Woke up the other day with several eye floaters in my way, those stupid spots & lines in your eyes. Since I seldom if ever notice getting those, I looked up what the meaning of it might be. Apparently aging of your eyes is a cause, but if you get a bunch all at once it could possibly indicate a retinal tear. But since I don’t have any blurring of my vision, or dark areas, I’m risking that it doesn’t mean that and are just ordinary floaters.

My one sister told me to go find an Amsler Grid (like this: https://www.brightfocus.org/macular/publication/amsler-grid-eye-test ) and look at it using one eye at a time, and check if I see any dark spots or if the lines look wavy. If I did, there could be a problem. I didn’t see anything amiss.

Generally, due to eye sensitivity I wear blue-blocker glasses anytime I’m on computer, and it definitely helps my eyes get less tired. But I found I was avoiding looking at my phone, because it is so bright and everything’s so small. Mike made me go into the iphone settings and find where to not only enlarge the text, but check all the changes I could make in the Accessibility section of Settings. iPhones have a whole lot of controls, and while I couldn’t lower the brightness enough to completely help, you can experiment with the color values to see if something makes the phone easier to look at.

I need to keep in mind that the word "Accessibility" is code for Adaptations for handicaps.


I ended up changing my entire phone to Grayscale. It’s much dimmer and more comfortable… but one drawback is that new alerts and notifications do not stand out. I missed seeing new messages from one sister. Generally, though, it’s nice. Reminds me of the old Palm Pilot and other PDA screens, and my rather aged Kindle, which uses the old gray background with dark gray type.