July 22, 2013

Well, my eye is getting worse. We met up at my dad's this morning, loaded up the trailer with the generator and the bench pieces, and then headed out to the lake. We managed to get the benches installed and a railroad tie put in place by one o'clock or so, when we called it a day because it looked like a storm was coming in. A drop or two of rain fell but that was about it. So we probably could have gotten a little more done but we didn't have any stain and staining the rest of the dock is the last major thing that needs to be done on the dock.

When we got back into town we had lunch and sat around for awhile before I came home and made a doctor's appointment. I got in an hour or so later and stumped the doctor. He had it narrowed down to three things but I wasn't fully exhibiting the signs of any of them. There was an eye thing that he had trouble pronouncing but my eye wasn't painful to the touch. The was shingles, going along with the red bumpiness on my forehead but he said that didn't look quite right and it should have hurt as well, and my forehead doesn't hurt. The third thing was just a regular infection. With a remote possibility of poison ivy, although my eye puffed up originally before I got near any poison ivy. To be safe, because he said anything he was thinking about would only get worse if untreated, he prescribed three different medications. One of which cost over $80, after insurance covered over $90, and it was a generic medication. That better be the one that fixes me so I get my money's worth.

I started two of the medications tonight but he wanted me to start the Prednisone in the morning. And while I was at work my eye just seemed to get worse. It became more swollen and became more itchy and I feel a compulsion to close it and when I do that hard enough it hurts a little. Around 11:30PM it started to bother me enough and my eye started watering a little so I decided to go home so I could put an ice pack on my eye. Which I am doing intermittently now. It manages to relieve some of the discomfort but I can't tell if it is the cold or the ice pack or the pressure of me holding it against my eye. Either way, if I don't experience an amazing recovery by tomorrow morning I will probably call into work. Which is frustrating. And I am supposed to work at the school library on Wednesday. I don't want to miss that.

Now I'm going to call this good so I can put the ice pack back on my bed, maybe lay in bed for awhile and see if I can fall asleep. With my fingers crossed.