Disease sucks

Man, I'd like nothing more than to eradicate disease.

My left eye is all red and producing tons of gunk. And my vision out of that eye is cloudy compared to my right one. It could be an inocuous irritation because my eye didn't like my contact lens today.

Or it could be conjunctivitis, which is highly contagious. My niece woke up with that on Saturday morning while she was staying at my place. But she's been gone since Sunday, and I just started experiencing these symptoms a couple hours ago, so I can't blame her.

Whether this is conjunctivitis or not, this is just plain uncomfortable. Undesirable.

I will be going home soon to take out my contact lenses. I will throw both away; they're one-month disposables anyway, and it was time to get rid of them. I'll see how long it takes for my left eye to improve before I put in another contact lens.

In the meantime, I'll just go without vision because I don't have a backup pair of glasses anymore. I think my only pair of glasses slipped out of my pocket on a bus, just days after I got these contacts. Apparently, the universe didn't want me to have a backup.

Just called in sick to Okra's, where I would have played a solo piano gig tonight. Given the circumstances, the bartender advised me to stay home and take it easy. Sucks, because I was going to try some new stuff out tonight.

This silly little eye condition of mine is stupid enough, but some diseases are terminal. A dear aunt of mine living up in Pennsylvania has three to six months left to enjoy, thanks to a newly diagnosed case of liver cancer. I just got word about that last Friday night. She found out a day or two earlier.

So, I want to visit her. Unless I scratch things off my personal calendar, I won't be able to take the two-hour trip to see her for any meaningful length of time until late July!

I wanted gigs, so I joined more than one band. Now between that and all the other things I do, I have so many things occupying my time on the weekends that I can't even slip away for family. How pitiful is that!

Without disease, life would still end at some point, but life would be more enjoyable. Also, I certainly wouldn't be compiling disease-related fact sheets at work. I'd be doing something else.