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It started with a good plan. An exciting family vacation with a long drive south, resorts, swimming, beach, amusement parks, and FUN!

Unfortunately, real life got in the way (like it so often does) and we scaled back to a shorter drive, one resort, swimming, beach, and FUN!

Life got a little crankier. I awoke with my right eye irritated and itchy. So we scaled back once again. Movies, monument touristy stuff in DC, Smithsonian, and FUN!

My eye went from irritated to fully pissed off! Two trips to the Doctor in two days, and then one quick trip to the emergency room followed.

On the first trip the Doc figured that I just had some blocked pores. I was given instructions on how to clean my eye out and some erythromycin anti-biotic gel. The next day, my eye was almost completely swollen shut and the right half of my head was swollen. Second trip to the Doctor and they agreed that it was much worse and that I should head straight to the emergency room. I was possibly having a reaction to the gel, but could be something worse.

I went through a vision test and a crazy fluorescent test (to look for corneal abrasions) and it was determined that I did not have post-septal orbital cellulitis, which really had the Docs scared and I think explains why I got through the ER system so fast. I don’t know what it is, but I know that I don’t want it!

It was determined that I had an eye infection and possibly a reaction to the erythromycin so I was given a different oral anti-biotic and some medicated eye drops. That I have to use. Every. Three. Hours. ugh..

Don’t get me wrong, I’m very grateful that it wasn’t something worse (like the orbital thing) but getting up every 3 hours is hard. Especially with no newborn to goo and coo at. Hard enough while you are on “vacation” but even harder when returning to work.

Which is tomorrow. So, no vacation. All vacation time gone. And I didn’t even get to write anything (couldn’t concentrate or look at the screen long enough) or get any work around the house done.

With all of that said and gone through there was still FUN though. Got to hang out with the kids and my sweetie all week (though much of it was me stuck in bed). We got to go see Stardust (loved it) and The Simpsons Movie (hillarious). And we had some good meals and conversation.

This is why I love my family. Life gets in the way; bad things happen; we get hurt; we come together; we heal; but most of all we LAUGH. We laugh a lot.

Oops- my watch alarm just went off. I have to go put in some eyedrops and take a pill

If you click “Continue reading” below you can see some pictures of my eye day by day. Its not pretty, which is why I’m putting it “under the fold” so to speak. Clicking is not for the weak of stomach.

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Here is my eye on the first day. A little puffy, but really not that bad.

Day two. A bit more puffy. Really hurting and itching now.

And now we just get silly. I had a good three days or so with this level of nastiness. ugh.

Squinty McSquinterton:

Here is my Marilyn Manson moment