Oi, long time no write… very long time no write! No, no writers block again, it was just a quite serious eye inflammation followed by a very sweet girlfriend that kept me away from the computer for some time!

First there was the eye inflammation that started early October… I woke up early on a Monday morning, turned on the light and felt a strong pain in my right eye… Strange… The bright light was painful… I ignored it as much as possible, got up, walked into the shower, looked in the mirror and oh my… my eye is very bloodshot! Still I wasn’t to concerned, had a bloodshot eye in Barcelona earlier in the year (without the pain though) so went to work and struggled all day with the painful eye… every time I looked into a light, or outside (early October we still had some quite clear days) there was this stabbing pain in my right eye.

I coped with it for 2 more days… but on Wednesday morning I had enough… I couldn’t handle the pain and annoyens any longer. Because besides the pain I started getting headaches and general pain on the right side of my head… especially on the end of the day it was quite bad. So called my General Practitioner and after explaining my problems I was able to get an appointment just a couple hours later.

Went to the G.P. and his conclusion was very secure… internal eye infection… OK… one hour later I was at the hospital to get the confirmation. My G.P. didn’t have a pupil widening medicine that was required to do a thorough investigation of my eye. The doctor in the hospital reached the conclusion quite quickly: anterior uveitis or iritis. In other words, an inflammation of the iris of the eye.

Definitely not a good thing to have, but having it just once shouldn’t be a problem. But if it returns, it could be much more serious. Normally this eye inflammation occurs with people who have rheumatoid arthritis… or a whole other line of funky diseases… So no reason yet to worry about that, I am just crossing my fingers this was a one time thing. Indeed, was. Yesterday I was officially told I was “cured”! :-)

But before hearing those magical words, there was almost 8 weeks of 2 different eye drops and one night time ointment. Doesn’t sound to bad like this, but unfortunately for me, one of the eye drops was a pupil widening medicine, to make sure the pain would not come back. No pain was nice, but because I had a constantly wide pupil, I couldn’t focus with my right eye… so seen from my right eye the world looked very blurry for 6 long weeks (last 2 weeks I could skip that eye drop). Not painful, but very annoying. Left work every day with a busting headache… the main reason for not putting on the computer after work. I was tired and just wanted to relax and let my headache drift away again…

Then, 2 weeks ago, I finally thought about writing on the blog again, on my birthday even!, but I wasn’t aware of the greatest birthday surprise I would get!

More about that tomorrow! ;-)

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