pro...crastinator

First of all, I'm becoming the procrastinator I never wanted to be but secretly feared I would. Damn... I guess I could blame my eyes, but that would probably be lame.

So the status> I'm in a good amount of pain. Seems looking at lots of adolescents daily takes a toll, so I'm taking the morning off tomorrow. That makes it 9 1/2 days total so far out of work for all of this eye stuff. I guess I'm cutting into all those pregancy leave days that I should be accumulating =) No, nothing brewing now, just looking ahead. Anyhoo, I think I'll try to take some half-days through April. It seems important. I know that doesn't sound convincing, but it is really a pain to write sub notes, and trust me, I've had to write my share lately. But I've left school the the last three days with pains on my eyeballs as well as a whole temple/cheek area range of headaches. Something tells me that's not so good for the rehab.

Abagail, lucky lovely Abagail gets to leave for Colorado tomorrow with her mom and Dustin. She informed me this morning that she is a little anxious for the plane ride =) I hope she has a lot of fun! Third grade and taking a real spring break... Much better than my week of packing last week when my district was out of school.

So I do have some plans to wax poetic on issues that have been on my mind, but that will come later. I figure it's pretty boring to just talk about the day-- I've just got to take the time. You could read Todd's blog in the meantime. He seems to find more time than me to muddle through some interesting thoughts...

On deck-- why it really bothers me that immigrants have to take menial jobs to support their families when they may have a much larger range of expertise. Then why it bothers me that I may just be making assumptions or feeling bad for people who don't want to be felt bad about. ANd why it really bothers me that returned troops are expected to fit right back into society when they have experienced a part of life that we have no grasp of.

leader

i swear, martin sheen IS my president.
i've never really accepted the fact that gwb was ELECTED anyways.

yesterday abbey and i both had the stomach flu. not so pleasant.
and even worse, it was her 9th birthday. i felt so bad for her.
we were a one-two knockout. =(

eye appt. tomorrow to see how it is healing. i've been out of work since
last wednesday. and i'm withering, between not having an appetite with
the eye pain and nothing staying down with the flu. not the way i wanted
to get off of my plateau really. i prefer fruits to vomiting =)
yum.

and stephen, poor lad. he does way too much for me. and right now he's enjoying
some ice cream that i don't even have a apetite for. there is something wrong
when i am not hungry for icecream, for i could surely subsist on it
in an alternate world..........................................................................

that's about all i can squeeze out of my dehydrated, vision-challenged head today.
i'll work on something smarter next time =)

hurting in mn

there is a small piece of plastic in my eye that will remain for life. it even has a serial number.

the surgery: scleral buckle

time: wednesday, later than scheduled, around 2:00pm

the eye: left

the doctor and nurses: awesome

the anesthetics: i could hear everything (i think), see nothing, feel almost nothing

my retina: completely sucks. had more holes than he thought. and apparently i had thick fluid in there... really thick =)

the iv: hurt... lidocane x 2

my eye: hurts like hell, red, hard to open, bruised, feels like i have lots of eyelashes in there, or worse

the husband: how did i get so lucky? he totally loves me to think i'm sexy with eye gauze taped to my eye. he even tapes it for me =)

ibuprofen: doesn't go well with my stomach. found out the hard way.

body heat: 94 degrees for most of yesterday... brrrr

vicodan
prednisone
atropine

best line: we don't usually see people under 70 back here!

the school newspaper: done and into the printing office at the do... what a hard worker i am (well, it should have been done in december or january.)

back to work: not sure yet...

Really, it's in the retina...

Has it really been a week? I'm already becoming a slug at doing this. Not that it hasn't been busy around here. On Wednesday, I had two interesting pieces of news.

1. My retina seems to be detached. I have THINNING retinas (like thinning hairlines?) and the one in my left eye apparently just got too thin and formed a hole. I guess I didn't do anything too out of the ordinary; it's NORMAL for the lucky people who are nearsighted.

So...

the optomitrist forbade me to go to work on Thursday and made an appointment on the spot with the retina specialist for Thursday am. The gist of it is that I will be in surgery this Wednesday to REATTACH my retina. I know... it sounds quite fun. No pirate jokes, please =) Stephen is already coming up with them. I'll be out of school for a little while, which meant that I've have to bust it to get everything graded before I have one good eye (during the recovery) because grades are due the week after next.

2. That night, we found out that the people selling the house we want ACCEPTED our offer! So we will be moving back to the other side of Lake Nokomis to Chicago Avenue! FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY, we are moving into our very own house. After we sign the insane paperwork that is. And thoughts of paint and fix-ups and trips to Home Depot and Ikea and Target have been taking up a good portion of our time!

So I do intend to update more often... just a few things going on. And now I have to plan what I'm teaching tomorrow, so that's all for now... HAve a good week everyone. (I'll have to work on my endings!)