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Each night, befort I drift into blissful oblivion, I write down three things that made me happy that day. Yes, another law passed in the parliament of my mind to set things in order for the new year. Today was a particularily good day. Okay, time to spread the jubilation . . .
1. Pictures of my newest friend born to one of my oldest and dearest friends. Feliz cumpleanos!
2. A letter, yes snail mail, from the Eclectic Media Artist enclosed in a hand-made card. Possibly the funniest card I've seen in ages, the thoughtfulness, and the delight in receiving proper mail.
3. Long e-mail from old lab mate in Oz with gorgeous pictures that reminded me of a special time in my life surrounded by beautiful people (and a few cows.)
Now, anyone who knows me knows I hate puss exuding eyeballs. What could be more gross?!?!?! For that matter, they don't even need to be puss exuding, a little redness will make me back away. The thought of touching an eyeball is equally horrendous. I nearly pummelled my friendly optometrist when he tried to put contacts in my eyes for the first time - I was 15 and he was taken aback by my lightening reflexes and Herculean strength.
To my supreme dismay, I have a festering eye infection. You can see what a challenge this poses. I can't exactly run away from my own eye. It just stares back at me, a huge, pulsating mass of redness.
I went to bed with perfect eyes on Friday night and woke-up on Saturday morning to find my right eye-socket sporting a large brown golfball instead of my usual orb. Hmmm. There were also two suspicious looking bug bite like things (I'm not kidding).
This could only be:
1. Chagas disease
2. Double spider bites
3. Revenge for a wrong in a past life
Explanation for Chagas disease as my top choice:
1. Minus the fact that I don't live in South America in a thatched roof house and that there are no Reduuvid bugs in Massachusetts, I think this is Chagas disease. Here is why. I went to sleep, perfectly happy as I mentioned. I woke up with two suspicious bug bites and massively swollen eyelids - Romanya's sign - an indisputable sign that I was bitten by a Reduuvid bug and have Chagas disease.
2. Who would be so unlucky to get double spider bites on their eyelid?
3. I couldn't have been that terrible in a previous life.
This morning, I noticed a large swelling in front of my right ear. Very painful too. Then jaw pain at lunch time and neck pain as I did the head-bob while fighting sleep during lecture. The eye infection rages on.
A new year a new set of resolutions. Four days in and so far so good. What are they you ask? That's only for me to know. Although one involves not procrasting, which I'm already failing miserably at (uh-hem, blog writing isn't homework last I checked.) Alas, I am human. I resolved to change that too. I'll keep you posted on my progress. Well, as long as I keep up with my resolution to stay better connected with my bezzies. Like, I said, I'm off to a smashing start so no need to worry.
PS I also resolved to find inner peace . . . world peace . . . peace of mind and . . . a piece of cake . . . mmm is anyone else hungry?
