The Great Sick Week of 2012

Hey everyone. We're just going to make a clean break with the whole week. See you Monday. Should be put back together by then.

One More Day

Bear with me for one more day. Three out of the four people in my house have some kind of bug or other. It's no fun.

Should be back on track tomorrow, though.

Sick Days

Never in all my years of blogging have I had a story with so many interruptions. I'm currently fighting the stomach bug that's going around. I hope to be up and posting tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.

Taco Hell Drive Thru Part 2-6

Taco Hell Drive Thru Part 2-5

I don't want to leave you all hanging here over the weekend. So come back tomorrow, we'll do a special Saturday edition because of the two days missed this week.

Taco Hell Drive Thru Part 2-4

Eyeball Massacre!

Okay, so my appointment this morning was a screening to see if I was a good candidate for LASIK surgery. My eyes have been bad my entire life--really, really bad. I've worn glasses since third grade, contacts for years, etc. I've wanted LASIK for as long as I can remember.

So I set up this appointment at the high-tech Moran Institute at the University of Utah. I thought the screening would be a five minute sit-down talk with an eye doc. Boy, was I wrong. They tortured my eyeballs for three and a half hours! EYE carumba! (Get it? EYE...never mind) I stared deeply into at least twelve laser beams, had yellow goo dripped into my eyes, stared up, stared down, etc. They did NOT use the worst machine--that wicked thing that shoots the puff of air into your eye. So, at least there's that. But they used everything else.

And guess what? I DON'T qualify for LASIK. The doctor said my corneas are too thin. According to him, LASIK is "Out of the question!" I do qualify for super-awesome corneal implants--which I would totally get, if they weren't, ulp, $4,000 per eyeball. (by my math, that's over $12,000 total!)

So I'll be wearing my glasses and contacts for a few more years, until the price drops.

My eyes were so blitzed that I had to drive home with crazy dark glasses. When I got home and looked in the mirror, they looked like this:

The light on my face is bright afternoon sun. That's some crazy dilation.

Needless to say, I don't want ANY extra staring at the screen time today. So you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the next part of the Taco story.

Late Post today

I will have a post up today--just later on in the day. I've got an early morning appointment that's messing my schedule up. Watch for the update this afternoon/evening!