My uveitis is back. I haven't had a flare up since 2006. I believe that it's linked to my joints and inflammation because I recently started powerwalking and I'm sure my joints were like, "WHAT THE HELL???"
Anyway, I made an appointment with the specialist and he worked me in the next day. I was always told to have a driver because they were going to dilate my eyes, but I never had one - not even back when the girls were little. I would always drive myself there and home...no problem. I decided to have a driver this time so my friend Tania rode with me - that was a hard decision.
I'm not old. I'm no where near being old but this office is filled to the brim with blue hairs. All the memories came flooding back when I walked in the door. Remembering when I had 2 LITTLE kids when I started going there in 2001.
I was called in by an not so friendly nurse - she was new since I'd been there last. We went through the pre-screening; she updated my medical history, took my blood pressure, eye pressure, checked my vision and then put in the dilating drops. There is another waiting room where people go to wait while the drops do their job. I took a seat in the farthest corner away...I was the only person in there. An old man who was flirting with the nurse came in saying that he knows better than to talk to strangers... Of all the 20+ empty chairs in that waiting room, he walks clear across the room and sits 2 seats away from me. I think had I not put my purse in the seat next to me, he would have sat down there! I looked up and smiled - thinking he would talk to me, but he didn't. Then I wondered why he came all that way to sit, but not talk. When they called my name to see the doctor, he said "you leaving me so soon?"...
You know you are in an old folks doctors office when this is next to the toilet in the bathroom...
still a young'un,
kath
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