Blearg, part the second
October 23, 2007 by Scott
I haven’t been running for quite a while now, because of my eyelid infection and the antibiotics I’ve been on for it. I look awful and feel awful. It has been hard — I’ve failed, actually — to keep a positive mindset about the whole thing. I’ve been lashing out at people left and right and I don’t feel good about that either. Sorry, folks.
The only sign of improvement is that my eyelid is no longer completely swelled up like some grand Zeppelin experiment gone awry. No, now it’s only about a half to two thirds of it that is. It’s a subtle difference in practice, since the parts that aren’t swollen still have to stretch out to connect with the parts that are, so the entire lid still appears gargantuan and Quasimodoesque.
The treatments? Antibiotics (pills and drops) — who knows if they’ve done anything. (Certainly not with the predicted speed.) Hot packs, to melt the waxy deposits that cause the blockages in my eyelid that seem to start the whole thing. The idea is to put as much heat as you can stand, for as long a time as you can stand, directly onto the swollen, tender lid. Sound like fun? Yeah, well, contrary to most people’s expectations, not all runners are masochists, and neither am I.
Now, don’t lash out at me, but I feel that a picture of your swollen, nasty eyelid oozing waxy substances, posted to this blog, would be apropos. Just so that we can like, you know, properly sympathize with you.
That aside, sorry you’re feeling crappy. :-(
Yeah, show us the picture. It’s the same as your toe…what are you afraid of?
Reminds me of this cool boxing game for the 80’s Macs. Round to round one could give his boxer a strategy for the upcoming round. Depending on how things were going, one option was “Work on that eye”. That’s the strategy I’d go for here, if I were you. Work on that eye.
Michael, hey, don’t you work in, like, the next cubicle over from Scott, or something? You get to see his eye every day. Why do you want to see a picture?
Ooh! But, you could sneak up on Scott, take a picture, then post it on *your* blog! That would rock. Unless it made Scott really mad at you, or something.
Scott, I don’t get disfiguring ailments very often, but next time I do I promise I’ll post a picture on my blog, if you post a picture of your eye on your blog. Your infected eye, I mean. Don’t try weaseling out of it.