Absolute deluge. Sideways! Very unusual for Spokane. And something blew in—I got something stuck in my eye, and had to shower and scrub to get it out. Jane’s been complaining of eye pain. Can’t figure. But it’s a relief to have that gone.
Cold out there, too, despite the blue sky between the clouds. At least the greenhouse stayed earthbound.
I am really glad you were able to get the whatever it was that was stuck in your eye without having to go to an eye doctor! The Houston area had a storm like that on the 3rd, along with the cold weather. We call the type of storm we had “gully-washers.” Strange spring!
I’ll say – we drove back home to Nevada from Moscow today, and were rained on – and snowed on – almost the entire trip. One major three car accident between McCall and Cascade – held us up half and hour and looked like probable major injuries involved – slick roads. Fresh snow from White Bird to Cascade and just south of Riggins to Horseshoe Bend. After that, just rain.
One more trip coming up to the Palouse – DD2 graduates from UI next month. We are planning a week between Riggins and Coeur d’Alene and Moscow to round off our few years of flying visits. Neat region, lots to see, and VERY beautiful on 95 from Boise to Moscow, by the way, if anybody is up for a scenic drive kind of thing. Reminiscent of the 299 from Redding to Eureka – without the redwoods.
The wind was fitful but sometimes strong – good thing to stay out of, sometimes. You’d think it was early March instead of early April.
We seem to have hot and cold running weather, but precious little moisture in it. Cold snap last week and another one this week
Now that PANSTARRS has pretty much gone from view, of course the weather has finally cleared out some. We never got the threatened flash floods (at least not on our side of things), just messy chill and overcast. It’s the wet season, and we’re still light on the wet. Next home improvement project is replacing the window in the laundry room; when we went to the stacking washer and dryer, I had to remove the screen and top 4 louvers to accommodate the dryer vent, which lets in a number of critters. I’m tired of chasing out carpenter bees.
agricola, if you get near Spokane, let us know…
Right now, the eye has decided to do an incredibly painful bit. I’m toughing it out tonight with ice and Advil, and I’ll go to the doc tomorrow: no sense a 300.00 ER bill to get someone to tell me I have a problem. If I had to guess, I’d say massive lesion from something. Feels like it’s got a needle in it. I think I’ll be first in the morning at the eye docs.
Bless your heart! You may have gotten a scratch from a grit of some kind blowing in that’s triggered an inflammatory reaction. I can empathize. I woke up on a Sunday morning about a month ago looking like somebody had socked me in the eye. No trauma, nothing. (The kitties do scuffle for position on the bed from time to time, but if one of them had jumped on my head, I’da thunk it would have wakened me!) Was going to the doctor, but the next day it snowed a bunch, and I wasn’t about to get out on the roads — even if I could have. Was able to get out the next day and the Doc told me it was a uveitis, gave me atropine drops and steroid drops. I did the David Bowie number with one pupil way dilated for about a week and a half, but it cleared up. He said about 80% of same are of unknown cause. But you are absolutely right to go to straight to the eye doc at earliest opportunity. Someone should drive you as they’ll want to do a slit lamp exam and look at your retina, which means they’ll dilate your eye. Hoping for the best possible outcome for you.
FWIW, according to Feng Shui, eye problems mean you’ve got some kind of bad chi going on in the south central portion of your house. This direction is linked to the Li Kua trigram and the fire element. The Phoenix is the ruling body of this direction which symbolizes the middle daughter. This is the governing direction for fame and family prestige luck. The Li kua identifies problems related to the eye or ear. The shape, color and number associated to this direction is triangle, red and 9 respectively. Display paintings or statues of Horse here to enhance fame and recognition luck! Phoenix figurines and Lights make good energizers here. Thought you’d like to know.
Wow -good luck! Eyes are scary to injure and a small scratch can hurt like the dickens. Get well soon – us addicts need our future episodes.
I spent the night holding it shut with an ice pack. Today I’m going over to the clinic. My doc is at WalMart, nearly a walk-in, and after wide experimentation in Spokane, I can say they’re the best I can get—really good optometrists. There’s an opthamologist I could go to, but that takes forever waiting and I think this is far simpler.
I think that you probably have scratched your cornea getting that object out, and that they will give you something that looks like bacitracin and an eye patch. If this is so, you will feel much better, but it may take more than a week to heal completely. Having been there and done that, I think that it would be good to invest in an antique, (I don’t think that they make them any more) eye bath and keep a bottle of saline on hand. Can you tell I have children, just from this screed?
We’ve got an eye bath, includine one on a stem.
I did get to the doc this morning, and he says its small, but right where a contact lens goes, so he put a 0 lens on as a bandaid to hold the thing from rubbing and gave me some eyedrops: says it should be better by Wednesday.
I didn’t want to go to THAT WalMart pharmacy which screwed up 4 x on the last prescriptions; so I went to the one where we go to get Atkins products, a Supercenter. THey took the prescription, told me 20 minutes. I go off shopping, and come back—no joy. Seems the doc wrote the date of the prescription as 2-20-12.
Eh? How do you do that? Couldn’t cross it with my birthday: I wasn’t born yesterday. Couldn’t justify it as a number from my last visit. That was November.
I think Jane figured it: it’s tax time: the man’s doing his taxes and in mentally in last February. I was his first patient.
The pharmacy called his office. But the front office staff had changed. They didn’t know a thing. I said ask ‘Olga’ [the back office] and ‘Olga’ agreed I’d been there about an hour ago. So yes, they’d alter the prescription.
I finally walked out with it.
Mercury must be in retrograde.
Remember the story about a kid who got a tiny seed embedded in his cornea, and it sprouted?
(I haven’t blown a date all year!)
Goodness! Really sorry about the eye, and the total mix-up on the prescription. Hope it gets better SOON! Two days to heal is about right but a miserably long time when you hurt.
Owieowieowie! I hope your eye heals up pronto. Please give it every opportunity to heal right, and don’t push it. Might one suggest relaxing and listening to a selection of your favorite music and books on tape?