Month: February 2006

“Sweet baby Jesus, are you kidding? I’ve got too much to live for!”

Oh man, my eyes are just not getting any better. I guess I’m going to have to call the opthamologist tomorrow and ask if there should be some improvement by now. I assumed that after 4 days on the steroid drops I’d be looking and feeling better, but I look and feel exactly the same. Well, add on a sore throat and my ear bothering me (they may be connected, but I don’t know if it’s an earache making the throat hurt or the throat making the ear hurt.

And we’re getting 20 inches of snow today.

If you need me, I think I’ll be in bed.

[Crap, I had a whole huge post and when I tried to upload the new smaller version of the eye movie Firefox crapped the bed and shut down and I lost my post. BOO! Well now it’s up. 740K or so. It might work better if you right click and save to your computer before running it.]

I’m starting to get depressed. I don’t think my eyes are any better today than they were Wednesday or Thursday. Shouldn’t I be seeing some improvement? And to top it off, my throat is getting scratchy/sore so something else is brewing. Fantastic. I want to be sick and have swollen icky eyes. I guess the Rhino treatment didn’t really work.

I sent the boys off to ski without me today. Junior has his lesson (which is either his last or next to last class, I can’t remember) and Mr. Dump will buy a half day pass. They called to tell me it’s absolutely gorgeous out there and snow looks amazing. Great, glad I’m missing it! Instead, I can play “fight the crowds for the last loaf of bread” at the grocery store. Maybe I can touch my eye and then touch stuff so that nobody will fight me for it. Bwa ha ha ha.

Actually, maybe I’ll go to Target instead. They have some of the stuff I need, and maybe the crowds won’t be as bad. They couldn’t be worse, right? And then I can get a Starbucks Cafe Mocha to walk around with as a consolation prize.

I videotaped the medical treatment I received today, and I turned it into an animated GIF so you can view it right in your browser window. It’s less than 1.5 meg.

Medical Treatment Movie

(Oh, okay, the “after” is from a old photo. Just to be upfront.)

I did see my regular doctor yesterday, who didn’t have to look very long or hard to say that I probably wasn’t having allergy problems. No kidding. I have the eyes of the undead. Little children run and hide. People at work give me double-takes. That’s the hardest one to deal with. I feel like such a freak. If they’re giving me double takes, I want it to be for something other than my blood red eyes.

So he gave me drops and said he didn’t know if they’d help because he assumes I have a form of viral conjunctivitis. I said I didn’t care what he gave me as long as it gave me some relief. The burning and itching were driving me crazy by then, especially because it was moving into the other eye. He said it looked like my right eye was a little swollen (I could have told you that. In fact, I believe I did.) and I might have to go to an opthamologist to get steriods to deal with the swelling. He told me if I wasn’t better by Friday I should call one for an appointment.

Well, I’m calling one today. My right eye was so swollen this morning that it looked flat from my cheek up to my eyebrow…as if there was no eye socket. It’s a little better now because I’ve been putting cold compresses on them, but it is affecting my vision and I’m a little afraid to drive all the way to work in case it actually gets worse. That’s all I need is to be stuck in New Hampshire with my eyes swollen shut.

So there you go. Another fun day of eye problems. I tried to take a photo with my camera and I made a point to turn on the red eye reduction feature but damned if my eyes aren’t still horribly red. Stupid camera.