{"id":2767,"date":"2025-04-23T23:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:15:34","slug":"the-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror, and my pupils were different sizes. That’s gonna need a trip to the doctor<\/em>, I figured, but it went away when I turned on the big light to get a better look, and again in the morning things seemed fine.<\/p>\n

I stayed up late to see the lunar eclipse, and couldn’t focus both eyes on the moon at the same time. Took a few days until I figured out that one eye wasn’t dilating in the dark, but in well lit settings everything seemed more or less fine.<\/p>\n

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So I finally scheduled that doctor visit.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t sure whether this was a GP issue or optometrist issue, so started with GP. She gave me reqs for a bunch of tests and suggested I see the eye doctor, who was able to identify it as Horner’s Syndrome — a collection of symptoms from an interruption in the sympathetic nerve on that side of the face. He asked if I also wasn’t sweating there, which sounded crazy<\/em>, but I hadn’t been feeling well enough to work up enough sweat to notice. Sure enough, I hopped on the exercise bike afterward and only sweat on one side of my face, which somehow is even more viscerally freaky-deaky than mismatched pupils in the mirror.<\/p>\n

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Now the syndrome points to a common proximal<\/em> cause for those symptoms — that sympathetic nerve block. But the ultimate<\/em> cause of that block could be a dozen things… Most of them bad.<\/p>\n

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Tumours (brain, spine, neck, lung), vascular complications (esp. carotid dissection), MS (already an S-tier fear for me), or perhaps an upper lobe lung infection or abscess in the jaw or sinuses can all potentially be the cause.<\/p>\n

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Never thought I’d be rooting for the bacteria.<\/p>\n

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An MRI will go a long way to figuring out the culprit driving this, and nothing to do now but wait and try not to worry until I get one (it’s in the works).<\/p>\n

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