Monday, November 17, 2008

Eye-ballin'

I guess winter is here. *humbug*

Next week is Thanksgiving, which means two awesome things!! 1) I get to see my family! and 2) Only a few more weeks left in this semester! WOOO!

Friday I got to see Mike's best man and best friend, Nick, and his girlfriend Colleen (who is one of my lovely bridesmaids! :D). Colleen is about to begin her third year of pharm school in January, and Nick just purchased their first house in Grand Rapids! Mike and I got to tour it and hang out with them for a while, and then we went to go see the new James Bond movie! I'm not an enormous James Bond fan, but it was great times to hang out with them again. :) Afterwards we had dinner at a Japanese restaurant where they grilled the food up right at our table!! The chef was awesome and it was quite entertaining. I had never been to one of those before. :)

Saturday I had an eye appointment, and apparently there are all kinds of things wrong with me! My eyes have been very dry and red lately, but I was mostly blaming it on my contact lenses. After careful examination by the doctor, however, it was discovered that I have:
  • Chronic dry eye
  • Insufficient tear production (and hence the dry eye)
  • Protein buildup (which makes my contact lenses dirty)
Because of these things, I now have to use artificial tears every day, and soak my contacts in this cage-contraption in hydrogen peroxide for six hours every night. Yikes! I've been doing this for two days now and already my eyes feel better though, so I'm glad I'm finally doing something to help fix them. They've been a cause of worry over the last several months, and I'm just happy that I don't have some crazy infection that will make me go blind.

Mike moves to Ionia this weekend. *EEEE* :D

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh no!  I finally saw the movie Synecdoche, NY, and the main character's body begins to totally shut down and his ability to make tears was one of the first things to go!  He had to use fake tear stuff too!

Watch out!  And don't make any plays about you making a play!

Boomer said...

Oh noes! :-O

*worries*

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