Monday

Today was a big day. We loaded up to the cornea specialist in Huntsville and looked forward to good news. Well, the good news is that after 9 days of this, its not any worse. What they know is severe cornea abrasion, severe dry eye with no known originating experience. What this means functionally is my cornea is scarred, very irritated, and opaque for now. The doctor reminded me that he predicted 16 to 18 week at a minimum for the eye to begin to regenerate the cornea and the trauma to reduce. Lovely.
Tally ho. What that means functionally is no focusing with or without glasses. You see out your eyes….but you see shapes, not focused thing…you see waavy where it isn’t waavy…and you simply don’t see most things. If you bring things 1-3 inches from your right eye, you can focus for about 1.5 inches or 2.5 sometimes. My iphone strangely enough is about perfect size for focus when i can focus…which is not for long…and not predictable. Sunday afternoon it lasted about 3 hours. Today, not so much.
We had an adventure never the less. The Tennessee Walking Celebration Horse Show is going on about an hour north of our home. We met a friend on the road complete with new cowboy hat and very very dark sunglasses to protect me and away we went. I cannot begin to tell you how silly a girl feels in sunglasses and cowboy hats with a skirt and shirt accompanying two men and a daughter through the arena, but then again, why not. It was a delightful day with our friend and Madison had a wonderful time seeing the arena, the barns and a sale barn. I spent my time enjoying the company, hearing stories, and trying to see what I couldn’t see well.
Home again tonight, realizing that I will be rediscovering how to live life as a very low vision person for a while….and perhaps if I behave well, by Christmas I will regain the ability to focus my eyes….and the cloudy covering over my corneas will regress. Turns out, the chores still need to be done, work still needs to be accomplished, and I have so much to be thankful for.

Outtakes?

Oh yes…..

having a husband pick out new makeup for you, only realizing later he chose 3 shades too light foundation….

Drinking what you think to be diet mt dew to discover it was countrytime lemonade…yuck!

choosing the salsa bottle from the fridge….the HOT one, not the mild one…

not being able to find a 2nd shoe…..on 4 different pairs of shoes….so much for my organization

learning to fork vegetables, my fork to target aim is p i t i f u l apparently

learning to cut foods the right size for my mouth, just keeping it all still so I can cut is an experience….

Its an adventure here, but one we’re getting through…..Les is really patient and we’re thankful its not something harder or more permanent.

hugs!
Sweetie