The Big DumpTruck

I think I’m on the upswing with the eye thing. I called the doctor yesterday just to ask if I should be concerned that I hadn’t seen ANY improvement since my visit on Thursday, and he gave me a piece of information that he’d neglected to mention when I was there…it takes 7-10 days for this kind of viral infection to run its course. There is no medication to help it, unless the infection is caused by the same herpes virus that gives you cold sores, and if I had that one my eyes would have sores on them. So thank God for small miracles. But this morning I think they look a little better, less swollen, and one of them was significantly less goopy. (Is that too much information?) And I did get hit with this last Wednesday, so this is day 7-ish. I guess I only have a couple more days to put up with it.

On the other hand, the cold symptoms don’t seem to be improving and are getting worse. I’m psyched. Cause if I have to be ill in one area of my body, I want to be sick in ALL of them. Earache, sore throat, c’mon, I can take ’em all.

“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.)