Category: Corneal Ulcer
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OU Boy goes to Jail!
Okay, so it’s Twitter Jail. Or as he calls it Twitmo. He is addicted to Twitter. So when he woke up yesterday to discover he was in jail for 7 days, I couldn’t’ believe it. I mean I’ve been told to take a post down before, but never been in lockdown before. Donald Trump blocked…
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The Books Just Keep On Coming!
You never really reach the end of your TBR pile, do you? Just when I think I have a handle on it and don’t need a spreadsheet, Boom, more books. Oh well if I have to keep getting something I guess books are the way to go! I have read four books in two days…
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Life, Miracles and an Eye Update!
The saying above is so very true. Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. And we should be noticing them. Being mindful, being engaged with the moment you are in and not thinking ahead to what’s next. June 28 was a year since I woke up with a corneal ulcer and totally blind…
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Open Your Eyes!
The first words I heard when Jodi put my new glasses in place. And I have to admit I was a little anxious about it. Everything is bright and beautiful to me today! This past year of being blind, getting the transplant and now I only have 14 stitches left so my surgeon gave me…
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La vie est belle!
I don’t have a book review for today and since I’m all caught up, today I’m reading Don Winslow’s The Force. This past week has been a rough one. Just as we get out of one hospital, I go in another hospital. A couple of days before OU Boy had his issues, I got bit…
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As Lovely As You
As lovely as you! It has been an insane week. Some ups and some downs, but all in all, enlightening. Have you ever gotten to the point where you are praying the phone doesn’t ring with more sad news? That is what this week was like. A lot of calls and me yelling at the…
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Anxiety. The What If of Life.
Hope, Courage and Strength. All of these are running through my mind this morning! Yesterday afternoon the surgeon’s office called to let me know that I will be having my scar removal and corneal transplant on the 23rd of February. We went over all of the pre-op and post-op instructions and then I spoke with…
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When Anxiety Has You By The Throat
I’ve been away for a couple of days now. It’s been 7 months since I contracted an infection in my left eye from a contact lens. A brand new contact lens. At first it was a wild time just trying to save the eye and then it was healing it. I have written plenty about…