Although I am somewhat rejuvenated from a holiday in Tenerife, I’m feeling a bit sorry for myself having been unwell just before going away and on my return, taking a trip to A&E to be diagnosed with anterior uveitis in my left eye. Apparently this was not from getting splashed in the eye a lot wearing contact lenses at the waterpark but could be just because my immune system was rundown. In fact, my mum reminded me I had complained of some irritation but I didn’t realise until I had what felt like a really strange headache, followed by bloodshot eye, and then today woke up with extreme sensitivity to the light and a watering eye.
I will need to wear my glasses as much as possible and potentially avoid certain activities that may aggravate it. It has resulted in a slight loss of work today but they seem to think that it was good news that it wasn’t an ulcer as I did previously have an ulcer and that resulted in a scarring of the cornea. The vision in the left eye has been impacted and I’m feeling a bit nauseated from the eyedrop medication aside from certain chores and listening to podcast some music. I’ve become really aware of how much I use my eyes and so I do really need to be more careful and after this make sure I’m taking daily eyedrops that I was told to take for eye dryness.
As I mentioned previously, I’m going to be starting full-time work soon but this doesn’t mean the end of freelance work. I’ll be tutoring on Saturdays until January and obviously doing a lot of unpaid creative work whether that’s working towards my own personal projects or running the Forest Hill stanza or potentially During stuff with She Grrrowls. However, I envisage myself ending these posts and as I said before perhaps integrating some of my recommendations in my mailing list which I tried to send out once a month with a poem a little update and Wood be worth including some of the books I’ve been reading and so on I subscribe to Jasmine Cooray‘s poem list and to Paula Varjack‘s mailing list so with mine, I’m including a kind of more condensed list of things like Paula Varjack and kind of building onto the poem mail out that Jasmine Cooray does.
I was looking forward to having a couple of weeks now to do some art making get on top of emails. Do some submissions do a bit of crafting with old greeting cards and a bracelet making kit, as well as do my homework for the Princess Nokia gig as those who are close to me will know that I intensely listen to any artist that I book tickets to see on the lead up to seeing them. I’m meanwhile looking forward to getting my induction timetable and getting started on the 5th of November!
Watching: Shrinking, Girlfriends, The Bear
Reading: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green, All Fours by Miranda July, Heartburn by Nora Ephron, Sexy but Psycho by Dr Jessica Taylor, and This is Yesterday by Rose Ruane
Podcasts: Jillian on Love, On Attachment
Music: Princess Nokia
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