Blah May 26, 2004 ~ 5:26 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackbackThat’s how I’m feeling today. Mostly because it’s just blah outside. 60 degrees, grey, and drizzly. The kind of day where you just want to stay inside. I’m trying to decide: Do I go to Lowe’s when I leave work tonight (which could be any time now, it’s 5:30) to pick up the stuff I need, or wait till this weekend, or what? It’s four stops past my house on the subway, and I don’t know if I want to schlepp. Plus, I went to Best Buy this morning to get a Compact Flash card reader, and they overcharged me for it. The sign said $9.99, and they rang it out at $19.99, the cost of the high-end one. I of course didn’t discover this till I was on the subway. Now I have to go all the way back into Manhattan to point this out to them. $10 is $10. I don’t want to go all the way back tonight, but I also want to use the damned thing, so I guess I have to. Because they won’t refund me on something I opened. So I guess I’ll go into Manhattan and hit Lowe’s on the way back. Pleh. Not my idea of a fun time.
Oh, yeah. And I saw my eye doctor this morning. I’ve been having problems with Recurrent Corneal Erosion for about a year now. What this means is that I injured my eye back in college (completely stupid, I was collating papers and nailed myself in the eye with a corner of one), and it didn’t exactly heal right, so now the layers of cells don’t line up. Occasionally while I’m sleeping, the layers adhere to the inside of my eyelid, and when I open the eye, they yank off. It’s every bit as fun as it sounds. (And WebMD.com explains it much better than I have.) So I’ve been going to the eye doc every couple of months, putting goo in my eye before bed, putting moisturizing drops in, all sorts of stuff.
Today the doc tells me “Well, maybe we should do a Puntal Occlusion” in which he inserts a little silicone plug into the tear drain in my eye. The drain being thus blocked, moisture doesn’t evaporate from the eye as quickly. He thinks this will help, and he can do it in office. So I have two months until my next appointment to decide if I want to do it. At this point, I’m thinking why not. I’m tired of sticking drops in my eye, I’m tired of sticking goo in my eye, and I really don’t want to be doing this the rest of my life. But I’ll think it over some more, do a little research, and see what I come up with.
Now I guess I’m running my evening errands. Double blah. See you all later.
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