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"Your eye is pretty gooey and red!"
-- My Doctor
I love it that my doctor just tells me how it is. No 'I'm sorry, Ms. Feliciano, but your eye tissue seems to be having some sort of allergic reaction causing the surrounding tissue to swell and blood vessels to enlarge'. It's 'Your eye is pretty gooey and red'. Something I can understand, even though it's pretty obvious.
Here's a couple things I left with today.
- I'm switching to a new eye medication. No more gooey eye.
- I can go back to work on Monday. Yay! Not.
- I have to wear glasses for at least 2 months. Which is a problem, since my glasses are about 8 years old and harldy fit on my face because I've abused them so much. I need to get some new ones.
- I can travel again. Which means that all you fans out in San Francisco, LA and Denver get ready for the August leg of the Yano 2004 tour!
- He asked me how active I was. I said, 'Um, I'm not?' Can't do anything too strenuous or that would be high impact. OK. Which means continue living as I have for the last 5 years. :-P
- I found out that the 'eyelash in my eye' feeling I've had isn't due to the silicone buckle inside my eye...there's actually stitches on my eye that are healing, but should be absorbed by my body within the next couple days.
- My droppy eyelid should heal in the next several months. Yuck.
- The detachment is about 90% healed, which is a good sign.
All in all, a pretty good doctor's visit.
I guess one of the things I'm most grateful right now, other than 'Law and Order' being on the tele every waking moment, is that I caught it in time. On the same note, I've been beating myself over the fact that I was so irresponsible with my body that I didn't go to the eye doctor to get this checked. Every single person I talked to has scolded me for not going to the doctor, but believe me, no one is harder on me than me.
I talked to my best friend yesterday, and she gave me a long practiced speech about my responisbility to call people who I dare to call 'best friends' when such life changes or perils such as the slim possibility of losing my eyesight happens. Truthfully, I've had my phone ringer off. I had it on one day last week and there were so many calls it made my head spin. And I just never felt like talking to anyone. So slowly but surely, I've been returning calls. So don't worry, I'll try to get back to everyone!
Posted by Yano at July 28, 2004 02:56 PMi love doctor talk, too, because one time Tom got an allergic reaction to a spider bit (we suspect) and his elbow swelled up really big. when i took him to the doctor, she took one look at the elbow and said, "Jesus Christ!!!"
Posted by: chattykathy on July 28, 2004 03:55 PMGlad to hear you're healing well. Do get new glasses, something cool, hip, modern...cheap.
Posted by: Trisha on July 28, 2004 05:57 PMGlad to hear your eye is healing. Eye glass frames have changed so much in the last eight years. Have fun picking them out.
Posted by: Sue on July 28, 2004 06:10 PMI'm glad you are healing dear. And yeah, frames out there are much more fun then they were 8 years ago. ;) Take it easy on yourself, you will heal up and be just as wonderful as you have always been. :)
Posted by: Lara on July 29, 2004 09:16 AM
