05-29-2014, 09:03 PM
mjgkramer wrote:
Two days ago I was on the highway driving home from town. Approaching our turn off I suddenly had a thick gray “curtain” block the vision in my right eye and could only see out of the left eye. Normal vision returned after 5 minutes or so, just before I arrived home. I went into the house, took two aspirin and headed for the ER, 15 minutes away. The CT scan and blood test they did were OK but they said I had had a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack) and should see our primary care doctor in the next few days. I saw him yesterday and he put me on Plavix, a blood thinner, in addition to the full strength aspirin I take every day. Scary.
In case you wonder, I have taken cholesterol medication and the values have been very good for many years, I eat a relatively healthy diet, and have never smoked, not even once. However for whatever reasons, I had to have a triple bypass in 2009 and had the left carotid cleaned out in 2010. It does not run in the family to the best of my knowledge and my 97 year old mother is still going strong.
I once went completely black/blind for about 10 minutes in a parking lot. No explanation I could ever come up with.