January 4, 2026 Sunday

Greetings!  What a week.  It's getting so I almost hate to tell you about more bad luck with health issues.  My life has sometimes seemed like a bad dream!  Good grief!  I still can't see well out of that eye but it is on the mend.  Haven't been able to comment on blogs yet and for the better part of this past week I could barely see to read or type...but it is getting better now.

Monday.  Went to the eye specialist in the morning.  Eye was improving in some ways but was still quite red and watery.  The film over my vision had gone from white to light gray to more clear.  My vision had gone from basically zero to 20/200 (with struggle).  She was concerned I might possibly be getting an infection because it was still so swollen and irritated so she prescribed some antibiotic drops three times a day.  Continue with the steroid drops every two hours while awake.  Made a checkup appointment with another doctor for Friday.  Okay!  Things were looking up.

By that evening my eye was so swollen with a dark pink lid I could barely open it, the white was almost blood red, bad headache, and eye was watering constantly and dripping down my cheek.  The pain level had really increased to the point I absolutely couldn't sleep.  Somewhere around 3am--a bit dizzy from various head pains, wiping my cheek, no depth perception with only one eye, heading for the bathroom in the dark...misjudged, turned too soon, tripped on Allie's steps, did some kind of twisting fall against the end table as I felt my knees react weirdly.  Last time I fell I didn't ever cry.  This time I just sat there on the floor petting Allie (who had come to my rescue again--lol!) and cried for a couple minutes.  I felt so beaten down by pain all over, from being sick practically since I moved, and--most of all--for having to wake up Dagan and Leah in the middle of the night.

But...used my new smart watch.  (Always a silver lining!)  They helped me up.  My knees were quite painful but both working.  (Had various bruises from the end table later and swollen knees, but am okay.)  I am very lucky!

I have been a little bit wobbly and unsteady since all the head pain.  I had been so very careful outside with the snow and ice.  All the clinic visits and I had been so careful.  And then I fall at home wiping my eye in the dark.  Let's just say I have kept low light on all night and used a sleep mask since then--lol!  Glad I have adjustable dimming lights in the living room and the kitchen.  Not only for that but because my eye is super light sensitive, too.  I have the lights low and can't even open the blind very far...just enough to keep Allie happy--lol!  I did open it all the way temporarily in order to take a picture of how much snow we got after Dagan and the boys had shoveled out the window well.

Tuesday.  Eye film had gone white again.  Quit taking the antibiotic eyedrops, of course, but kept taking the steroid drops every two hours.  I called and left messages with the receptionist twice on Tuesday to tell them I had a really bad reaction to the antibiotic drops and quit taking them...and could I get a different antibiotic drop called in?  I certainly didn't want an infection, right?  No response back.

Wednesday--New Year's Eve.  Called again about the antibiotic drops.  Again they told me a nurse would call me back.  I missed a text telling me to send a picture of my eye...found almost an hour later.  Had to get Dagan to help me send a couple pictures.  Waited for a response.  Pharmacy was only open till 5pm and not open on New Year's Day.  I called back at 3pm.  No one there anymore...but she went to talk to the dr on call (who I had apparently sent the pictures to).  He said to just keep taking the steroids and see my dr at the scheduled appointment on Friday.  Eye film lightened up a bit.  Easier to keep eyes closed--less pain.  Slept off and on between eye drops.  Ten hours total.

Thursday--New Year's Day.  That morning eye film was light gray again--so was definitely improving!  I kept sleeping as much as I could.  Total of eleven hours.  Dagan's new electric car was finally delivered from Chicago.  Bad weather had delayed it for a while.

Kia EV6, 3 years old with 3,000 miles on it.  Now he can sell the Leaf.

By evening the film was getting clearer.

Friday.  Had the appointment at 2pm with the new-to-me eye doctor (Breen).  Woke up and the film over my eye was about back to where it had been when I had gone in Monday--kind of a clearer watery fog.  Swelling was down, sharp pain down, watering reduced, redness less...but still couldn't see well.

Got to ride in the new fancier electric car!  Really nice!  Dagan and the boys dropped me off and waited in the parking lot.  New lady was really nice.  I guess my eye was worse than I thought.  She had been filled in by Dr. Olbum.  Every hour and then every 2 hours with the steroids...well, the normal high dose is 4 times a day.  I will be on the steroid drops for a month.  I am still on every 2 hours while I am awake (and if I get up during the night to put a drop in, too, she said) until Tuesday.  On Tuesday I go down to 4 times a day for a week, then 3 times a day, etc.  She wants to see me on the 15th to see if I am progressing as they would like.  No infection!  Not viral or bacterial!  That was good news.  Just my poor cornea being inflamed.  I asked to her add that antibiotic drop to my list of "allergic to" meds.

Saturday.  Still sleeping as much as possible.  Seems to rest my eye and help it heal.  I have emails to answer, letters to write, and blogs to read.  Won't be commenting on blogs or writing letters for a while yet.  I occasionally write a bit in emails, but well...thank goodness for spell check!  Like right now...I am spending half my time writing this correcting my spelling--lol!  And I have been working on this for hours.  Once a week.  I can do this.  And things should get better over the next month here.

Meanwhile, Miss Allie loves her new world and her new-found independence!  She is up and down all day long.

This is still her favorite new spot way up high.

She was even playing with the white mouse on a spring up there one day!

Opening the blind yesterday I saw that one of both of the boys had been playing in the window well--lol!

I've had the blind closed a lot due to the light hurting my eye.  Only have opened it some when Allie is first up (so she can lick the condensation off the window and frame).  It's been closed so much that she's fine with me closing it while it's still light out.  She didn't even lift her head when I closed it today and she was sleeping in that bed next to the printer!  The blind has lost some of its magic, eh?

Blogger has decided I can't fix where my pictures or paragraphs are and has played with my font size.  I can't see well enough to do anything complicated to fix it.  The usual left, center, right thingie and the tyrying to change the font on the whole post aren't working.  Probably wouldn't let me fix it if I could see any better.  Has happened before.  Oh well.  Sorry.  I probably hit something I shouldn't have.  My depth perception is way off and I have been fixing things all day as I write this--lol!  Well, fixing what I caught and could fix.  Eye hurts too much now to do anything but sign off.

So, that's it for this past week.  I have one whole week to heal and rest.  Then it's back to the eye doctor and also the lab for bloodwork the next week.  Then CTscans again the following week and my oncologist the week after that  Yup!  It's that time again.  Cancer checkup time.  Of course, then there are more appointments already in February and March.  I'm just hoping for a quiet, healing week to come...and a really boring post next time--lol!  Till then...happy new year!  I hope you are all doing much better than I have been--lol!  *love and hugs*