There's a woman on Ravelry whose wife is going through bone marrow transplant for cancer, and she's terribly afraid. She's been getting calls to come into the hospital on short notice. I've been giving comfort on the process while not mentioning how it ended for me. What unexpected depths to a board about things to do with yarn.

Yarn... cult tv shows...

Also your compassion is a lovesome thing.

I have been very fortunate in the Internet places I've discovered.

I hope that giving her comfort affords you some too, Connie.

Can anyone answer a scary health question real quick? I've suddenly developed a sort of silver slash across my vision, almost directly in front of my visual field. I'm having trouble reading and typing because I can't see the letters I'm looking at. this just started about ten minutes ago and is getting worse. It's exaxtly the same in both eyes so I don't think the problem is my eyes. Is this another ocular migraine? The blank silver spot is getting bigger and it's scaring me. I haven't eaten in about 17 hours so I'm getting food now in case that's the problem.

It's getting bigger. Started out as a spot, then a line, now it's half a circle. I'm freaking out.

Zen, I have no advice as to what it might be, but if it's scaring you, I'd get someone to look at it. I know that's harder on a Saturday. Maybe there's a clinic nearby?

Well, I can't drive with a third of my vision occluded by a visual field disturbance. If it doesn't get better soon, I'll call my sister, luckily she's in town.

Lots of causes of eye floaters, mostly benign but they do advise having someone look at it if the onset is sudden.