I started the day just chillin’. I even stayed in my pj’s until 10 while playing on the Wii for an hour. I was getting good. I've got only two more levels to go platinum on. It was supposed to be a great day.
Boy was I WRONG!
I’ve had a problem with my eye over the weekend and made an appointment to have it checked. It hurt when I moved it and my vision started getting funny. It was like I put a piece of thin velum with random holes in it over my right eye. I thought it was just a tired, or maybe even a lazy, eye. At worst I thought maybe I had glaucoma, and since I caught it early it is treatable. Again I was WRONG!
The optometrist I went into see did a few test and looked at my eye for what felt like forever, but was really only about an hour. And then he delivered the worst news of my life. “You have Optic Neuritis.” And in the same breath said, “You will probably get MS. If not it could mean a stroke or even an aneurism.” Great….I was alone when I found this out, Caleb was keeping Becka busy elsewhere in the store. Surprisingly I kept it together very well. The doctor most likely thought I was dumb and didn’t understand. I was scared out of my mind. (Strangely though I really didn’t believe it, of course this was based on the fact that I received a blessing stating that I would be healed.) And what I was most scared about was the fact that I would ‘have’ to have other tests like an MRI and such which are not cheap.
Oh by the way I don’t have health insurance. DO NOT lecture me on it. I know I need it. But how can we pay for it? We live paycheck to paycheck and with the Lord’s help it is exactly enough for what we need.
Of course I went to get a second opinion; this time to an opthamologist/MD. He had to squeeze me in between surgeries so it was a looonnnggg afternoon. Caleb kept Rebecka entertained though out it. We didn’t know how long it was going to take, we were told only an hour; it turned into almost three.
However in the end it was worth it. I DO have Optic Neuritis. It DOES NOT mean I will get MS or a stroke or an aneurism. Optic neuritis is the inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision. It will heal in about a month with or without corticosteroids IV. I have a follow up appointment next week but this time the doctor didn’t seem overly concerned. And he didn’t FREAK me out.
I’m as happy as a one eyed clam as I walk out to the car. I tell my hubby the news with a smile on my face, only to have him crush it under his feet. “Honey,” he says sweetly, “The van won’t start.”
So good thing for little sisters that work a block away. MaLynda’s Taxi Service came to the rescue two minutes later on her shinning, not so white, stallion, Bungee.
We got home and started getting things in order for the van. I called our insurance company while Caleb talked to our mechanic (yes we have our very own mechanic, you have to with my vehicle luck). A tow truck was due to show up in one hour and our mechanic was open to fix it tomorrow.
Now we had to rush to get Caleb to class and then I needed to find someone to watch Becka. On our way to school our friends drive by going to our place. “Quick call them!” I met them at MaLynda’s and they willingly took Becka home with them and said they would pick Caleb up at 6 and not to worry about it.
Tow truck man, Steve, came and got the van. We had a nice chat all the way to 
Uncle Lowell just happened to have a meeting up in Cedar and was just leaving for it. I hitched a ride with him and the Pearson's fed us dinner, brought us home and I promptly fell asleep after we put Becka down.
The End
P.S. All in favor of getting rid of Mondays please make it manifest.
So as you all know New Harmony is on fire and has been evacuated. No news there. The fire was started July 25th by lighting way up in Pine Valley. The BLM has kept their eyes on it and have done their job well. But atlas the winds have changed and the fire has turned toward the town.
U.S. Forest Service speaking on the Mill Flat fire: Its location in areas with remnant aspen is helping to clear the way for future aspen regeneration by creating openings in the conifer." So my understanding is that the conifers are thriving and not allowing the aspens to have a chance. So to make it equal again, there needs to be a fire.
Naturally-ignited fires like the Mill Flat Fire can accomplish the Forest Service’s objectives for fire in wilderness areas: “Permit lightning caused fires to play, as nearly as possible, their natural ecological role within wilderness,” and “Reduce, to an acceptable level, the risks and consequences of wildfire within wilderness or escaping from wilderness.”
