Super lame eye problem...

Yeah, i get the sucky weird illnesses. Softball sized ovarian cyst? I'll take one. Hole in the retina? I'll take two! Yeah. Seriously, who gets holes in their retinas? I do, apparently.

I went to the eye doctor the other day to get my contacts prescription updated, which is fine. And then the optometrist is like, oh, let's dilate your eyes so i can check for problems. And of course, i'm like "Sure! Why not?" So she dilates the eyes and finds a hole in my freaking retina! Which means i'm risk for a detached retina which is Bad News.

So she sends me to a retinal specialist who dilates my eyes again (twice in one week, joy) and he checks and finds another one in the other eye. Which had healed itself. So i really only have a problem in one eye, but it's still Bad News. Now i have to have a procedure on my eye where they laser around the hole to seal it to the layer behind so it can't detach.

Oh, yeah, and the really Bad News? After the procedure, i can't lift anything, strain anything, or read or use my computer for 3 WEEKS! How in the world am i supposed to survive without books or email for 3 weeks? The answer... I can't. I just plain can't. I'll go stark raving nuts before my time is up.

And did i mention that this has to happen right in the middle of moving to Oregon? So i'm sticking my poor boyfriend not only with a broken girlfriend but also all the moving stuff. I at least managed to put off the procedure until after we will have packed and loaded everything, which means he'll have to unload it all by himself. Poor guy. He should find himself a non-broken girl.

The only upside that i can see is that I'll be living the dream. Yep, that's right, just call me Skye the Pirate. I get to wear an eyepatch! When I asked the nurse if i could color it black and put a skull and crossbones on it, she looked a little confused, but said it was okay.

Gar!