Saturday, March 17, 2012

March 17th

Today is Saint Patrick's day.  Everyone is going to go out and drink.  I could probably do that too but I don't really feel like it.  I regret waking up again.  I can't focus on anything.  I feel like my entire world takes place in the blurred space between what is real and what I see instead.  I hate it and it saps my will to do anything at all.  I light my room up as best I can but it's still there.

I feel like my destiny is to live in a white-painted room with white every single thing and blaring, ceaseless white florescent lights just to keep myself sane.  Then everything will be fine with no dark colors to contrast against, I hope.  More realistically, though, if I can't find some kind of change, I'll just die miserable and alone (and poor, too, because how am I going to work if I can't concentrate on anything?)

When I was hopeful that things would improve with time, this blog seemed like a great idea.  Things might still improve with time.  I'm a little over a third of the way through the normal six-month healing process.  I think that it is fair to say that my vision is much clearer now than it was the week or two weeks after the surgery.  Better than when I couldn't open my eyes without tearing up, say.  Has it improved much since then?  No, I don't think so.  The glasses help but not with the part that is driving me crazy.  And it is driving me crazy.  This remains the single worst decision I have ever made in my entire life, and I feel like I will never recover from it.

My next meeting with the doctor is scheduled for June.  That is a really, really long time.

Let us rejoice that when the sun expands and swallows our world up in its fires, we will have all long since passed on.

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