P.S. on my eye

In case you were concerned, don't be. The eye is fine. I just had what is called a "separation", and it didn't damage the retina at all. That I am very pleased about. Apparently it happens to most people at some time--usually later, much later--in their life, but my myopic astigmatism put me more at risk. Anyway, no lasting damage, just a few annoying floaty things that will eventually go away.

Now if I could just recognise immediately that an uncomfortable contact lens might just be an inside-out contact lens instead of suffering it and being irritable for several hours thinking it was an after-effect of the nasty pupil-dilation potion that was stung into both eyes yeseterday during the tests, I might be getting somewhere...