Suffering


The lovely Zokotou Meter site seems to be overloaded!

I'm still working away. My computer seems to be holding up, but I'm not... well, not exactly. I had a theatre conference to attend this weekend. I'm really glad that I went - I heard lots of exciting and good information - but it really made me tired. Yesterday morning I awoke, put in my contacts, had breakfast and then felt like something was in my eye. I took out the contact, cleaned it repeatedly, but it still felt like something was in my eye. I had to get to the conference, so I left and all morning it was driving me crazy. I ended up leaving the conference and coming home to try to sort it out. As soon as I got home I ripped out my contacts and tried flushing the eye with saline. Wow, that stung!

Now, I've had conjunctivitis several times in my life, but I've never had these symptoms. It wasn't until around 5:00 when a bunch of green and yellow gunk started coming out of my eye did I realize that this might be pink eye. So I went to the doctor and sure enough, conjunctivitis. To make things worse I also have a fever blister/cold sore. It's not terribly painful, but really uncomfortable. My immune system is obviously screaming for help.

So, despite all of my trials and tribulations I am still writing. I'm not where I want to be, but still on track to be at 40,000 by tomorrow. That'd mean I only have to do 2,500 each day to finish, which sounds reasonable except that I'm working from 9am-11pm on Tuesday and pretty much until 11pm again on Thursday. Hopefully I'll be able to get this thing done. I've worked so hard at it!