And I was doing so
well.
well.
It's been what, six
weeks?, since I started taking the 6MP immune suppressant ex-chemo-drug, and
it's been going pretty well. As ever, still taking it pretty easy (um.. well,
except for a weekend of dashing madly around London trying to see everything)...
so no lacrosse or sailing. In fact, one choir rehearsal a week is proving a
sufficient challenge right at the moment. But I've been putting on
weight! I haven't done that since I was...um... I dunno, fifteen?
Maybe? And in the last month I've put on about 7 kilos, which is unheard of.
Admittedly, I've been pretty tired, and felt slightly queasy, which may or may
not be normal - but it's still better than the alternative. So I've been pretty
happy.
weeks?, since I started taking the 6MP immune suppressant ex-chemo-drug, and
it's been going pretty well. As ever, still taking it pretty easy (um.. well,
except for a weekend of dashing madly around London trying to see everything)...
so no lacrosse or sailing. In fact, one choir rehearsal a week is proving a
sufficient challenge right at the moment. But I've been putting on
weight! I haven't done that since I was...um... I dunno, fifteen?
Maybe? And in the last month I've put on about 7 kilos, which is unheard of.
Admittedly, I've been pretty tired, and felt slightly queasy, which may or may
not be normal - but it's still better than the alternative. So I've been pretty
happy.
Until last Saturday,
that is. Last Saturday my left eye started to feel slightly sore, as if I'd been
wearing a contact lens for too long. Over the weekend it got gradually worse,
until yesterday I could stand it no more, and took myself off to the eye
hospital, where it turns out I have Iritis. Yup, it's not a made-up word ("I
have eye-itis?!"), it's a real illness. Personally, I always thought the iris
was the name for the hole in your eye, and I was wondering how that could be
inflamed - but that's just me showing my ignorance. Apparently iritis is often
linked to ulcerative colitis - your eye gets very red and irritated (just like
leaving a contact lense in for a couple of days too many), and bright lights
hurt.
that is. Last Saturday my left eye started to feel slightly sore, as if I'd been
wearing a contact lens for too long. Over the weekend it got gradually worse,
until yesterday I could stand it no more, and took myself off to the eye
hospital, where it turns out I have Iritis. Yup, it's not a made-up word ("I
have eye-itis?!"), it's a real illness. Personally, I always thought the iris
was the name for the hole in your eye, and I was wondering how that could be
inflamed - but that's just me showing my ignorance. Apparently iritis is often
linked to ulcerative colitis - your eye gets very red and irritated (just like
leaving a contact lense in for a couple of days too many), and bright lights
hurt.
So anyway, now I
have two sets of eye drops and an ointment to stick in as well (not as bad as
I'd thought), and my pupils are two different sizes. And it sounds like I'll be
that way for a couple of weeks. Really not sure if I should be driving (probably
not).
have two sets of eye drops and an ointment to stick in as well (not as bad as
I'd thought), and my pupils are two different sizes. And it sounds like I'll be
that way for a couple of weeks. Really not sure if I should be driving (probably
not).
Having eye problems
does make you wonder about what would happen if you lost an eye, or worse. I did
get quite despondent; engineering and design are pretty visual careers, and right now I'm
having difficulty focusing on anything closer than about a foot away which makes
detail work doubly hard. But then, Gordon Banks managed to still be a
professional goalkeeper with only one eye, and if you can do that then pretty
much anything is possible, right?
does make you wonder about what would happen if you lost an eye, or worse. I did
get quite despondent; engineering and design are pretty visual careers, and right now I'm
having difficulty focusing on anything closer than about a foot away which makes
detail work doubly hard. But then, Gordon Banks managed to still be a
professional goalkeeper with only one eye, and if you can do that then pretty
much anything is possible, right?
