I had many people picking up today, as Friday is my day off. I was trying to get out of here by about 2 today to go to Lil sis's pool and relax.
When I talked to the family that needed a meal taken in, they requested spaghetti, which I thought great I can put that together in a crockpot and take it over early. I lined up my clients all at 10 or a little after, so I could cook and get a few more things sewn and then drop off meal.
Well, I woke this morning with my right eye ulcerated again! I knew immediately what it was and went and looked closely and sure enough, blood vessels feeding a pocket of gunk under my right cornea. So painful. Can't stand light at all. So, the doorbell is ringing, and clients are lining up. I have my eye tearing and my nose running, and I am coughing because of all the crap going down my throat. I finally got a bag of frozen spinach out to put on my eye and I am greeting clients like this. Because you know you want to leave your $8,000 wedding dress with a seamstress who can't see out of one eye right?
In the meantime, I am trying to make a Sunday gravy and a cake and a tossed salad. Also was going to make homemade French bread. Have you tried to cook when one eye is streaming, and you are in pain and the doorbell will not quit ringing? I have no depth perception and almost had a tragic accident with a butcher knife will trying to slice strawberries.The kitchen was getting more and more out of control and I sent some bizarre txt to the Relief society president. I don't know I was doing it one eyed. I told her to get over to my house if she could, I was in a lurch.
She and her sister came over and helped me finish and did up the dishes. She took the meal over and stopped to buy French bread. What was I thinking with my superhero cape??????I really never ask for help, I just do. But this was just ahead of me.
Slugs calls and we laughed and had a good old chat (bitch session) and I heard all about not over doing and then Sissie called same lecture different ear. Then mother-in-law sent same message.
But If I had not woken with an ulcerated eye, I would have been fine. I will see the specialist tomorrow at 8 in the morning. He called in drops with an antibiotic, a steroid and a numbing agent which I will pick up this afternoon. I wanted to get another wedding dress done and two more bridesmaid dresses and few piles but alas I will have to wait until tomorrow and do them after I have my drops.
Sometimes life just throws you a curve ball. What is causing my eye to do this? Stress? Crying? Stress and crying? Anyway. I am not going to volunteer for anything involving cooking for a while. If I can't buy it at Albertson's it is not getting done.
I am going to lay down with a bag of frozen spinach on my eye.
Kim
You tell em! We are looking out for your best interests right now. Love ya!!
ReplyDeleteOkay I am better two doctor appointments.
DeleteOh man, what a mess. I bet that is miserable. Keep the cold on it and hopefully the doc gets it taken care of.
ReplyDeleteResponding well to drops.
DeleteYikes! Hilogene in Az
ReplyDeleteResponding well to meds.
DeleteSorry Kim but I did laugh at the bit .... trying to imagine leaving an $8,000 wedding dress in the hands of a woman with a bag of spinach on her eye!!! I'd think I'd come to the wrong address!! Sorry to laugh.
ReplyDeleteBreath deeply my friend, take it easy, put yourself first & listen to Sissie & Slugs & say NO more often.
I think 3 lectures in one day is enough ;-) I'm glad you called the doc and got meds right away. Rest and get well. Stress sucks and does all kinds of rotten things to us.
ReplyDeleteThis is directly leading to my RA
DeleteI am so sorry. I also am weak from
ReplyDeletelaughter about the 8 grand wedding dress with the one eyed spinach clad seamstress! OMG . You do have a way of saying things…. Lol.
Cindy in the South
I am sure I inspired confidence!
DeleteI think your eye is trying to tell you something 😉. You may be just a wee bit overextended! I had to laugh, though. I totally understood that somehow you thought you’d have time to make homemade French bread, too! I tend to overcommit at times myself. The thing that really caught my eye in your post was the fact that you were slicing strawberries with a BUTCHER knife. Never a good idea, whether you’re using one OR two eyes 😂. Please promise you’ll use a paring knife next time! Hope your next post is about the lovely afternoon you spent swimming and visiting. Take care of yourself for a while.
ReplyDeleteWell you know the old Adhd.....
DeleteWhy were you using a butcher knife on strawberries? How big were they? What is this eye problem.
ReplyDeleteYou were beginning to sound like a bit in Chaucer's Cook's Tale!
I suppose you have been yelled at enough today. I am truly amazed you called for help.
Yes, I laughed and gasped a bit.
I know, I know!
DeleteBeen there done that but it was both eyes matted shut due to infection. Blind leading the blind. Doing too much... but I would say I was talking to someone that is exactly like Hubby. I can do it all even when it makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteIt is a life long problem.
DeleteI've just shut down this week, twice, so I'm the last person to lecture. I heard a good quote this week though, and I'll try to remember it for the days I'm down in myself. "Don't should on yourself or others."
ReplyDeleteOh boy I so understand you.
DeleteI am not yelling, just agreeing with Sluggy and Sissie.
ReplyDeleteI know, I know...
DeleteKim, I had a boss once when I worked at Motorola. He would schedule staff meetings with his team and then five seconds before the time, would reschedule to some other time. Drove us freaking insane. Because when your boss wants a staff call, you move your calendar around to make it happen. So his one move caused the 20 of us to go into overdrive moving other conflicting things around so we could be on his next call. What is the point of this story you ask? He did this for a few years. And now I thank him…well, not really and not in real life. But I came to realize that anything (well almost anything) can be moved, rearranged or canceled and it is okay. So later in my career, I would move calls, meetings etc and not worry. And now in retirement and since my husbands passing, I just decide there is no timeline to get anything done. Why, I ask myself, does it matter if something gets done today or tomorrow….It truly doesn’t matter. You can do less and no one will notice or care. I understand you have a sewing business so once you take something in, there is a deadline, but the rest of life can be free form. If you view it that way. Food for thought my friend, hilogene in Az.
ReplyDeleteThat is a really good analogy. You really can reschedule anything. Except birth and death.
DeleteNo yelling, just hoping you get some relief for your eye!
ReplyDeleteI am on goods drops!
DeleteThe Mormon relief society can make their own damn meals. They have plenty of money.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it is about money I think it is about time and caring.
DeleteYou need your time and caring more than the mormon rewind society. A meal should be funded and not eat up time and money you need for YOU. this stuff makes me so mad
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