Time To Get Things Sorted

A series of things happened. The pain in my face continued and I took anything I could to get the pain to subside. My ears would turn red and swell. I looked like Rudolph the red nosed reindeer when my nose got red on occasion. After a little while of taking Excedrin Migraine or Ibuprofen 800 my stomach was in pain too. It would hurt if I ate and if I didn’t. I had chest pain, but I knew it wasn't my heart. My ribs hurt as if I was in a corset. The tinnitus was getting louder and my husband mentioned how loud I had the volume on things. I unconsciously did this to drown out the continual buzzing. None of this made sense to me, but I wasn’t going to let it keep me down.

 
“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you can’t see the shadows. That’s what the sunflowers do.”
-:- Helen Keller -:-

Early one day after my husband left to go golfing, I showered and while drying my hair I realized everything was cloudy in the room. Thinking I had shampoo in my eyes, I rinsed them out and still everything looked like a cloud was in my house. Looking in the mirror my eyes were extremely bloodshot, my pupils were pin dots and there was a terrible pain behind my eyes. It felt like they were going to pop out of my head. I took some ibuprofen, put a cold towel over my eyes and tried to get some rest. 

When my husband came home, we went to the optometrist. He started to check my eyes and immediately sent me to a specialist, he said I wasn’t going to lose my eyesight on his watch. In fact, he told us to get in the car and start driving to the eye clinic and he would call us with the name of which doctor to see. We met with two doctors there and I found that my pressure was 47 in one eye and 44 in the other. Your normal pressure should be 13. I had uveitis.  My ophthalmologist said that is was caused by an autoimmune disease and we needed to find out which one or this would happen again. My eyes had covered over with some type of inflammation,  that is what I was looking through. He treated me with cortisone drops and watched me closely for months. We were able to get the pressure down without having to make a tiny drainage hole in my eyes to relieve it. We now needed to find out what autoimmune disease was attacking me so it wouldn't do this to my eyes again.

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Sunflowers turn according to the position of the sun. In other words, they “chase the light.” Have you ever wondered what happens on cloudy and rainy days when the sun is completely covered by clouds? They turn towards each other to share their energy.

Nature’s perfection is amazing. Now let’s apply this reflection to our lives. Many people may become low-spirited, and the most vulnerable ones, sometimes, become depressed. How about following the example of the beautiful sunflowers "Supporting and empowering each other". Nature has so much to teach us.