Busy, Crazy, Sick
The last quarter of the year is always such a whirlwind! If I had the power to pause the world, I would abuse it mostly in the last few months of the year. Yeah, so we have less than 2 weeks before Christmas... what? Didn't we just get through with Halloween?
It has been a 3 ring circus around here!
We discovered that we had a chunk of unspent funds left in our Medical Flexible Spending Account last week. It needs to be spent by the end of the year (which is approaching at lightning speed) or we lose it completely. So I did something crazy! I got lasik! I checked out a few places and within days had my decision made and my appointment scheduled. I had Intralase and CustomVue LASIK in case you are wondering. Let me tell you I had the most amazing doctor and I would NOT TRUST ANYONE else with something so precious as my vision. He did a great job took so much time to get everything perfect! But I'm not going lie to you, recovery was FREAKING SCARY! OMG! An hour after the procedure, I felt like someone had taken a cheese grater to my eyes! I had issues with losing suction with my left eye when creating the flap so it went through even more trauma than my right. My left eye felt as if it was cheese grater-ed and then poked with a fork. I really really was not prepared for that kind of pain (and I have a very high threshold). I went through a very scary emotional 3 hours... seriously wondering what I had done to myself. I'm not kidding, the torment drove me a little bit crazy. I really was wondering if I would go blind... trying to savor the last sights of my husband and kids. Mourning the loss of not seeing my children get married. Praying to God to save my vision! Yeah, a little over-dramatic I know. But I've never experienced eye pain before... the eyes are so closely connected to the brain so I was just trippin! My advice to anyone who does this- VICODIN. I had some leftover from after Lily was born and boy did that take the edge off! After the first 3 hours, the pain amazingly started to subside with drastic speed. By the end of the night it was more uncomfortable than painful. The next morning my eyes just felt sore. But still looked extremely scary. My surgery was last Thursday. Days later my eyes still look very scary. Especially my left. It's BEEFY red. But guess what? My vision went from 20/50 (left eye) and 20/40 (right eye) to 20/20 (left) and 20/15 (right). That is better than perfect! I'm still adjusting... since I've never had correction before it's going to take a little longer to completely adjust. It's a little frustrating... hard for me to read and hard for me to take pictures (2 of my most favorite things)... but hopefully in a few weeks, all will be good and I will look like my normal self again. Meanwhile I'll be wearing sunglasses everywhere (including indoors-while in public). Yeah, I'll be that annoying person wearing sunglasses INDOORS (never judging those people again!). The difference is amazing though. I've been missing out on so much detail all these years... textures, colors- they all pop out like never before. And DANG, my kids are WAY cuter than I thought. LOL.
So while I'm recovering from surgery, my children decide to get sick and my husband is out of town. Why does this always happen? The kids are darn sick. High fever and vomitting sick. Huge red sores in their throat sick. It's Enterovirus and it's not fun. So I'm wearing protective goggles like all day because I don't want any of their Ebola flying into my eyes and causing blindness! Seriously? Really? My eyes are SCARY RED, my kids are puky and cranky and my husband is across the continent AND CHRISTMAS IS IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!
As much as I hate for my kids to be sick- it is so sweet to hold their warm feverish bodies next to me. They are usually so wriggly and bouncy that I cherish times like these that they want to be held and cuddled. We have been quarantined since Thursday though and I'm getting a little stir crazy...but I love having an excuse to be in pajamas all day. I also love seeing the kids marvel at the Christmas tree! We put candy canes on the branches today and the kids were just delighted! It's more magic than ever- Christmas with kids. I did learn one thing today- chocolate pudding makes everything better. I think it's going on the sick kids menu from now on.
