This Time With Pictures!

This is seriously kicking my ass. I have never had anything like this before and it's shocking to me how much this has taken me down. I'm beyond exhausted and I don't know if it's the Benadryl, the infection, the Ibuprofen, or the antibiotic that's causing it. I can barely keep my eyes open! I can't read for more than a few minutes at a time and that has made schoolwork really difficult. I had to do a test this morning and read 2 chapters, which normally would have taken me an hour. Today it took me over 3 hours! I could only read 1-2 pages at a time and the test involved a lot of math so I was switching back and forth between a calculator and my computer. It's hard to explain, but because of the swelling, when I blink it takes longer to focus when my eye opens. So each time I would switch my line of vision, then blink, and it would take me a few seconds to focus and then switch back again. It was way too time consuming and by the time I got done I had a headache.

Working out has proven to be a challenge too. First of all, the exhaustion makes it super hard to get motivated. I think I could seriously sleep all day. My body is refusing to let me push through this one. I've really had to slow WAY down and let myself recover. I did manage to get on the treadmill and walk at a 4 incline at 3.5 mph for about 30 minutes. Then I came home and did some minor weight lifting, push-ups, sit-ups, planks, squats, and shuffling back and forth across the living room. I'm so not coordinated and it took me weeks to be able to shuffle quickly around a bag so I don't want to lose that. We literally do laps of shuffling in training so if I start falling over myself again it will set me back a lot.

I miss the intense workouts. The hitting, the running, the kicking, and the hundreds of push-ups make me  happy. Right now it hurts to sweat though. This morning I was just barely breaking a sweat and any sweat close to my eye burns. It's not such a great feeling. I also can't wipe it constantly because I'm not supposed to touch it with anything that isn't sterile. I have these little sterile eyelid cloths in packets that I use to wipe it off several times a day to remove anything that has crusted on there. Other than that I try to avoid touching it at all.

Yesterday it was downright painful. Every time I would blink it felt like I was being stabbed in the eye. Today it's just swollen and draining a little bit. It's still definitely tender, but no stabbing pain! When I talked to the doctor this morning she said it sounds like it's starting to heal so that's good news. I still have to keep taking the massive amount of medicine until the swelling is completely gone though. The Benadryl and Ibuprofen really help with the swelling a lot! My antibiotic is for 10 days but she said I might need another round after that if it's not completely gone. Apparently eye infections are hard to get rid of.

Anyways… This was yesterday:

 And this is from this morning:

Please ignore the fact that I can't wear any makeup and need to have my eyebrows waxed. That was supposed to happen yesterday, but there's no way I'm letting hot wax anywhere near that region at the moment. It looks a million times better today than yesterday. The swelling has gone down a ton! That whole side of my face is still slightly swollen, but not like it was! I don't look like I got in a bar fight anymore! I just look like I took an elbow to the eye or something. I'll take any improvement.