So crappers of things are supposed to happen in "3's" right? Well, they never really said how big of a crapper it had to be.
I did NOT sleep well last night. My back was killing me. I was having esophageal spasms, and remember those weeds that I promised would cause my allergies to go haywire? They did! I was up using my Biofreeze and my nebulizer half the night. To make matters even more fun though, the nebulizer decided to breathe its last breath so to speak. It got really really hot to the point where it would've been unsafe for me to use it anymore. This is not a good thing when you have severe asthma and rely on the machine for your meds. So, I called the clinic first thing this morning and told them that I really needed them to push an order through sooner than later for a new one. Then I had an appointment around noonish for my cataracts. Now, this isn't your normal cataract ~ it's one that has only been around for about a year and has grown to a point where I now need to have it removed. I asked the doctor if it is common for someone my age to have a cataract like this. He looked at me, shook his head, and said "no". He asked if I used steroids and I told him that with my asthma, I used to be on chronic nebulized steroids for several years until we found out that I was resistant to them. Since then, I've been on Medrol on a regular basis, which is a pill form of a steroid medication. He said that's more than likely what caused the cataract. He said that I'll still have to wear glasses after the surgery, but my vision will improve. I don't think it's going to improve as much as he says it will. First he said reading glasses with a bifocal. Then he said that he might be able to improve it to the point where I should be able to read my watch in the morning without putting my glasses on. I told him that I'm blind without my glasses. My vision has been between 20/30 and 20/40 for several years and the cataract didn't show up until last year. I just can't see it improving that much just by putting a new lens in place when my vision was so terrible before the cataract. I could be wrong.
Then this afternoon I got an overdraft from the bank. According to my records I still had almost $60 in the account! So I called the bank and not only was that there, but the COC put their bill through [which I never got the card for even though it gets taken out automatically] and that put me over another $65 so as of tomorrow I'm getting assessed a $20 overdraft fee! That kind of ticks me off because their bill is usually $54 + so I should've had enough in there to pay that one, despite the fact that the cell phone bill wasn't paid for yet, and I should still have close to $5 left in the account. But evidently they decided to assess yet another charge that's close to $10 per month on the account. About a year ago I was paying about $35 for my water bill. Now I'm paying about $65!! It's just me here and I do one load of laundry a week, one load of dishes a week, and I typically sponge bathe. Please enlighten me and tell me where the HELL I am spending just as much for my water as a family of 6 who does 10-20 loads of laundry a week [on average] takes 35 showers a week [on average] and runs the dishwasher 7 days a week [on average]?? Because really, I'd like to know. This is insane! And it's in addition to the mound of extra money that I'm paying every month for property taxes because of the road work that has taken over a year and still isn't finished. Maybe I should go on strike and refuse to pay anymore until the street is finished and I don't have to drive over a rickety board that they keep driving over and breaking, making it impossible for me to leave my house. So, does that count as two or three crappers?
Tomorrow morning I go in for an endoscopy. It's been a while since I've had one, so I'm due. Hopefully it will help with the esophageal spasms that I've been having. I used to have to have my esophagus dilated every once in a while because of difficulty swallowing and I haven't done that for a long time.
So now we have cataract surgery #1, an endoscopy, I'm having back surgery [for my foot ~ RSD] in between the two, and eventually cataract surgery #2. Let's hope this is it for 2011.
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