Well, just got home from the emergency room.

This morning I noticed my vision was not so great, but it wasn't terrible. You know how you usually have poor vision when you wake up, but after rubbing your eyes everything pops back to normal? That didn't happen this morning.

In fact, it got progressively worse. As I was sitting at my computer at work today, I couldn't even read the text. WITH glasses. It was that bad. I had to squint and get close to the monitor (less than half an inch away) to read the text.

As it got closer to noon time it was progressively worse. I had double vision that I couldn't get rid of. Usually I can squint a bit with just a tiny teensy eensy bit of effort to get rid of it. Now it required a lot. And when I closed my eyes enough to get rid of it they weren't open enough to see.

In the emergency room my blood pressure was 156 / 80 when I first arrived. A couple hours later 139 / 80. So, nothing too SUPER huge to worry about there. Just nerves and stress due to this week. The doc said nothing's wrong with my brain, but I should see an ophthalmologist to get things checked out, just in case. I agreed.

Just got home from the emergency room about 5 minutes ago. Oy. My vision has significantly improved (almost back to normal) but my eyes are swelled up. Weird. I have an eye infection due to the illness I just had.

And this just HAS to happen when I'm handed a supremely awesome project to work on at work. I certainly hope they don't think I can't handle it because of this. :(

I don't think I can deal with anymore bad luck setbacks in my career.