Long weekend?

I don't have time for a long weekend. I had plans that involved me coming in on Saturday at least. And plans for working Monday. Hmm maybe I'll come in anyway. At least no-one will interrupt me.

Oh...really..that was unexpected

Yesterday I went to see an ophthalmologist about an itchy eye that hadn't really gone away for a year. I was concerned that I had something in my eyelid scratching my eye. I can also see a strip across my eye when looking down a microscope. The doctor couldn't see anything and thought it best to refer me on to someone with better equipment. The expert told me I have an allergy response, that might not be to anything specific & I can take drops. He then had a look for the strip and didn't find it, so its probably floaters or something like that.

Oh, and by the way, while looking he also found the tear in my retina, a precursor to my retina detaching. so 1/2 an hour later I was sitting in front of a laser having laser eye surgery to fix it!

The phrase "dodged a bullet" was mentioned.

everyone is sick

It seems that I'm surrounded by the unwell...and not just the usual colds. Nooo; suspected pneumonia, fighting 3 separate influenza strains at once, whole families going down together. I feel threatened by it all - I can't afford to get sick right now.