The Road to Recovery is interrupted by speed bumps.
We had come back from Houston. I had taken almost a week where the only time I was on campus was early in the morning or late afternoon-evening. I took naps during the day. Then on Oct. 13 I conducted the news budget meeting in Multi-Platform News. We were off and running. I was feeling much better, and on Oct. 15 I arranged individual time with each of my students (I usually do that twice in the semester).
All these friendly voices whispered things like “take it easy” and “go slow.” I thought I was. Thursday, Oct. 16, I hit the first speed bump. I had overdone things so much on Wednesday, that when I came onto campus Thursday, I not only was feeling “out of gas,” I also felt mildly nauseous and somewhat light-headed. I had to beg off a meeting with one student, and Nancy came and got me about noon. I think I slept most of the afternoon.
Friday was better. Saturday was so good that I went to my grandson’s party at the roller rink about the time the Tech game was ending. Most of the swelling had left the eye, and the eyelids were wanting to open on their own. Eye patches are not glasses friendly, so we hit upon a plan to have a local discount glasses place put a dark plastic lens on the dark side of the face. That’s another story, but we got the glasses back – done correctly – on Monday.
Monday. Another speed bump. I awakened Monday morning with swelling in the right eye worse than it has been since the bandages were removed. I had an afternoon appointment with Dr. Allison, and he postulated a couple theories; but he said I did not have an infection. He sent me home with instructions to put an ice pack over the eye. We went through a couple packs in the afternoon and evening, and things were much improved.
So we think we are getting the speed bump message. We don’t like it, but we are starting to figure out that progress can be made even at a slower pace.