Cream of What...ever!

 Well, I woke up this morning expecting to be a little better, but instead I was weak and shakey and my vision was worse. Sigh.

Eye doctor corfirms the shingles are pretty much gone, but now have gneral eye infection. Steriod drops.

I managed to finish the load of laundry and to make the soup. I was thinking it would be cream of celery, but it also has onion and chicken. It is GOOD. Since I had to get the next prescription on the way home, I also got some yummy dark berries. I'm still off my feed. But they also taste good.

I feel better tonight, but still can't read. I'm getting awfully tired of listening to things. O well. Here's to tomorroe.

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Tropical Fauna

  Today went pretty well although I might have overdone it a little yesterday-- the headache tried to come back. I tried to be better today. I had hoped to do three things that didn't require big eye focus commitments in addition to all the screen time I could stand to answer emails and stuff. They were: clean out a small desk no one has done anything with in decades. A load of laundry. Make celery soup.

I managed the emails, I got the desk about half sorted and the laundry washed but not dried. I thawed the soup stock. There's always tomorrow. After I worked a little while I got shakey. Well, I just have to accept that. My eye did let me read a bit during the down times. I've listened to a lot of podcasts and things like that, but since audio is my weakest input channel, I'm getting really tired of it.

Anyway, sorting the desk included finding two clay birds that Omer's mother had brought us as gifts from Mexico. In the same place, I also found the conch shell that my grandmother had brought home from one of her trips.

Meanwhile, a couple of years ago, I had found a set of frog ashtrays that were my mother's. They have just been sitting out ever since, because I didn't want to lose track of them. I think they are humorous.

Now we have to switch and talk about what I did just under a year ago when I came home from my Jauary trip and found my bedroom a total mouse mess. I cleaned and redecorated. I still love it! You need the reminder that the curtains are a tropical print. You can see a link below with more pictures if you want. But the point is that I have that bright tropical fabric. I have four metal frog hooks on the walls (you can see two of them in this pic and a slice of the curtain.



So today I added the conch (Bottom shelf), and one bird and frog above that.

A couple of shelves up are the other bird and frog. Incidentally, the shelf is a walnut plate display rack my mother had custom made (to go with the walnut dining table and bureau). I've tried to sell it, but no takers, so I just put it in a narrow space beside the big window.

I still want to make the soup. I'm eating almost normally, but not up to sandwiches yet, so another batch of soup will be good. I got some from the store, but even the low-sodium ones are way too salty.

Thanks so much for all the encouragement!

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Help! She's Going to Eat Me!

  The doctor report was good this morning. They eye looks significantly better, but I have to continue with the drops and ointment for at least two more days.

I managed to stay upright for quite a few hours and did some brainless tasks (refuting my statement that I did bring my brain home?).

I was hungry for the first time in days and managed to eat a small salad for dinner.

I can't do much that requires visual acuity until I stop needing the ointment, but the doctor was very encouraged, and the swelling is almost gone. Please be patient if I owe you a better response than a "like" - or remind me in a couple of days that you are waiting for something from me if necessary. But I seriously can't do much reading/writing until then.

Off to take my meds and like down.

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Back, with Brain

 I'm almost me again. And here's the proof that I have a brain. (and also a metal dental plate)

However, I do have shingles, and they are in my one good eye. So that is the current concern. Monica has been the bestest ever. She took me to the ER yesterday and I was not very functional. She didn't have to carry me, but wow.

I now have many meds.

Went to eye docotr today and have more meds and another appointment for tomroow. But something managed to kick the severe pain.

Want to see my brain cloer?

AHa! I can tell you what's wrong with me. See that little bright spot in the middle? Someone is lying down on the job. This is what it's supposed to look like.

Seriously, it's like a miracle how much better I felt this morning. And I'm keeping small ampunts of food down. Thanks for the many prayers and everything. My phone has hardly stoppoed dinging or ringing all day so if you could manage to wait a few days before needing me for anything it would be great I have ointment I need to keep in my eye and I can hardly see through the goop.

Gut I'm back in the land of the living. There are probably bypos in this. Seriously, I can hardly see.

I'm headed ffor bed now but I was up most of the day today.

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Day 5

  I decided that 5 days of a headache was too long so I went to Urgent Care.

Well, for a fair chunk of money I got the equivalent of take two Tylenol and call me in the morning, except that there was a CT scan thrown in. The good news is that there is nothing really wrong.

Got Compazine and low-dose Benedryl intravenously, Tylenol. Came home and slept like a log for 6 hours.

The health-care people were OK. They were not condescending, so I wasn't enraged when I was done.

Bottom line... the headache is lessened, but not gone.

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