A Twist of Things to Come

Whatever the doc gave me sure was potent. My throat and nasal passages are back to normal size (lots of the soft parts inside my head had begun to look like alarmingly over-inflated balloon animals). I no longer feel like I'm swallowing needles.YAY! That was also pretty much true yesterday, but I was still muzzy in the brains.

You know how when you've got a fever you do things that seem reasonable at the time only to go back later and think, "What the heck was doing?" It's kind of like having a split personality. "But I don't remember putting canned goods in the freezer!" Yeah, I know.

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The software I use for uploading stuff to the website just got an upgrade! That is awesome, and I hope the new interface will be easier. Except the "Write New Entry" button has vanished from the front-end dashboard. I've got a call in about that. Oh, and the feed has been automatically reset to show only the first 300 characters, so that needs to be fixed again. *sigh* It will be fixed soon, I hope. I can always go back to the old version.

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Counting today's little blessings:

1). On the MA list, someone responded to my post in the "Remember the Love!" thread like this:

Just to add - I think you are one of the most talented writers in the whole group. I hope you keep posting.

*sniffle* I really needed that today.

2). Also, I really needed help wrestling the ginormous dog food bag into my cart at BJ's. And you know what? A little old lady stopped to help. She couldn't help me with the bag, but she held my cart still so I didn't have to chase it all over. She said, "I've been in that position before, and men just walk right by you." LOL!

3). Went for my long overdue eye exam, in which the doctor once again held forth on how amazing it is that I am able to see so well now. Before my cataract surgery four years ago, my prescription was -17 which he said he'd seen maybe ten otherwise healthy patients with eyesight that bad in his 30 years of practice. That didn't make a big impression on me, because my sister's pre-op vision was even worse than that, in her better eye.

He told me about a colleague of his who started Optometry Giving Sight who met a boy in Africa, who was in a school for the blind, with vision like mine. Glasses made a huge difference in his life. He got an education and earned a full scholarship to University in England, where he is now studying to be an eye surgeon.

I didn't think about it. I didn't realize just how blessed I am simply to be able to see, to drive my car, to have gotten a regular education.

I did not earn any of these blessings, but today I was able to take a moment and appreciate them.