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flwyd ([personal profile] flwyd) wrote2016-02-11 11:06 pm
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Spacific Destination

Last month, on the Thursday before the Saturday on which I was scheduled to fly across the Pacific Ocean, I couldn't bear to keep my right eye open for more than a second because everything was bright and painful. The eye surgeon gave me a prescription for durezol, a steroid in eye drop form, to be taken every hour while awake, plus dilation drops three times a day. He told me to come back the next day. "I assume I shouldn't fly to Australia on Saturday," I said, having already resigned to the honeymoon cancellation. "Not unless you're going straight from the tarmac to a doctor's office," he said.

It's Thursday again, and we've got tickets to Maui. Half as far as New Zealand and for half as long, but I have twice as many functioning eyeballs, so I'll call it even. I'm about as packed now as I was a month ago, but I feel much more ready to go.

[identity profile] altamira16.livejournal.com 2016-02-12 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I am glad that your eyeballs have recovered.

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2016-02-13 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Woo! This time will be a vast improvement. Have a grand time. I'm totally envious.