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The past few weeks I’ve been noticing that I have been having almost constant headaches. At first I thought I was under a lot of stress, then I thought my eye socket could be infected, and then I thoiugh my pressure (from the glaucoma remaining in my left eye) may be up. This obviously prompted me to got to the doctor, so I called up my eye doctor first.

I had an appointment this past Wednesday, good news is eveything is well with my eye socket and prosthesi. The bad news is my pressure is up. The doctor thinks that because the left eye has so much to do now, it may be straining on it. That didn’t make much sense to me at first, considering my right eye that was removed was blind but then iit hit me — I just started back up at schoool again.

My courses are through distance education, plus I’ve been blogging, freelance writing and of course, facebooking. Maybe it has nothing to do with the surgery at all but just the plain and simple fact that I shoiuld cut out some time that I spend online. If nothing else it is worth a try! I am going to try to spend no more than one hour online at once no magtter what the excuse may be. After all, I need to take good care of the one eye I do have left

Exactly one month from today my journey of recovery should be finished. I am due to have my prosthetic eye 100% complete by then and needless to say – I cant wait!

I have to tell you guys about last night. It was probably one of the most memorable nights of my life. My family members all got together and planned a benefit dance for me. I am unable to work, as you all know, I have a mortgage, a daughter, bills, etc and Matthew is only getting part time work. We were finding it hard to make ends meet.

Every week we are having to make a 5 hour trip (one way) to a hospital to be monitored, pay a babysitter while we were gone as well as try to save up money for the actual eye itself. The stress of our financial woes were taking a huge toll on us so last night a benefit dance and silent auction was held in aid of my medical expenses.

I don’t have an exact number amount of how much was raised but I can tell you that the auction brought in just under $2,000 and we were given about $7,000 between family, friends and local organizations that help out. I will say I am not one to take handouts however, i greatly appreciate what they have done for us.

I cannot believe how kind people can be. There may be some awful things going on in this world but there is also a ton of good. I cried all night, and all morning opening up and reading everyone well wishes to me. I am so relieved to know that we do have enough to cover the eye and other travel expenses and do not have to worry about running up our credit cards and taking loans.

A huge weight was lifted off of my shoulders last night & I thank everyone who helped out and in anyway whatsoever.

I had a checkup done on Wednesday, just before my three week post op date and everything is going well. The conformer had fallen out of my eye once, but I was able to put it back in myself correctly.

As of right now I do not have another checkup with my local eye doctor for a month, however, I will be making a trip back to the doctor who had preformed my surgery sometime soon.

I am currently suffering from a cold / sinus infection. I’ve noticed that snezing really hurts but I’ve been taking some allergy medication to help with that and so far so goof. Other than that there is not much new!

I had a checkup with my optometrist this morning, everything went well. My pressure was 12 & I was reading at 20/25 scale with my left eye. Obviously my right eye is blind so there is not much to be said on it’s behalf.

She wrote out a prescription for new reading glasses as my vision had changed so I went and ordered them, $375 and two pairs later I left. I can’t wait for them to come in I really like the style on them compared to the ones I have now. The clerk said they should be in within 14 days, I am hoping they are in before my surgery (i will be leaving 14 days from today).

My head has been running a mile a minute about my enucleation. I keep saying I am not worried or scared but then I find myself playing different scenarios over in my head of things that could go wrong. Sometimes I find it hard to just relax and put in out of my head for a while.

My major worry is that the wrong eye would be taken accidentally. Most people sort of laugh when I say this but it truly is a worry. My second worry is what kind of pain I will feel when I wake up & whether or not I will vomit. Every time I’ve been under anaesthesia i have had severe vomiting afterwards. I will be mentioning this in my pre-op visit though. As far as the pain I wonder if it will just hit me out of nowhere, will it gradually come, will it even bother me as much as I am thinking it will? The surgery itself is not really of any concern to me, I am confident in my doctor and that he will do an amazing job.

I am hoping to take some pictures or videos of myself before, during, and after the whole process. I think it would be helpful for anyone else who may have to experience this in the future.