result- no!!! so turns out i have pink eye. yeah that is what i get for grieving that nothing interesting was happening in my life. yeah two re puuffy eyes ! actually , my eye was read a coupl weeks ago and jon graciously and oh so helpfully pointed out that pink eye comes from getting feces in the eye and maybe i slept on a pillow that someone kept in between their legs and farted on and that is how i got pink eye. but turns out it was just red- but then two days ago....
melissa and i had a last minute rager on wednesday night and as a result we wanted to do nothing more then go to pleo for massages. we devised a new 'packet' - half hour foot massage and half hour head neck and shoulder massage. i wont suggest this in the ftuure, if you have the woman i did. it was the worst massage of my life, to be frank, and i literally found myself itching to just kick her off me . talk about not being relaxed, if anything it built the angst up to a furious level becuase i was having an inner battle with myself- like if it is bad, i should say something, but no, maybe it was better, maybe soon she would flip me over and change her movement, no i should say something, no i shouldnt. back and forth raising my anziety level to a new limit. so finally i just say ENOUGH and she doesnt stop!! it was like you know when someone touches you continuously in one place it starts to get really annoying and it doesnt hurt or anything but you just need it to stop LIKE NOW. that is how it was.
so about half way through the massage ( of which she never at any point even had me flip over) i started to notice my eye watering a lot and starting to feel swollen. i am not accustomed to laying face down for that long so i thought maybe it was just pressure building up in my head. but it started to get really uncomfortable and felt inceredibly swollen. when it was over FINALLY i sat up and my eye was throbbing and red and swollen out to rival my chest!! amongst the staffs concern i kept the freak out to a minimum, but mel and i went straight to the pharmacy. the way it works here is you walk in, tell them what is wrong with you and they go in the back and pull out something and tell you waht to do. no they are not doctors.... i know.
at least the instructions, etc were also in english! so we go home and put in the drops and let the swelling go down until about normal. actually wait, my timeline is off, that is the night we went out? crap i am confused...so yeah i guess we went out that night- eye and all! the next morning i woke up in a horrified state- aka my eye wouldnt open. so mel (bless her) leaves work to take me to the hospital. we went to the international one- was actualyl realyl quite nice- the doctor was very nice and of course diagnosed me with conjunctivits. pink eye. ( mel and i have decided that this term really freaks us out so we are only refering to is as 'eye infection of the undetermined kind' . so then she proceeds to tell me that im starting to get it in my other eye too. great. so 60 dollars and some medication later we are back on the road. for some crazy reason we decided that we were up for going to carrefour. insane.
back at the casa.....eyes have taken a turn for the worse. i am in so much pain, lying there immobile holding compresses up to my eyes, putting in drops, rubbing a gold ring around them ( a suggestion of lindas friend?!) i was a miserable sack of life yesterday. it was horrible. i started to cry at one point , overwhelmed by the uncomfortable-ness(such a baby) but mel snapped me into shape. thanks mel:) not before calling me quasimoto and trying to get me to dress up in the brown colored rain pancho and shoving a pillow in my shoulder to make a hump. yeah we would have done it but linda had freinds over and i dont know if they would have 'got it'
so i realize in the late afternoon that dirk is coming to town and i pretty much like bullied him into doing it and as yet, he had not actually confirmed his flight. but just as i think i am in the clear and can hole up in the house all night he calls!! soooo yeah i sucked it up, showered and pulled a hat low over my eyes, loaded up on visine and eye drops, donned my rain poncho and headed into kuta. he assured me we would just go for a few beers at a 'dark bar where no one will stare and those who do you will not care about' and he was right!! i didnt eat much yesterday and am thinking maybe the antibiotic drops made me accelearte from sober to drunk in like two beers. so yeah as you can well imagine last night turned into an all night rager yet again!! i just told people i was really high;) to be honest i dont even think most people noticed. and if you are wondering if guys still hit on you in kuta if you have two pink pussy eyes the answer is yes. seriously? i think i got hit on more last night then any other night out and i was scrubbed out and aporting blisters for eyes. incredible this place. people could care less! haha
and in true karmic form melissa awoke this morning with pink eye. aside from calling me quasi she actually really really helped me yesterday so i feel HORRIBLE!! sorry stanger:)
today we are looking better- not 100 percent- but better!
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ayuh - my eyes are itching just from reading this! Yuck and no fun! According to my nutritional healing book you should increase your consumption of dark leafy greens and berries, take vitamins E and C, and apply a hot compress to the eyes. Also don't know if you can find it there, but there's a good homeopathic drop called 'Similasan' that has a pink eye formula. Good luck!
thanks guys:) im feeling better these days!
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