Petunia rambles on and on….

Our little A, who has been sick for days, is no longer just laying around like a dishrag.  He’s back to tackling his brother, throwing him to the floor and stealing his Lightening McQueen toy car, running off with his Froot Loops.  Sadly, this is a sign of great improvement in his health and that he is quickly returning to normal.  Poor N.

First, we got some snow last night.  Nothing like much of the country gets all the time, but this is Delaware, and anything more than 42 flakes in a day practically closes the damn state.  We had this much – which is a lot for here — 

It looks attractive if you photograph it while it’s still clean and untouched!  Apparently, birds don’t like to fly when it’s snowing.  Our neighbors have several feeders and usually a lot of birds, too.  Here they are, hovering, shivering.

If you have lots of time to waste, play “Count the Birdies in the Tree.”

So the roads are snow-covered, the temperatures drop overnight, and I have a 9:30 am appointment this morning with my eye surgeon 60 miles north of here.  Slick in spots, but overall, the state did a good job with a state covered in ice.

By leaving here earlier than usual, we were on time, and quickly found out that my eye is so crapped up, they can’t even see in it to see exactly how crapped up it is.  They have some fancy machine that scans my retina in the back of the eye, and couldn’t use that, either.  So the first step is to do a YAG Laser Capsulotomy in the hope that this will clear up the back of the lens capsule, so my doctor can look inside and see how much debris is currently in there and how much worse things may have gotten.  The procedure takes less than 10 minutes (at least, mine did today), is painless at this short duration thanks to anesthetic drops, and I noticed an improvement in my vision almost immediately.  (This morning, I had almost no vision in my right eye, and when the technician covered my left eye, I could not see who she was, standing 4 feet away.  Could have been my daughter standing there; I wouldn’t have known the difference)  Now, perhaps 6 hours after the procedure, I can see much better out of the right eye.  It’s still not normal sight, and still blurs out whenever I move my head due to the debris inside sloshing about in there, but it is a hell of an improvement.  Doctor said to expect improvement today, then more, gradually over the next few days.  The procedure is irritating, may cause minor swelling, and as that reduces, I may get a bit more improvement.  Then another trip back up there in 2 weeks when he hopes to be able to do the testing that will indicate whether more surgery is appropriate, to try to clean out the eye. 

I think, today was Eye Surgery #6, in the last 2 years.

We have a sad one at home, under the weather.   An unusually bouncy fellow most of the time, today he is not.  This small Tigger has no bounce at all.   A virus-induced fever has him just laying around, holding his Tigger, glancing at the television.  He is not impressed by the snow falling outside.  He doesn’t even miss his “womb-mate” who went off to day care today without him.  Luckily, Pop is off today, home with him, and the two of them are probably under a blanket on the couch, watching silly movies together.  Or they’re both sleeping, curled up like puppies.

Still working on co-ordinating sweaters for the boys.  Bodies are done, and I’m Magic Looping down the first sleeve.  Three more to go. This one is blue with tan stripes.  The other is, duh, tan with blue stripes.  Quick and easy knit, so that I’ll have both of them done before the boys get out of college.