My new favorite chair. Yes, I assembled it myself.
The living room shot #1.
The living room shot #2.
My bedroom: where absolutely no magic happens, but it’s still magical.
Bedroom shot #2.
Bedroom shot #3.
Sunrise: I’ll enjoy hundreds more of these as time passes–if it’s the Lord’s will.
I have an accent rug to get for my living room, two more bar stools, and two throw pillow inserts, and I’ll be completely done.
I can’t explain how happy I am to be in this space. I am prayerful that every day spent here will be a blessing I will forever remember and include in future testimonies.
Oh, Jernee also loves my chair. It’s probably hers now if I’m being totally honest.
The Little Thief has stolen my favorite spot.
May the upcoming week grant you peace, love, understanding, joy, and answered prayers.
I’m off today. Jernee has a vet visit and I have two returns to take to the UPS Store, and then, I will relax. I will truly relax.
A little ray of sunshine before my keratoconus/scleral contacts follow-up|Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
follow-up on cornea scarring and hazing, and good news to that; no new scarring. no new hazing.
however …
my corneas have gotten steeper in each eye, even after wearing the recommended scleral contacts since last November.
my vision is running away from me, and I am chasing after it trying to pull it back to me. trying to love it again; harder & heavier.
unfortunately …
it is doing what it wants to do and my ophthalmologist wants to pursue a procedure called “Collagen Cross-linking“ and I do not have any more passion to give this man of expertise regarding my care.
I nod and listen, and I understand everything he says, yet I tell him, “I would much rather continue to wear my scleral contacts until November of this year. That would be one full year. Let’s reassess at that time.”
Hesitant, he leans toward my line of thinking, and we schedule another appointment.
I toggle between him and my optometrist; they work on my eye care in-tandem. I will see her in May. I hope she’ll have better news for me, and even if she doesn’t, I have given this to God.
I will not stress over it. I will not lend it my heart. I will not spiral down into unshakeable pity.
keratoconus, you will not, and I put emphasis on “NOT” steal my joy. You can’t have it.
**The visit on Thursday, April 13, 2023, with the ophthalmologist did not provide the details I thought it would. The corneas are getting steeper which means that eventually, my vision could keep getting even more blurry.
The ophthalmologist recommended a procedure called (Corneal) Collagen Cross-linking which would be performed out at Duke University in Durham, and I pretty much pumped the brakes on that idea and informed him that I would much rather continue to wear my scleral contacts until at least the middle of this November which would be a full year.
We are going to reassess on November 21st of this year and I will meet with his colleague at that time, but I also have an appointment with my optometrist in May, so I am going to get her opinion on this, too. So that’s where we are now. I was not released from his care due to these recent changes.
This is for God to handle. My gut started speaking to me as soon as my ophthalmologist began explaining everything about the next steps. Those are NOT my next steps. We’ll see what May reveals & then what November of this year further reveals before I begin letting surgeons/specialists/doctors surgically enhance (or botch up) my vision.
And I just want to say, my body is feeling it, and I’m sure, will be feeling it well into the night and most of this coming week, but it was so worth it!
My skates. I’ve named them, “Salt & Pepa”. I sure did. IYKYK.
I intend to make this a weekly thing; retraining my body toward skating and picking up another source of exercise.
I enjoyed every moment of it, and I am so happy I shook off the fear and jumped back into something I truly love.
I may be getting older, but I won’t let aging sideline me!
A Cornered Gurl 
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