It's been a crazy 48 hrs

I started feeling pain in my right eye Tuesday night and by Wed had a migraine, all day Wed I spent in bed thinkin that this was an episode of this eye disease I was diagnosed with in Dec-08. I didn't sleep much Wed night and by Thursday at 7AM thought I'd pretty much loose my mind if I didn't get some kinda respite - thing of it is...if you have one eye involved..the other is soon to follow...or it sure feels like it....and if your eyes are running, like as may yer nose will too and yer sinuses get pissy on general principles....and then the whole punkin just throbs...oddly enough in time with your blood pressure....a prime example of "the ankle bone's connected to the leg bone" if ya ask me...and one's I'd have soon done without.

I called a friend Thurs morn at o dark thirty - and he didn't hang up on me (thank all the gods) he picked me up and took me to emergency where they froze my eye and had a good look...end result was calling an opthamological specialist to have a look...he said he couldn't really tell what was going on due to the level of infection in the eye...so he put antibiotics in it and patched it...and sent me home...I get to take the patch off tonight and start with antibiotic drops for the rest of the weekend...and go back and see him Mon morn for a real diagnosis

he says it could be just an infected scratch...but it could also be shingles...so we can't be too careful

I asked how a scratch could get so infected so quickly and he said cos yer eye is the perfect place for infection to percolate...(inspires confidence eh?) makes me wanna wear safety glasses to bed! he also said that the medicine I use for the eye disease only aggravated whatever the heck is goin on with the eye...

I slept most of the rest of the day and all last night and feel significantly better today as the sleep has removed the rest of my head from the equation...(no pun intended)

So....I'm voting for it being a scratch...

I'm going on holidays in 2 weeks and I can't work on the Pickle to get it roadworthy by then (and don't suppose my eyes would stand the pressure of riding just now)...so I'm going to a rally with my friends and I'll drive the pickmeup truck fulla supplies....maybe I can ride again in August....who knows?

this I do know...take very good care of yer peepers people...ya can't ride without em...can't even drive for that matter...

edit for update:
…tonight I am cautiously optimistic

I took the patch off and put the antibiotic drops in
I'm still one eye'd most of the time but it feels way way better than it did

right now my biggest problem is getting the glue offa my glasses from the tape they used to hold the patch to my face

don't miss the patch at all..LoL

I also don't feel quite as scared as I did yesterday!
YaY!