A BIT OF THIS AND THAT
Accept my apologies in advance for this post having no real sense of direction ... it's just a mixture of "things" I wanted to catch up on.
First, thanks to everyone who has commented or emailed or called about my latest eye surgery ... a.k.a. the procedure to "correct" what they didn't do quite right the first time. I went in last Thursday afternoon for a 4:00 appointment, and of course, it was after 5:00 before they got around to me. They actually came out to give me Valium in the lobby because they were running so far behind! Of course, by the time they thought to do that, there really wasn't sufficient time left for it to have much impact before they were ready to get started.
Needless to say, I was probably a bit more tense at the start than I'd been last time since this time was for the purpose of correcting something they'd done wrong last time (that tends to make me nervous), and then the Valium not having ample time to work its magic didn't help matters. The doctor ended up putting numbing drops in my eye something like four times before I was actually able to allow him to lift the little flap on my cornea and wash out underneath it.
I can't say anything he did was truly painful, but I will say it was not nearly as comfortable as the actual Lasik surgery was back in June. But the entire process was mercifully short ... literally less than a minute once he lifted the flap, so the comfort or lack thereof wasn't really a big deal.
I came home with the same instructions as before (lubricating drops every hour for the first six hours, pain pills every six hours for the first 24 hours, then as needed after that, and antibiotic drops 4 times daily for a week). The pain pills pretty thoroughly knock me out, so I remember very little of Friday ... but that's the point of the pain pills really because there isn't any actual pain afterward. I'm just supposed to take them because if I'm sleeping, I can't strain my eye as it heals.
At any rate, I went back to work today, swamped up to my elbows in work that should have been finsihed last week (and wasn't because of doctor visits and the unexpected surgery), plus trying to do stuff ahead because I'm scheduled to go to a conference for three days this week in Wilmington ... one of those work-related things that will be boring as all get out, but is a necessary evil if I want to earn the points needed to maintain the certification required for my job classification. I'll be leaving Wednesday and coming home Friday, but I'm praying I'll have internet access from the hotel room. I'm taking my laptop in anticipation of that at least.
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My surgery also resulted in my having to postpone a hair appointment I'd made. That may be a good thing actually. I've been wanting to do something a little different with my hair, and haven't totally decided what just yet. Currently it's similar in color to Hermione's hair in the first Potter film . . .
. . . and it's very similar in length/style as well, although my bangs aren't quite as heavy and mine is even straighter. The length is driving me nuts in this summer heat/humidity, plus I'm starting to think I may be getting a bit old to wear it this long.
I'm starting to get some gray and I need to do something to camouflage it. I tried having it professionally colored, the same shade as my natural color, just to hide the gray, but the color wouldn't stick to the gray. The stylist was so surprised she offered to do it again at no charge, and that time it seemed to work, but two weeks later the gray was showing again, so basic hair coloring just isn't an option for me apparently. I'm thinking of having it highlighted.
And I'm thinking I want to cut it to about shoulder length, but I have to have a style that will look good straight. My hair simply WILL NOT CURL. I can use hot curlers and about half a can of hair spray and the curl might hold an hour or two if the humidity isn't too bad, but that's about it, so it's not really worth the effort except maybe for a short party or something. Maybe it would do a little better with less length to weigh it down, but I can't afford to assume that it will, so a straight style is imperative.
My face shape is somewhere between round and oval ... I can never really decide which myself, and I've had some stylists say it's round and others say it's oval. I don't really think a short cut would look that well on me, and I really want to keep enough length that I can pull it into a ponytail for beach weekends. I've tried searching magazines and online for ideas, but so far I've come up with exactly nothing. If anyone has links to any good hairstyle sites, please drop them into a comment. I'd be most grateful!
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And on a closing note, it occurred to me today that for the first time, I am quite glad that rosepddle and I decided to postpone our London trip. Had we gone on schedule, we'd have come home yesterday and today would have been my first day back at work. And I wouldn't have a London trip in my future to look forward to.
First, thanks to everyone who has commented or emailed or called about my latest eye surgery ... a.k.a. the procedure to "correct" what they didn't do quite right the first time. I went in last Thursday afternoon for a 4:00 appointment, and of course, it was after 5:00 before they got around to me. They actually came out to give me Valium in the lobby because they were running so far behind! Of course, by the time they thought to do that, there really wasn't sufficient time left for it to have much impact before they were ready to get started.
Needless to say, I was probably a bit more tense at the start than I'd been last time since this time was for the purpose of correcting something they'd done wrong last time (that tends to make me nervous), and then the Valium not having ample time to work its magic didn't help matters. The doctor ended up putting numbing drops in my eye something like four times before I was actually able to allow him to lift the little flap on my cornea and wash out underneath it.
I can't say anything he did was truly painful, but I will say it was not nearly as comfortable as the actual Lasik surgery was back in June. But the entire process was mercifully short ... literally less than a minute once he lifted the flap, so the comfort or lack thereof wasn't really a big deal.
I came home with the same instructions as before (lubricating drops every hour for the first six hours, pain pills every six hours for the first 24 hours, then as needed after that, and antibiotic drops 4 times daily for a week). The pain pills pretty thoroughly knock me out, so I remember very little of Friday ... but that's the point of the pain pills really because there isn't any actual pain afterward. I'm just supposed to take them because if I'm sleeping, I can't strain my eye as it heals.
At any rate, I went back to work today, swamped up to my elbows in work that should have been finsihed last week (and wasn't because of doctor visits and the unexpected surgery), plus trying to do stuff ahead because I'm scheduled to go to a conference for three days this week in Wilmington ... one of those work-related things that will be boring as all get out, but is a necessary evil if I want to earn the points needed to maintain the certification required for my job classification. I'll be leaving Wednesday and coming home Friday, but I'm praying I'll have internet access from the hotel room. I'm taking my laptop in anticipation of that at least.
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My surgery also resulted in my having to postpone a hair appointment I'd made. That may be a good thing actually. I've been wanting to do something a little different with my hair, and haven't totally decided what just yet. Currently it's similar in color to Hermione's hair in the first Potter film . . .
. . . and it's very similar in length/style as well, although my bangs aren't quite as heavy and mine is even straighter. The length is driving me nuts in this summer heat/humidity, plus I'm starting to think I may be getting a bit old to wear it this long.
I'm starting to get some gray and I need to do something to camouflage it. I tried having it professionally colored, the same shade as my natural color, just to hide the gray, but the color wouldn't stick to the gray. The stylist was so surprised she offered to do it again at no charge, and that time it seemed to work, but two weeks later the gray was showing again, so basic hair coloring just isn't an option for me apparently. I'm thinking of having it highlighted.
And I'm thinking I want to cut it to about shoulder length, but I have to have a style that will look good straight. My hair simply WILL NOT CURL. I can use hot curlers and about half a can of hair spray and the curl might hold an hour or two if the humidity isn't too bad, but that's about it, so it's not really worth the effort except maybe for a short party or something. Maybe it would do a little better with less length to weigh it down, but I can't afford to assume that it will, so a straight style is imperative.
My face shape is somewhere between round and oval ... I can never really decide which myself, and I've had some stylists say it's round and others say it's oval. I don't really think a short cut would look that well on me, and I really want to keep enough length that I can pull it into a ponytail for beach weekends. I've tried searching magazines and online for ideas, but so far I've come up with exactly nothing. If anyone has links to any good hairstyle sites, please drop them into a comment. I'd be most grateful!
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And on a closing note, it occurred to me today that for the first time, I am quite glad that rosepddle and I decided to postpone our London trip. Had we gone on schedule, we'd have come home yesterday and today would have been my first day back at work. And I wouldn't have a London trip in my future to look forward to.