Going Downhill
Dec. 27th, 2025 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperThe best part of the day was meeting up with Steve, Dorotha, and their son Tom who were in town visiting relatives for Christmas. We had a lovely lunch. And then I had to hit the road to Hobart, Indiana to pick up assorted Junior Midkiffs for Eighth Note Fest. We got off a bit later than I'd intended, because lunch ran longer than anticipated, but it turned out that we were trying to meet at two different McDonald's that were about 25 miles apart. Oops. We got that fixed.
While we were waiting, I noticed that the Speedway next door to the McD's had gas at 2.29, so I headed over there to fill up. It was at that point that my left eye started bleeding internally. Not a lot, but noticeably. It wasn't bad enough to keep me from driving and I really didn't want to turn K loose on the Borman and the Tri-State under these circumstances for her first experience with serious highway driving, so I drove us home.
Meanwhile, Gretchen tried to contact United Healthcare to see if I should just go to the ER. If United Healthcare's phone tree hadn't kept transferring her phone call to places that rang and hung up on her, maybe we would have found out what they thought. Maybe.
So I just drove to the ER, handed the keys to K, and headed in. Some four and a half hours and an ultrasound later, I headed back out to where K had returned to pick me up, not necessarily a lot wiser about exactly what was going on, but assured that nothing too horrible had happened so far.
I have a referral to the on-call-tonight opthamologist and will, with any luck, get an appointment for an exam with equipment better suited for the problem on Monday.
*sigh*
Meanwhile, the dishwasher has broken. Tomorrow, I will go buy a new dishwasher.
*Now*, I will go to bed. :)
While we were waiting, I noticed that the Speedway next door to the McD's had gas at 2.29, so I headed over there to fill up. It was at that point that my left eye started bleeding internally. Not a lot, but noticeably. It wasn't bad enough to keep me from driving and I really didn't want to turn K loose on the Borman and the Tri-State under these circumstances for her first experience with serious highway driving, so I drove us home.
Meanwhile, Gretchen tried to contact United Healthcare to see if I should just go to the ER. If United Healthcare's phone tree hadn't kept transferring her phone call to places that rang and hung up on her, maybe we would have found out what they thought. Maybe.
So I just drove to the ER, handed the keys to K, and headed in. Some four and a half hours and an ultrasound later, I headed back out to where K had returned to pick me up, not necessarily a lot wiser about exactly what was going on, but assured that nothing too horrible had happened so far.
I have a referral to the on-call-tonight opthamologist and will, with any luck, get an appointment for an exam with equipment better suited for the problem on Monday.
*sigh*
Meanwhile, the dishwasher has broken. Tomorrow, I will go buy a new dishwasher.
*Now*, I will go to bed. :)