One long week...

Rt. Eye really smarts today like it did last Sunday, but it's been a long week.  Hopefully with rest it will improve.  The eye is wanting me to 'splint' it, as Holmes would say.  I'm moving my head instead of my eyes and letting my lid be partially closed.
4/25/10 Awoke with the same pain not as severe as last night - took two ibup.  Pain returns by noon.  I took two tylenol tension headache - and went to the Kingdom Hall.  Absolutely no change actually got way worse - entire quadrant aches.  Ended up 45 min. into mtg going in the back and laying down after crying for a minute out of shear frustration. Felt a little relief after closing my eyes for 1/2 hour.  Now I'm home and just took 4 ibuprofen and am going to sleep for a bit so hopefully that will knock it out as I have plenty to do.  Very frustrated today.  Again, I'm not complaining really I'm just leaving my frustrations here on the blog.  No pity please just let me vent.

6 Months Gone

Yesterday Kari and I went down to Rochester for my 6 mo. check up.  It went good.  I was very stressed in anticipation of what the doctor would say happened when he spoke with Dr. Egghead.  All of that stress is for naught as Egghead didn't go to the conference so my dr. wasn't able to speak to him.  Maybe in October.  Which is fine.  It will give me more time to chill.

My eyes are doing just fine.  My rt eye is still hypertropic which I knew but I'm glad he saw it instead of me pointing it out.  Then tonight at the Kingdom Hall all my friends were asking me how it went, when I mentioned my rt eye is still higher they told me they already noticed that.  AWK!  I thought it was my little secret.  But that's okay. I don't see double and that's what matters. Oh and of course my head is straight!  I love it.

I laughed at that silly camera he always pulls out.  I just picture myself in the medical dictionary, you know the one that you just page through and cringe with horror.  Only most of those the persons eyes are blocked out.  Only with EYE surgery there's no blocking out of eyes.  :)

Kari and I laughed all the way home about when Holmes said EVERYONE  has to get reading glasses after age 40!  HA!  I am 36.  I do not want to think about my 40's thank you.   But Kari and I have been together since we were toddlers so we have been aging together.  We recalled the time we were in 9th grade in the lunch room lamenting that we would never get to be seniors.  Well that was a few years back. 

I told them about the 3D movies.  They did say that I wouldn't have been able to see it before surgery. So that was cool.  I thought the technology was so great anyone could see that.  But they said no.  So That makes my 3D movie experiment that much more exciting.  

Today my eye hurt for most of the day.  I'm just too tired this week.  The doctor mentioned he could inject something into it if he needed.  I'd rather eat shards of glass!  I have a fear of needles in my eyes thanks to Egghead.

So all in all.  It was just fine. No need to stress the way I did.  Those 3 people at Mayo are so nice to me I wish I could do something wonderful for each of them. Ginny, Sarah and Dr. Holmes.  God Bless them all.

Eye Indicator

Tomorrow I go down again to Mayo for my 6 mo. check up. I'm anxious about it but don't really know why.  My eyes are great.  I just haven't gotten a lot of sleep this past few days not because I can't sleep.  I just don't go to bed.  Mostly due to my silly Brother and his adorable wife talking til the wee wee hours on Skype.
My eye now has a new function. " Sleep indicator" when I need to sleep it sends me a strong signal to go to bed.
The signal makes you grab your eye and grab your ibuprofen bottle. Just like after you get hit in the face with a baseball bat! I hadn't experienced this much 'feeling' in weeks.  I appreciated the indicator and took it's advice and went to bed.

Hopefully, my lack of sleep doesn't hinder my little "test" results tomorrow.
This photo is taken with my web cam while we were talking. So you can see we feel we are all in the same room together.  It's a total blast!

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A few people have emailed after reading some of this blog saying things like, "sorry, you're having issues"  Etc Etc.
I just want to be sure that who ever reads this blog understands a couple things.
#1. My eyes are great!  This has been a miracle for me.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I wouldn't have my constant companion - double vision.  I am so happy with the outcome of this surgery
#2. the purpose of this blog is really for me to leave my thoughts here and not carry them around with me.
#3. Yes, I have been dealing with some odd feelings that truthfully are a little post traumatic stress in regards to my previous surgeries.  I think it's ptsd because it was Post - in the past - it was a bit traumatic and stressful.Disorder because I don't understand why I feel this way.   I know with time it will lessen and finally  I won't have emotion when this subject comes up.

Bottom line.  I am ecstatic with the outcome, and I fell blessed that I had this amazing surgery and it was such a huge success. This is in my top 3 best things that have ever happened to me.  So don't say sorry to me.  Say Congrats!