February 7, 2022 - Monday




This was the Monday-est Monday ever. Seriously. Just a bad one. It really started last night around 11pm, when I took my contacts out and suddenly felt a very sharp pain in my eye. I struggled to sleep all night, because I was in so much pain. Around 2:30, Ollie woke up and wanted to come in our room. I went in and told her it wasn't time to get up yet, but she was wiiiidddee awake and stayed up until 3:45, coming into my room around 3:30...uninvited. 😑 I got her back down and slept badly the rest of the night. So, Ollie was cranky today and so was I! I made an appointment with my eye doctor to figure out why I am in such intense pain and, after checking it, she said that I ripped off some of my cornea when I took my contact out last night. It is fast healing and should feel a lot better by tomorrow, but because there are so many nerves in the eye, a small injury can be very painful. AND I'm not supposed to wear my contacts for a couple of days, even though the contacts actually make the injury feel better, because it's protected from my eye lid rubbing against it. I have a hard time seeing in my glasses and my eye is swollen and feeling bruised and the sharp pain is still sharp. It's a mess. 

I spent about an hour and a half talking to Alisha this morning, which was great. It made me feel a lot more excited and less anxious about next weekend. Hopefully it lasts! I did make an appointment with a provider at Doug's office, so hopefully (hopefully, hopefully, hopefully!!!) she's as good as him and doesn't give me a hard time about everything. Ben thinks it's not even worth it to meet with her, because she likely won't be anything like Doug at all and I won't get anything to help with my anxiety and I'll leave feeling discouraged, but I'm going to try! 

Here are some snow day pictures from the other day, since I didn't actually take any pictures today. 




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