They navigate into hurricanes and blame me when the ships vanish”) and reasserts the humanity of the marginalized. We meet hookers who are down on their luck, cops who care, but don't want anyone to know and then there is the Keeper of the Cup--an eccentric older man who has little purpose in life except to keep that cup. Treatment for diabetic retinopathy is only necessary if screening detects significant problems that mean your vision is at risk. Most people with PVD are over the age of 50 but you can have a PVD in your 40s, particularly if you’re short-sighted or if your eye has been injured or you’ve had previous eye surgery. Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist The Republic of Poetry.

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Our specialist equipment is able to detect conditions in their early stages, such as glaucoma, diabetes and vitreous detachment - all of which can cause serious damage to your vision if not detected and treated early. When your vision is clearer, you’re more likely to be able to concentrate on the task, rather than on the floaters. If the tear is not treated, it can lead to retinal detachment, a condition that requires urgent surgical treatment. This moves the vitreous inside your eyes and can sometimes move the floater out of your direct line of vision so you’re less aware of it.However, if you have a lot of floaters affecting your vision, you may wish to wait until these have settled before having an eye examination. While this treatment may offer symptomatic relief for some, it is an invasive approach for a condition that doesn’t threaten vision. You should see a specialist if the floaters are appearing more frequently, suddenly, or you are seeing flashes of light.

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Howland: And that can cause blindness, which is why it's especially important to have a dilated eye exam within days of noticing new floaters or changes in vision. The risk of this happening tends to be highest when the symptoms of PVD first begin and in the first six weeks.Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. From time to time, most of us will experience these eye floaters – small specks or shapes, often like cobwebs that seem to dart away when we try to see them more clearly. However, if you start to suddenly notice a lot more floaters or flashes of light in your vision, you should see a specialist as soon as possible. If you don’t remember, don’t know, or don’t care about sailing and the America’s Cup, Floaters will probably be of no interest to you even though it’s a cop novel.