining about? Well, turned out that it probably did rattle my noggin around a bit. I tore my retina in my right eye - it presented a week ago on Tuesday. I was grabbing some ice at a gas station on the way out of Poncha Springs, CO when all of a sudden I couldn't see out of that eye - just a big light blur.
Went to an eye doctor in Alamosa and he couldn't make a proper diagnosis because just like I couldn't see out, neither he nor his instruments could see into my eyeball. He suspected a "vitreous hemorrhage," which isn't that big of a deal, but he got me into a retina specialist on an emergency basis the next day in Albuquerque (2.5 hours away from Taos).
So I woke up and my eyesight had cleared significantly. Went from 20/50 on Tuesday to 20/30 on Wednesday. So cool, right?
Well turned out I had a very large horseshoe shaped tear in my retina, which had opened up a blood vessel, which caused the temporary blindness due to the blood in my eyeball.
Doc prescribes and performs a laser procedure to fix this, which he did right on the spot. No fun whatsoever, but not as bad as the fix for the torn/detached retina in my left eye a few years ago. Doc suspected the bike crash as a contributing factor.
Anyways, I'm off the bike for a bit. Which is a huge bummer because I got some new components and lost a few pounds and my performance was progressing nicely. I'll keep on vicariously through y'all for a while.