I have a cold, and I’m grateful. 🙂 Why grateful? Because I started having headaches and stabbing pains around and in my left eye last week. Pains in the eye were one of the things I was supposed to tell the eye doctor about — the inflammed iris coming back? I didn’t think so because my vision wasn’t blurry and I didn’t have those black floaters I had had before, so I decided to wait to see if it got better. Nope. Friday morning the pains became intense, and they were definitely in the eye. Bless the eye doctor, she worked me in that afternoon. It wasn’t the iris, just viral conjunctivitis from a cold. Nothing to be done but wait until it got better. I can handle that. 🙂
Peace of mind helps a lot. So did a Mother’s Day card (along with a gift) from Torben and Kaitlin. This is the picture on it:
That’s great for the old immune system too. In fact, the pains are mostly gone by now, and it’s been a great weekend. How was yours?
May 11, 2015
From the late evening of the 29th April, I developed a cold, somewhat different from yours, primarily with a lot of phlegm building up in my lungs resulting in coughing and shortness of breath. Unlike all these years gone by, I went the Ayurvedic route and did not take any antibiotics or allopathic medication. Since last Friday, I have been completely free of all symptoms and am feeling fine. The only problem was during the time I had it, I took a fall slipping over a pair of socks that Chutki used to play with and took a fall hurting myself quite badly. Even those effects are now gone and I am perfectly fine looking forward to a great time during the rest of this summer.
I never take medications for colds. I just drink plenty of fluids, eat a healthy diet, and get plenty of sleep. Oh, yes. I also try to enjoy myself as best I can. Life is too short not to.
Me too, I have a cold. The good news for you is about your eyes; the good news for me is about my lungs which so far are not falling into the excessive coughing pattern. I bet my persuading the doctors to stop my steroid inhaler has a lot to do with this, plus I can also walk faster and enjoy hikes more. btw, have you read Atul Gawande’s article in the May 11 New Yorker about unnecessary medical treatments?
I’m happy about your lungs! I had a persistent cough years ago and figured it was just lingering effects. But I read a couple of articles that said if a cough lasts more than two weeks we should get it checked out. So I went to my doctor who was sure it was asthma and wanted me to take prednisone. No way! So he prescribed an inhaler which I used a bit, then I went to another doctor who agreed with my diagnosis. I dropped the inhaler and switched to the new doctor.
I haven’t read the article, but I’m well aware that some doctors over-treat.
oh doh! a code in da eye is worse than a code in da node!!!
you have suffered ENOUGH!!! good grief. give this little monk a break!
and i loved your mother’s day card… i enjoyed that post myself!
you have wonderful granddoggies! not to mention daughter and son-in-love!
xo get better soon!!!
No poor monk here — I’ve been incredibly happy the past few months. I’m mainly grateful for my eye doctor who caught the shingles right away and who gave me peace of mind this weekend. No permanent eye damage — that’s the one thing I was concerned about.
And I’m elated that I have some energy back. As I said, I was happy even when I was wiped out by the shingles, but it is refreshing to be able to do more than just sleep a lot, wander around the apartment for exercise, and watch Frasier and read cartoons for laughs.
Yes, I do have a wonderful family!
Oh thank goodness it’s a cold.
If it had been me, I would have Googled it and then got myself all worked up into thinking it was something awful and incurable.
But a cold, while not pleasant, is much preferred!
Glad you had a good Mothers Day,
a card with that photo on it, definitely had to make a person smile!
Take care of yourself!
and feed that cold, or is it feed a fever?
Oh well! I feed both, just in case! LOL!
xoxo
Cindi, you’re hilarious. Your comment is making my day.
I get into trouble with Google too. Also I get three emails a day from doctors that point out all kind of trouble.
Jean, so glad 🙂 the cold wasn’t something else 🙁
My husband (the expert) says it’s Feed a cold & Starve a fever. Often I disagree with him to find out he’s right. (Not good for my ego.)
I know, I know. My ego must learn to accept being wrong most of the time. 🙂
Cindi,
Bless my eye doctor for taking a look at my eye and giving me peace of mind.
Kaitlin and I did use the internet about a month ago when the doctor prescribed 8 drops a day of corticosteroids when the instructions from the pharmacist said the usual dose was one or two drops a day. Too much can damage the eye, and I was too sick to handle it by myself, so I phoned Kaitlin. She looked it up and apparently 8 drops was fairly standard for what I had. The doctor gradually tapered it off so the inflammation wouldn’t come bouncing back. The doctor also checked regularly to watch for side effects, so I was happy about the treatment.
Apparently a lot of Ebola survivors are losing their eyesight because of inflammation and lack of treatment.
i forgot to mention… i love that little cold face cartoon you did!!! so cute.
you captured the EXACT feeling of a cold!
Thanks! I had a good time doing it.
We had a nice weekend. We had a couch surfer staying with us, a lovely Dutch girl.
I’m happy for you. 🙂
hope your cold has flushed away… along with your eye ailment
Thanks. It’s a lot better. 🙂