Update

 

Last Saturday I woke up and in the afternoon went on a walk with Mrs B. I looked down the street and saw two stopsigns. I was seeing double. Got an eyepatch as the double vision was causing me some serious nausea. Sunday I was still dealing with double vision, so called the Eye Specialist. He listened to all my symptoms and recommended I go to the Emergency Room the next morning to get checked out.

Mrs B dropped me off at the ER at 5am Monday morning. I had all the the tests by 11am and then just sat in the ER waiting for the neurologist to go over my results. They moved me into the hospital proper at 8pm and I was in a room overnight for observation. Tuesday morning the head nurse and the Neurologist went over my results. Everything was fine. I hadn't had a mini-stroke, no clots or anything. Basically, my optic nerve in my left eye had "frozen' (it's common for type 1 diabetics). They scheduled a follow up with my Primary for Thursday and Mrs B picked me up around noon time. Wednesday was spent at home recovering and dealing with setting up more appointments.

Because of wearing an eye patch, I can't drive. I have almost no depth perception. So Thursday I walked to my primary drs' appointment. It was sidewalk the whole way, so it wasn't an issue, thankfully. She just confirmed that nothing had changed (or gotten worse) and wrote a dr's note excusing me from work until I saw the Eye Specialist. I am seeing him next Friday, July 11th.

During all of this time, our car is due for inspection. And the sensor to check everything out wouldn't work for the one garage, so they wouldn't even start the inspection. It would cost $400 to replace that sensor. I have to try to find another garage that will do the inspection BEFORE doing all the computer stuff. I'm not very hopeful though. Which means we're going to have get another car by the end of the month.

I am looking at some big medical bills, no money coming in as I can't work and then one of our cars won't pass inspection. Plus there's a bunch of other life stuff which just adds to the load. I am just incredibly stressed out, hence my lack of visiting you all. I am back to responding to the comments on my blog, that's a big step up from even a few days ago.

This exact same thing happened to me about 15 years ago and it took 4-6 weeks to recover. I am NOT looking forward to telling my boss I can't work for over a month. Even with a doctors note, it's just not going to be easy. Because it didn't happen at work, I'm not eligible for short term disability either. So I will probably continue to not visit you for a bit longer. I'll just be sticking around here.