Monday, August 16, 2010

Pin cushion here...

To be honest the IV’s are all over but the testing of my glucose is not, and neither are the insulin shots since I still have the step down pills that I am taking, and my normal daily Copaxone injections forever, thus the pin cushion comment.
The fluctuation in my glucose numbers has been lower than they were to put it into perspective if you only understand the A1C test Saturdays was equivalent to 11 and Sunday’s was a 9, but now my numbers are, about an 8, still significant enough to require an additional insulin shot this afternoon, at a slightly lower dose though. Hopefully this does not mean I will have to contend with diabetes, which is in the family, and it will diminish after time passes like it did last time, but it took over six months!
I did speak with my neurologist this morning to keep her informed about the weekend and what occurred. We discussed whether or not I should continue with the step down pills and she suggested if the glucose goes too high I should discontinue the pills since the IV infusion alone should be enough and that the pills are not always necessary.
Then I asked for a time frame when I might being seeing, yes seeing some improvement in my vision in my right eye. Her answer was within two weeks and if not that would be it; the loss of sight in my right eye would probably or more than likely permanent.
Now is where I tell the world to not wait on this sort of thing, for it would be foolish and could spell disaster not unlike what I may have to live with from now on.

There is no known surgery to fix vision loss from optic neuritis, and even if I got another cataract in this right eye that I used to call my good eye that won’t fix it either or Lasik or any other!
Gosh I feel so stupid, and hopefully all this current worry will be a moot point in two weeks when I look back and see how silly I sounded when the vision has returned!
But to be honest I did wait a bit too long…Two to three weeks is usually the cut off and foolishly I waited about twice that!
A week should be the required time to allow for such things of this nature, and if still blurry go to the doctor!

The continuation of my acquiring a large number of FB friends has continued most of the day and the tally is up to 625!

I also heard from our Canadian, six months of the year neighbor from their summer home in Montreal.
They informed us that our neighbor who passed away this winter well his daughter who lives here in Florida is extremely ill and will be having quite a bit of her internal organs removed since a mass that was found inside of her, no mention of cancer thankfully, so hopefully benign but its called the Humpty Dumpty procedure where once all is removed from her pancreas, stomach, and gall bladder etc. will be taken out she will be put back together again! They passed on her note to us, I suppose thinking that we knew her but we have never ever actually met her, anyway her attitude about the whole ordeal sounded tremendously positive! What a gal, perhaps we will be fortunate enough to meet her when she feels up to it and is hopefully on the mend.

We currently have a gentle rain falling, and the thunder and lightening seems to have passed.
Oh, many are wondering how if my eyesight is so compromised I can write this Blog… let me explain, my left eye has the cataract lens and is working fairly well for close work, but the problem that I am finding is that my dear sweet righty, bad one now has trouble staying out of the way, and eventually causes a headache, neck ache and exhausts me since it doesn’t know what to do yet, but is trying to do what it can’t.
Got it?
In other words I can see close due to the left one but my inability to see clearly is compromised due to righty fighting for positioning and thinking that it is all right, but not! OUCH! The battle goes on, since when you are right handed supposedly you are right eyed?
On that weird analogy I will bid you all a very happy night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Which way will the war go?

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