I'm on steroids! :o

Continuing from the last post...

Two days ago, I Googled "red eye and sinus pain" and got this good site that listed the different things that could be wrong up there (in my eye/sinuses). Most of them were allergies, which I have none of as far as I know. So Dad was thinking that I might had gotten an allergic reaction during the room change; possibly from the paint. But the thing that puzzled him was that it was only happening on the left side. You would think if it's an allergic reaction it would be on both sides, right?

So, thinking it was an allergic reaction from something in my new room, I made the decision that it would be best to sleep in the living room for a night to see if it indeed was something in my new room. We also decided that if nothing changed by Monday (today), we should go see a doctor.

After two nights of sleeping in the living room, the only thing that had changed was a pain in my back and neck from sleeping on the couch. So Dad called the family doctor to see what he should do. That doctor referred us to the Wal-Mart Vision Center, who is our regular eye doctor.

The ride over there was horrible. I couldn't open either of my eyes because of the sunlight [(consensual photophobia) (It's interesting that it says I spelled 'photophobia' wrong, but homophobia is on the list of correct spellings :\)], and towards the end I started to get that empty feeling in my stomach which usually means I could throw up soon (motion sickness). By the time we got to Wal-Mart (~30 minutes away), my left eye was watering like crazy, my nose was running, and my stomach felt empty (it actually was cos I hadn't eaten anything since the night before).

The lady who was at the counter in the Vision Center took one look at me and said, "Jeez... That looks awful."

"Yeah, it feels awful too," I said. She seated us and gave Dad a bunch of forms to fill out. A couple minutes later another nurse lady walked past. She glanced at us with a smile on her face. Once she saw my eye the smile quickly left. "Jesus, what happened to your eye?" she asked.

"That's what we're here to find out."

Finally the doctor took me back to the examination room. She did a medical history (asking me tons of questions), and did a basic exam. By basic exam I mean she had me look and read the eye chart, and had me follow her little light thingy.

After all the basic stuff, she dropped two yellow dye droplets in my eye, then looked at my eyes in the microscope. After shining many different colored lights in my eyes, she said she thought I might have Iritis. However, she didn't want to give me anything because she hadn't dealt with it enough to be sure. She ended up referring us to another eye clinic half an hour away. Then she explained what they may do to me and what they may give me as a medication. Before we left she washed my eye out. Thank God she did too, because that seemed to do the trick. I could finally open my eyes in the sunlight again, and the pain at the top of my eye was hardly there anymore. Btw, we were confusing that pain for sinus pain. It really wasn't in the sinuses, but in the top of my eye.

I had Dad get me a double cheeseburger from McDonald's before we left to go to the clinic. I was afraid of getting that ominous empty feeling in my stomach again. I ate most of it even though I really didn't have an appetite.

So anyway, the doctor at the eye clinic did basically the same thing the previous doctor did. He said I do have Iritis. In short, it's an inflammation of the iris. He gave me some eye drops which have prednisolone acetate in it. In other words, I'm taking steroids in eye drop form. I have to drop one droplet in my eye every hour. At night, I'll have to set my alarm for the middle of the night to put another drop in (that'll be fun...).

I have a follow-up appointment scheduled for Wednesday to see how the drops are helping.

I just had my 7th drop today and we can already see a difference in eye color. It's not so red anymore, nor does it hurt or water much.


Well, this is getting a bit on the long side so I'll stop here for now. I'll update you all after my appointment Wednesday.


P.S. Yes, I have deleted my Twitter account. It became too tedious to update it everytime something worth tweeting about happened.

P.S.S. Wow! 39 people who voted on the poll are Harry Potter fans vs. 7 who aren't :O

"I give up"

So we are painting today. Dad's just painting the high places and the corners/edges right now. I'm too sloppy to paint around the woodwork lol.

Dad originally said he wasn't going to help me paint because it was my own project that I came up with. Which is why I asked Alex if he wanted to help. But, of course, he didn't answer me... as usual...

-_-

So I have a message saved in my phone right now to him. I'm not sure if I should send it or not...

Basically I tell him that if he didn't want to help, or couldn't, then all he had to do was say so when I asked. I just told him that a few weeks ago too. So I said, "How many times do I have to say that?" I mean really, how hard is that? So then I go on to say that "I give up trying to get you to hang out with me." That's it.

That really needs to be said. If I tell him that then I really won't ask him if he wants to do something anymore, or at least only for stuff that needs to be done for the church or something. Whereas if I just tell myself that then I'll just forget about it in a few days and start asking again.

In other words, if I send him that message then the ball will start to roll to end the friendship... if you can even call it that. That's what I want now so I can save myself headaches in the future, and maybe I'll finally get off the emotional roller-coaster he's put me on (and one I've willingly rode for months now).

So what do you think?

Poll

Some people have surprised me by saying they're Harry Potter fans. So I'm gonna put up a poll that asks if you are one too right over there ------------------------------------------------------------------------>


I am a HP fan. I like some of the movies vs the books and vice versa. With the longer books, it's easy for me to lose interest because of the length... But then again, I haven't read the longer books since they first came out (ie when my attention span was short lol), so I bet I could read them now.

BTW, I haven't read the last one yet. I probably won't get to it before the movie comes out in 2010...

Actually, if you didn't know, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is being made into two movies with one coming out in 2010 and the other shortly after in 2011. Personally, I think they should have done that with the last few movies cos they always end up cutting stuff out to fit a HUGE book into a 2 hour movie... with is dumb...


Anyway, so do you like Harry Potter?

Leave a comment after you vote... or before... whatever.


P.S. Mom and I are going to go see The Half-Blood Prince next weekend. Can't wait!

P.S. x2: I started re-reading The Sorcerer's Stone (or Philosopher's Stone for you Brits) yesterday. I'm on chapter 6 right now, having read 5 chapters today.

P.S. x3: Not going to be painting tomorrow.

P.S. x4: With all these P.S.s, I'm starting to sound like Torchy! :p

Painting

I think I mentioned this a few posts ago...

I'm going to be moving into my brother's old room. But first I have to paint the walls cos I refuse to sleep in an orange room.

ick!

(Orange is one of my fav colors btw lol)

Dad picked up some color cards at Wal-Mart today, but I can't decide :\

I think I'm just gonna go with the same color I have in my current room, light blue, since I already know what it looks like against my furniture. The only problem is Dad said he didn't see that color up there today...

-_-

Dad's not going to help me paint, so I just asked Alex a couple minutes ago if he wants to. No word back yet of course...

Well, I'm going to go upstairs and take apart my brother's old bed, and finish packing away his bobble heads and whatnot.


Btw, what the hell is going on around here?!?!?!??!

So many bloggers are just leaving! Our corner of the Blogosphere seems to be falling apart at the seams...

:(