@ljmontgo I suspect my are the optic nerve blind spot at the back of our eyes, mainly because my husband sees the same thing and he has not AMD. I have a friend that has been getting injections for wet AMD (which he started out with) for 5 years, and his vision is still good enough for driving. He does use ai audio books that than recorded ones, because he said he can pause, ask ai a question about plot and other, and then continue. AI is apparently good for things other than just search engines.

After my cataracts surgeries i had what u called a 'football' black shape in my vision when i woke up, every day. That went on for probably a year then went away. My ophthalmologist essentially thought i was crazy. He said it wasn't there but every morning i saw it. It went away probably within an hour of my waking up. Sometimes it would reappear if i closed my eyes for a minute and reopened them. I am just glad it's been gone for over 15 years now.

I worked up a couple of images to sort of convey how the size of the ink blots increase and decrease. I'm curious about what the mechanism is that can account for this. The other eye has a different ink blot pattern but also changes similarly.