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I had my optometrist appointment today. My eyes are still dilated and I am sitting in my living room wearing my sunglasses while my eyes calm down. I had a new optometrist today. Dr. Harris. He said that I have been with Henry Ford for a long time because I have and with Henry Ford vision center for a long time as well!

He looked at all the data that Amani (The Intake technician) collected before my appointment and he looked at all of the numbers and said that my vision is, “Poor.” Then he assessed my eyes. He told me that my retinas and my corneas look great but the optic neuritis has taken it’s toll! He asked when I was seeing Dr. Scarf again and I told him that I will see him in October.

He kept my prescription the same because he said that if he makes it any stronger That it might mess with my nearsighted vision. I guess it has started to happen that that horrible Doctor who told me I had MS told me I would go blind and it’s looking like it’s getting there but Dr. Harris told me these are NOT the worst ties he has seen! So there’s always that?! But when he was testing my vision, I was looking at the big E. That’s all I could see!

I got paid today, rented a van, and got my haircut and my eyebrows waxed. We are keeping the van for tomorrow for an optometrist appointment. Mixup with the wound care nurse coming today so instead, my Mom is washing my feet and it feels like holy Thursday again.

I have been amused all day at the fact that Becky, the wound care nurse so I was 16.

Even though we were both wearing masks, I saw the indentation of her draw drop when she found out that I am 40.

I thought about it today and it doesn’t matter if I look like I am 16 when I am really 40 because I feel like I am 95!!!

But, thinking about the excruciating pain I am in with my feet, and I’m not even wearing pants these days, it’s more like I am 120

Well, today is the day. I thought I had turned a corner a while ago but the pain persists but it’s not like the pain has stopped because it’s still pretty painful but today, The dead skin fell off.

Even though it has been painful to look at all of the pictures my Mom has sent to me, I had to stare at those skin pictures for a long time!!! It looks so disgusting with all that skin that needed to come off but they told us at the dermatologist office, as well as at the ER, NOT to pick!

Oh, I am a picker! I learned from the best! All of my older brothers are pickers and my Dad was too! That’s where we got it from! The sores have been so painful that I can’t even think about picking them! They still are painful but they look a whole lot better without all the peeling skin around it.

My Mom said they would eventually be just pink circles but I didn’t believe her, I couldn’t see it. I told her that today and she said in response, “I could!” It is going to take a lot longer to be totally done but I’m kind of encouraged by this progress but I couldn’t see it before.

My Mom took Leia to the vet today because if you recall, she was a ’sickie’ just like me. But, unlike me, she is all better! My Mom sent me this picture as she was waiting for the vet:

I laughed because she always lays on the floor at home! I take it that she does not like the cooling mat I got her. I think I will look for a different one.

When her vet got into the room, she let Leia lick her face! I think that’s gross! She talked with my Mom about the fact that Leia does not have a good allergy medicine yet. She took Leia off of her eyedrops and eardrops but kept her on the prednisone because she is gradually stepping down off of it right now.

As she checked Leah out, she said that ”She is such a sweet girl! ” I am really happy that she is feeling better! I just wish that I was also feeling better by now as well!

My feet hurt so badly! My Mom called the wound clinic to see if they can send a nurse out sooner than our appointment next month. This is killing me!!!

Okay, this song did NOT randomly pop up in my head but I have my Gavin DeGraw playlist on as my Mom is laying down and I am closing my eyes because we are both EXHAUSTED!!! I heard this song come on and I can see myself sitting at the dining room table in my first apartment! It’s such a jam and it’s spring time and I’m staring out of the doorwall at the greenery…:

I was living at our first apartment the very first time I took garbage out in my life! I was 23 years old and people who came over just took it out to the end of the parking lot when they left. I had a bag there for a while so I took it myself! But then Sean got older and we moved to a different apartment where it was just on the other side of our carport and he could do it. So I didn’t have to do it anymore!:

Sean stopped by today after he got out of work and he put the second air conditioner in his bedroom because it is crazy hot!!! He sat and talked with us after the air conditioner was in and he told me, “I heard a ‘mom song’ today and 98.7. He told me that it was this song we heard all of the time in the car. He told me that 98.7 plays a lot of ‘mom music.’

I have never owned this song on a CD but we DID hear it a lot on the radio when we drove somewhere:

I just received a message from the woman who cuts my hair and waxes my eyebrows. There was a change of plan. She understandably had to cancel. I get a second to breathe now. I can relax a little bit until my eye doctor appointment tomorrow.

The scab on my left foot came off yesterday when my Mom took my socks off to wash my feet. My leg hurt all day and when I found out the reason why, I was reminded of reading the third The Hunger Games book. I remember at the very end of the book, it was described that Katniss’s wounds were tended to and it hurt Because the new skin was so tender. I remember cringing when I read that because EVERYONE can remember how that feels! That’s how my left heel feels right now. My Mom told me this morning that it looks like the right scab may peel off tonight!

What am I, eight years old?!

My Mom just left to pick up the van I rented to get my haircut today. Isn’t it crazy that I would pick a day that so extremely warm to do this but I guess ‘it hurts to be beautiful’ as my Mom would say when I was a kid?! When she comes back, it’s go time and I’m a little bit nervous.

Doubleheader this month because I have an eye appointment tomorrow. Wish me luck! And I have a neurology appointment On the 27th of this month.