Now That My Eyes Are Open

I really was doing great, you know? I was rather busy in one form or another in July with church camp for 2 week but I still managed to crank out blog posts for the Bible reading program (some posts previously scheduled) as well as be able to fulfill my babysitting responsibilities and keep up with my church office obligations.

Things were going so well that we even stopped at a local farm and bought 65 ears of corn (5 dozen sold as a baker's dozen of 13 ears) and got them all processed the same day.

There were a couple of things scheduled on the calendar this past weekend: a canoe trip, and an out-of-town preaching appointment for Pastor Dad.

Uh, I didn't make those.

By Saturday morning, the day of the canoe trip, my eyes were swollen. By Sunday morning my whole neck and face were one angry rash and my eyes were swollen shut! A visit to a health clinic was thereby decreed necessary by one Pastor Dad.

It was quite fun answering the nurse practitioner's questions. To what kind of things have I been exposed lately?

"Well, how about Scarlet Fever and Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease?"

While she found those answers intriguing what she meant specifically was what kind of poison plants have I been exposed to recently?

"None of which I am aware." And believe me, when it comes to poison ivy, I am aware. It grows nicely in our flower beds (one of the joys of living near the woods ~ sigh) but I had not seen any the last time I worked in the yard . . . which had been earlier in the week.

And for the last couple of days I hadn't been seeing much of anything, poison ivy or otherwise.

But now that I am being pumped full of Zyrtec and prednisone along with my regular daily regimen of Claritin (which the practitioner said kept my case from being even worse than it was, perish the thought!) the itching is easing and my eyes are open once more.

So in a few days I will have all of the memory verse and summary material from the last week posted for those who are interested.

And if any of you are following the Blind Love and Blessings series the high doses of steroids are doing wonders for my hair but they are causing such eating binges that I really will be glad when the 10 day prescription regimen has passed. I fear it wouldn't matter how full the head of steroid-grown hair might be if it sits atop the Goodyear Blimp!