Yo, Adrienne
Alright, so yesterday I thought that things had calmed down after the baby's morning rage…and they were, but not for long.
When I got up yesterday my mom said that my eyes looked kind of red but I insisted that I was just tired. After morningbabyrage, the day became pretty normal. The baby went down for his nap around 2. I sat down in the living room and started reading. My right eye was feeling a little weird but not hurting or itching or anything. I went upstairs to put in my contacts because my glasses were really starting to bother me. I looked in the bathroom mirror and my right eye was this very alarming shade of pink. I decide against putting in my contacts for the time being. About an hour later, the eye became very watery and…sticky. In a matter of minutes, it was swollen shut. I went back to the bathroom to inspect it, pulled open the lid and found what looked like a sack of gunk sitting in my eye. I tried poking at it but to no avail. Nothing quite like this had ever happened to me so my mind started racing. Then I got really angry when I realized that I didn't have any insurance and by that point I was sure that I was going to need my eye to be amputated. I decided to call my doctor anyway who tells me that it sounds like an acute allergic reaction. To what, I don't know, because I don't have any known allergies.
During this time, the baby has woken up from his nap and thankfully the boyfriend was here to take care of him while I stumbled around with one eye screaming “eye SARS! I have eye SARS!” The baby, of course, takes this opportunity to take the Largest Shit Known to Man. Fatefully, I decided to handle this diaper change. Suffice it to say that I had a mess on my hands, the likes of which would turn the stomachs of the hardest individuals. Strangely enough, as the fumes from this mess hit my face, the sack of gunk in my eye burst open, providing me with some much needed relief. The swelling continued to go down thanks to some ice. My mom stopped by the pharmacy on her way home from work and picked up some eyedrops that the doctor had recommended.
But the fun doesn't stop there. Oh no. As my eye was clearing up, my neck started to relapse into that stiffness that I get all the time nowadays. So not only was my vision impaired more than usual, I couldn't turn my head.
Today my eye is still very pink and oozing stuff. My neck is still stiff. I'm thinking of buying some ergonomic pillows today since I really can't take this shit anymore.
But last night was good! As I mentioned before, the boyfriend's car finally bit the big one so we're in negotiations with my mom to buy her car. She sent us to the store with it to buy some groceries. While at the Waterfront G.E., we stopped at Barnes & Noble to pick up the Criterion edition of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas that we had ordered. We also got the Criterion edition of the Harder They Come and some Spanish books for the baby. He was so cute this morning. He's starting to really imitate people. So while I sat at the table, sipping coffee and reading the paper, he would take sips of juice and read one of his Spanish books, watching me the whole time to make sure he was doing it right. sigh.
I had said before that I was going to get a whole bunch of stuff done yesterday like call to make an appointment for my driving test and stuff like that. Obviously, I never got around to it. I'm going to try to do all that today, barring anymore bizarre events.
eeehhhhhhh I had more to say but I can't think of it. It'll come to me.
