My Struggles With Eye Floaters

     I know this is going to sound like I'm whining, and maybe I am. With all the difficulties people struggle with out there in the world this might seem like nothing, but I've got to say... These eye-floaters are driving me crazy!! My left eye has been pretty bad for a couple of years now, but just recently (and quite suddenly) my right eye has developed a big glob of a floater right there dead center and it's making me crazy! It's like someone stuck their finger in a big tub of butter and smeared it across my glasses. In fact I have been irrationally cleaning my glasses obsessively, but of course it doesn't do a thing. Here's an image to sort of demonstrate what I'm dealing with.

It sucks. It's especially bad because my work really requires good eyesight. The truth is I shouldn't really be driving. It's bad enough to be considered impairment. And the worst of it is that there's nothing I can do about it. Not really. I've been doing a lot of research on the web and the standard surgery sounds like something I want nothing to do with. I guess they can drain the fluid out of your eyeballs, (hoping the floaters drain with it)  and replace it with some kind of synthetic substance. That sounds nuts! And they say there's only about 50% chance of success. No, I'm not going to do that.
     There's this doctor, John Karickhoff, that has a treatment using lasers to vaporize 'em, but he's in Virginia and wants a couple grand an eye for the 20 minute procedure.  Here's a video from his website.

     Hell, I'd pay it if i had it, but I don't have that kind of money. Also I'm uninsured. I suppose in about a year (Thanks to Obamacare) I'll be able to get insurance, but I'm skeptical that they'll pay much towards this. There's a whole bunch of people out there whose attitude towards eye floaters is to "just get used to them."  I'm telling ya, there's no getting used to this.

     In my research I came across something that said eye-floaters are shown to exacerbate depression, and I can say first-hand that this has been the case with me. I noticed it particularly when my right eye got so bad these last few weeks. Around this same time my depression has really been overwhelming me. I just want to lay in bed with my eyes closed all the time. I can't wait a year for insurance that may or may not help pay for a treatment on the other side of the country, and hope I don't get in a wreck on the freeway in the meantime. And yet that's exactly what I'm going to have to do. I probably won't be able to afford it even then.

     I'll welcome any comments or suggestions  but if you just say, "Get used to it."...!