Relentless Inquiry

Loooong day at the conference yesterday. Took the train back to get to a local evening class with Mike, but we were both so tired that we weren't getting much out of it so we punted. Plan was to relax, get to sleep early, take tomorrow at full speed. We went home, stopping to pick up my car at the train station where I'd left it that morning. I reveled in not-wearing the uncomfy but business-fancy outfit I'd been stuck in for 12+ hours, and Mike went out to the kitchen to make a pre-bed snack.

Then Mike called out to me from the other room that his vision had just gone all blurry. GAH. The blur localized in one eye, and wouldn't go away. He didn't feel very good. After a few minutes his vision cleared up, and we briefly wondered what to do next. His pupils had been evenly dilated, he didn't get any tics or tremors. But his family has hella-history of cardio and stroke. If it was a TIA, they'd be able to tell, and those can be precursors. So we trundled off to El Camino Hospital's ER in an orderly, non-panicked fashion.

It was a 'good' night in the ER– we were only there for a couple of hours, getting out around midnight. We learned that there are things called 'ocular migraines' that can have this effect, and a strong clue is they hit both eyes at once, even if they localize afterwards. Mike passed a neurological exam. All was well.

I'd had about a 'my brain is full' worth of the blog conference anyway. It has been much more 'look, see, cool, strategy' than 'tool– here is how you use it'. That's not a fatal flaw, but that combined with notes being available to conf members for download, plus similar descriptions for today's speakers to what I attended yesterday and Wednesday, means punt. I 'slept in' until 7:30am and will water my plants and make an unexpected foray into work, nobly resisting the temptation to catch up on errands since they're planning on my absence today.