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.

I take my Beloved to the airport in a little while. EEeep.

Here comes another bout of sleepless nights!

It's edging into winter in South Africa now. I keep telling myself it was great to have had him home for this long, but it's still hard to let him go.

The good news is that the Universe conspired to get a whole lot of random things done around the house before he left. Like, our gutter guy showed up at random this morning, and my honey also figured out why the freezer was leaking (defrost drain hole was plugged).

This past weekend, he changed our cell service to a new provider, so not only are we paying less (he doesn't need all those minutes now that he's phasing out his mortgage business) but I got a new phone for free! It looks like this:

http://www.slashphone.com/media/data/1029/metro-pink-w580-2.jpg

I thought I wanted a white one, but they didn't have any in white and the white ones have orange accents and I dislike orange with an irrational passion. *has school colors flashbacks*

So, anyway, awesome phone and a pair of Nike Frees that I just love. They look like this:

http://www.amazon.de/Nike-Womens-Free-5-0V3-316573-041/dp/B000UDTOUO

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In other news, I will be having a laser procedure on my right eye implant on Friday. A YAG laser capsulotomy. They told me that my chances of developing a posterior capsule opacity were really high because I was so young to have cataract surgery in the first place. My relative youth means I have a very good immune system, and the capsule is basically an immune response to the ocular implant. This explains it a little better:

http://www.eyemdlink.com/EyeProcedure.asp?EyeProcedureID=24

Basically, my vision in my right now sucks. Things are as dark and dingy as they were before the cataract surgery, and the doctor deemed it bad enough for the YAG. The good news is, after the YAG, the capsule will not grow back. Ever. Now you would think it would, since the implant is still not made of my body's natural proteins, and my immune system is still quite healthy. But *shrug* it has never happened.

So, my vision is about to get LOADS better in my right eye. Again. I'm looking forward to it. Still 20/20 in the left eye. Wheeeeeee!