There are quite a few things going on
that have required me to spend time in front of a lathe or a mill, and lately I’ve been making special/custom replacement parts for older machines or new parts for machines I’m building
I have a couple floaters in my right eye that are just pinpricks. They look like a CCD that has lost a pixel, except that they move.
I have Positional Vertigo, due to spending a lot of time around a lot of LOUD machinery. it causes me to sometimes have the sensation that I am moving, when i am not. This is exacerbated by changes in the weather.
Sometimes, when conditions are just right, the little black floaters wander around making me think I have bees nearby; they sort of move like that.
Sometimes, catching the movement of a machine in auto out of the corner of my eye triggers the positional vertigo, and adding the vertigo to the machine movement to the temp changes and the sensation of being swarmed by bees… well, it’s just hell to get old. Overlay this on being as busy as a three peckered goat… Anyone got a padded cell I could move into for a couple weeks?
What? You bounce?
Old age is not for the weak. Trying to keep everything working is getting to be a full time job.
Stay healthy as the alternative sucks
The little floaters are interesting…just another “bug”…err… “feature” of growing older. Old age is not for the faint of heart or the humorless, cause ya are gonna need plenty o both!
…And a larger “weekly pill container”…and stronger glasses… and hearing devices ….
The vertigo likely originates with the ear abuse you’ve recently reported. It does with me.
Leicht 33-db muffs worn over some 20-db earplugs MAY give you some relief.
Some of that. I also have trouble with otoconia.
The Epley Maneuver can be a great help with positional vertigo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
Yep. Hard to do while operating a lathe though.