Sucky Week

I thought last week was the suckiest ever; work was hard and the people I had to deal with were a nightmare and I couldn't find anyone to go to Chinese New Year with, which just reminded me that all my friends are miles and miles away and my life is depressingly lonely.
But this week was the ultimate.

Monday:
Went to the doctor before work because I noticed a lump inside my lower eyelid and it hurt and itched like hell. Found out I have an inflamed tear gland (there's a technical term for it but I can't remember, it begins with a B :-p) which has probably resulted from an ultra depressing event in January. So doctor prescribes me an ointment to apply to it 4 times a day and tells me I need to wipe the eye with warm salty water before each time. Of course the pharmacy can't give me the ointment for ages so I have to collect it after work. Work was surprisingly not so bad. But I was seriously pissed that the place was a mess because last week me and my colleague sorted/tidied/cleaned everything. I hate lazy messy gits. So I get my ointment after work and it's nigh impossible to stick in my eye because it's like vaseline and won't drop off the damn tube. Awesome. I've got the hang of it now, 4 days later. Was so tired when I got home but had to make dinner and sort out my uniform etc.

Tuesday:
My most difficult crèche with several crying kids and babies that need to be settled and I end up having to carry them about. Got home completely emotionally and physically drained. But I had to make dinner. Tuesday night, around midnight, a sharp pain in my eye woke me up. Incredibly annoying because I have to get to work at 8:30am on Wednesday, which means 7:30am catch the bus and wake up at 6:30am.

Wednesday:
My eye is red like darth maul so I wash my eye, put in some eyedrops and try to sleep. An hour later I still can't sleep, it's getting painful so I go to wash it again and see that the membrane is gone, my eye looks exposed and my eyeball has swollen to a weird shape. Looking left or right hurts even more, I can see my iris trying to move through the doughy white of my eyeball, making it crease. But it's like my eyeball is too swollen to move properly. I could literally see my iris as a separate thing to the white of my eye. I bet you're loving this awesome gruesome description :-p sorry but only after hearing it can you fully appreciate how completely freaked out I was.
But it was too late to go to the doctors and too late to wake anyone up to drive me to A&E. The last time something similar happened it was an allergic reaction to my cat.  She's started sneaking into my room to sleep on my bed of late so I took an allergy tablet and went to bed. I get to sleep some time after 2.
7:30 and the eye still hurts and is swollen but the membrane seems to be back. I texted my boss and stayed home from work. Eventually the pills start to take effect and I rest my eyes in the evening and they get back to almost normal. I stressed so much about the allergic eye I almost forgot about the other one.

Thursday:
Wake up for work and what do you know, the tiny screw holding my glasses together falls out and is lost and my lens falls out. With my eyes so messed up I can't wear my contacts. Great. So I decide to go to the opticians before work and get it fixed. It's pouring with rain but luckily I have my new wellies to keep my feet dry. I wait for the bus to the opticians which is in the opposite direction to the one for work. 20 minutes later there's no bus so I decide to swap sides and go to work or I'll probably be late. I get the bus to work (first bus anyway) and just to make life easier, the bus driver kicks off all the passengers one stop before my stop! Awesome, and it's still raining. And I have to walk 5 minutes from my regular stop to get my 2nd bus anyway, so now I'm walking about 20 minutes in the rain without my glasses so everything's blurry. A song comes on my ipod that reminds me of what had been depressing me since January and I end up walking to the stop in the rain with tears running down my face, too depressed to even open my umbrella. Pathetic, I know.
I get to work finally 40 minutes early! I could have gone to the opticians after all  but it's too late now. So I skip that stop and stop by a shop for a milkshake and walk back to work from there in the rain. At work I realise I remembered my eye ointment but forgot my allergy pills.
Luckily, work was a lot calmer than the week before and things go fine. I sellotape my glasses so that I can at least see. On the way home was expecting to be picked up but mum said she can't come and can I bring some coriander on the way. So I take a detour on my way to the opticians and get my eyebrows threaded too (ouch). This involves more wonderful walking in the rain. When I get my glasses sorted I go to pick up my inhalers from the pharmacy. Of course, they aren't there. And the shitty doctors surgery is closed so I can't even complain to them about it...until tomorrow.
3 buses later, I'm finally home with glasses fixed but eyes feeling sore again. I go in the kitchen to get my salty water for my eye and decide to wash the rice cooker. As I carry it to the sink, I slip in a puddle, the lid goes flying into to the sink and turns on the tap, the pan flies across the floor dropping rice all over and I land on my wrist and bruise my leg. I also somehow pulled a muscle in my shoulder. Awesome.

Tomorrow I have a long day at work that I don't even want to think about at the moment. Saturday I am going to make a cake for my cousin's 18th. Hopefully that will cheer me up a bit. Then Sunday it's his party at Nandos, that should cheer me up too :-p. I seriously need something good to happen, especially with bloody Valentines Day coming.