May Murmurings

 About time I caught up on my blog! The weather has turned a little chilly, we have had minus 3 and 4's but turning into sunny days, if a little cool. I caught this rainbow one morning on my ride back home.

The cygnets are growing bigger and have become very happy to see Bill with his cornflakes.

We had Lachlan and Abby over for a Mother's Day dinner and Bindi and Charlie joined us. We had a lovely time, Charlie made dessert- a Charlie Chocolate Cake- it was very good!

Lucy is such an adorable dog, here she is finding a comfortable place to hang out!

Had my annual skin check and now have to torture myself- have to use a cream on my nose to help get rid of any pre cancerous or cancerous cells on my nose. You have to put the cream on your nose for three weeks, twice a day. Your nose gets redder and redder and then scaly and horrible and hopefully the yucky skin with the skin cancer bits falls off! In the meantime you have to look terrible! Nearly at the three week mark!

At the start.

Stay tuned it is getting worse!

I am not sure if you noticed it but the pupil in my right eye ( on the left side as you look at the screen) is larger that the left one. That is a saga in itself.

I was sitting talking to Bill and Amy when Amy noticed that my right pupil was very dilated. She insisted that I go to the Walk In Clinic to get it checked. I was feeling absolutely fine but only went to stop Amy being anxious. Off I went, got seen by the nurse, asked me all sorts of questions, did some testing of my eyes, thought everything was okay but rang TCH and they wanted me to go to the Emergency Department. Off I went, had to wait about 15 minutes to be seen by the triage nurse, who made me a category 2 and then they took me into the eye room- no waiting, a doctor came and saw me, asked me a couple of questions, and said it wasn’t an emergency and that a doctor would come a see me. I had to wait 2 hours but that was okay, I was in a room by myself and had my book.

The doctor came and saw me, asked me lots of questions, did some more tests. Didn’t think there was anything to worry about but wanted to rule things out- so I had to have a CT Scan. The results came back- I did have a brain, which Amy was worried they wouldn’t find it- cheeky girl. They did find a very small 2.5mm aneurysm in my left carotid artery- opposite side to my right eye so didn’t think there was a connection. He said I should check in with my GP next week and it would probably be worth getting it scanned once a year to keep an eye on it. The Doctor then rang the Ophthalmologist registrar who got him to put one eye drop in that eye, we waited 20 minutes, and it made the pupil go smaller, so I was allowed to go home, but had to go to the eye clinic the next day. Got home around 11pm, Bill and Amy cam an picked me up as they didn’t want to drive home in case I had blurry vision, I would have been fine but better to be safe and sorry.  

Next day I went to the Eye Clinic at the Canberra Hospital

I saw the ophthalmologist who asks me lots of questions, does some tests, talks to the doctor, does some more tests, talks to the doctor then I see the eye doctor who does more looking, tests etc. He thinks everything is okay, they have done their due diligence, I can go home, they don’t need to see me  again but want me to go see my GP next week and see an optometrist in a month or so for a check-up and if any concerns they can contact them, but in the meanwhile if I have double vision, a bad headache, blurry vision or a droopy eye to go to the ED department immediately. So busy times! The hospital staff were great, I was just tired the next day from the late night, Amy wants to be given the title of Honorary Doctor for diagnosing me with an aneurysm. 

I saw my GP the following week, he was quite intrigued, was going to do some reading up on it, they will monitor me- but looks like I am a little weird!