Newfie wrote:Just had a short scare that (hopefully) turns out to be just some thing weird and goes away.
I experienced a “ VISUAL MIGRAINE”.
All of a sudden I had a partial circle of jagged bright edges and blind in the center. Started in the left eye but moved to both. It lasted maybe 10-15 minutes. I looked it up (google) and found a PERFECT description of what I was experiencing. Although it was damn hard to read the screen with all this nonsense going on.
The happy part is it does not have any pain and seems to be a passing thing. Not a big deal but scared me a bit. First thing I looked up was “stroke symptoms.”
Something I’ll have to keep an “eye” on. LOL
In the meantime I found out those shooting stars I see in the corner of my eye is the eye fluid getting thick and tugging on the retina. Yet another “benefit” of growing older, periodic fireworks.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Newfie wrote:Merry Christmas to all the old geezers here, and the other guy also.
I’ll consider it. Not so easy to do in St Martin.
Newfie wrote:In the meantime I found out those shooting stars I see in the corner of my eye is the eye fluid getting thick and tugging on the retina.
It appears likely that the visual aura relates to a phenomenon called “cortical spreading depression” which temporarily affects electrical impulses in the brain.
Newfie wrote:Had a tough night. Moved from St Maarten to St Barths today. Checked in and walked around town, had lunch, did some food shopping. Got back to the boat about 3pm. Anchored in a tight mooring field.
Have I g some weird weather, fog and drizzle this am. This pm we had a bunch of squalls, fairly heavy. Most people were not on their boats being in town. The wind is about 95% somewhere NE to SE and the boats were anchors for that. But diff ere t folks let out more or less chain so that when the wind moves you relationship to other boats changes. I was watching our boat all evening and saw two other boats hit. The wind swung over 180° and we were getting close to another boat, when all of a sudden it took a strong swing. I was in the process of letting chain out to swing behind the guy and ALMOST made it but was too slow. Did some minor damage to our pulpit rail and who knows what to his boat. They eventually came back but I could not get him to talk to me.??????
So after a while I was adjusting our chain when we hit hit by two big waves, which broke the shackle holding the anchor to the chain. Which is quite amazing because it was completely oversized and the shackle pin was held on with dissing wire. The wave also flipped our dingy.
I motored out of there slowly dragging the dink with us upside down. Got to a different spot that has fewer people around, but not a @normal” anchorage. Got a spare anchor down, got the dink up and the engine off, cleaned it up and got it started. Lost a pair of oats and some small items and the one pair of shoes that do not give me blisters.
Tomorrow the outboard goes back in the dink and I go diving for the anchor. It was $1,200 when I bought it 6 years ago. I’ve a good GPS fix in the location so I have a fair chance of finding it.
On the other hand my Wife has not divorced me over this episode and we didn’t scream at each other and she only cried once for a very short time. We had to lost too much, especially if I find the anchor. Most especially, no one was hurt. So that makes it a good night.
As they say, what doesn’t kill ya.....
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