March 1, 2026 Sunday

Greetings!

Well, I thought that my eye watering less was a sign it was getting better.  But I guess I hadn't tried to cover my left eye and see through it.  Totally covered by a light grey film and can't see anything but blobby shapes.  Dr. Breen put me back on steroid drops four times a day for 10 days straight and come back to see her.  The Iritis is gone but the cornea is still inflamed.  They've done everything they could.   If there hasn't been noticeable improvement she will refer me to a corneal specialist.  

Been a week. Can't see any better at all in that eye.  The bad eye messes/overlaps with my good eye but some days less than usual for a while.  I occasionally have been able to write a couple comments.  That's improvement, I guess.  But I can't count on it.  Still takes me many hours to write a blog, but it is worth it.  You are worth it.  :)

I go back on Thursday.

Good news this week is Dagan had his surgery on Thursday and all went well.  They drove back on Friday.  He can't lift and has to take it easy for a good while, but he's doing well.  :) 

We are glad they decided to just replace the pacemaker again this time.  He really needs new leads.  That is why his pacemakers are not lasting that long (2 to 3 years).  Next time will probably be open heart surgery for the replacing of leads.  His heart has so much scar tissue from past surgeries...it's kind of an if it ain't broke type of situation, you know.  I think I told you he has been opened up so many times for pacemakers that he doesn't bleed anymore when they cut into him because of scar tissue there in his abdomen.  (He was only 12 when he got his first one and was too small to put it up into his chest like they usually do for adults--and just has remained there all these years and they don't plan to change that, either, unless they have to.)  So, he should be good to go for hopefully another 2-3 years if the leads hang in there.  :)  They do keep a close eye on him.

Allie is happy I can at least open the blind partway on a sunny day now most of the time.  Me, too.  Less water running down my cheek is a good thing.  :)

I stumbled across Wild Card with Rachel Martin from NPR over on YouTube.  LOVE the show!  She asks guests a series of deeper questions they choose from a series of cards.  They are questions that you really have to think about.  (Stuff I often think about--lol!)  The show was asked so often about selling a deck of cards people could buy that they finally made up a deck.  I had preordered it a while back and it just arrived this weekend!

I thought it might be fun to pick a random card to reply to.  Maybe every week?

I have!  Mostly as I was waking up when I was young...like a dream.  When I was in 6th grade I had this "dream" where I was frozen in place--standing--couldn't move my arms which were in front of my chest--blackness--couldn't see anything--but there was this super loud sound almost like the train going by Grandma and Grandpa's house when they lived in Cokato if you were standing too close to the tracks--and I was being hit by small rocks or pieces of something all over the front of my body but they didn't quite reach me for some reason even if I could feel them hit like maybe I had a big cardboard box over my head or something???  That voice I would hear in my head sometimes said very clearly--"remember this".  (I have always called him GA--my guardian angel.)

Ninth grade.  I was at the junior high science fair with my two guinea pigs.  Long story short--tornado--grabbed up my two guinea pigs to my chest--watched all the people scramble to get out of the gymnasium--adults pushing kids aside--people screaming--decided I wasn't going to be a part of that--watched a section of the roof blow away and another--a small funnel started to form in the center of the room--the lights went out--a large piece of posterboard from someone's display suddenly plastered itself to the front of me and the deafening sound!  I stood there and thought to myself--this is the dream!!  Broken glass and who knows what else pelted the poster board that protected me.  My hands weren't tied.  They were holding my guinea pigs.  Stood still until the wind left and the poster board slid down to the floor. 

That was one.

Another bonus I will throw in.  When I was about ten I dreamt that Mr and Mrs Little One (brown male and albino female hamsters) had nine male albino babies.  Mrs Little One was pregnant and due any time, but I knew enough about genetics to know that would be nearly impossible.  I had no other hamsters.  Thought it was a very funny dream.  Mrs had nine babies the next day and they were all going to be white!  That was weird enough!  But after about a month you could tell they were all males!  Blew me away.  Still makes me chuckle.

Anyways, let me know if you have ever had a premonition that came true.  I'd love to hear!!  Do you think it would be fun to do one of these cards every week--or most weeks?  This is my big writing effort for the week and since I feel my communication is so one-sided right now, this idea came to me.  What do you think?  Have you ever watched the show?

Allie is happily basking in the sun this afternoon.

 Life is good.  Till next week.  :) :)