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Mar. 25th, 2021 10:25 pmI haven't posed anything here in awhile, in part because life has been limping along from one nothing to the next.
I saw the retinal specialist on Monday. If I had not been scheduled to see him already, I'd have called his office anyway because my eyesight degraded noticeably over the weekend. They tested my vision and took a couple of scans, confirming what I already knew.
The doctor didn't have to tell me that the swelling had returned - it was pretty clear on the scan when he called it up in the treatment room. I told him that it was probably unrelated, but that I had received my first shot of the AZ vaccine on Wednesday. He said that while the shot can lead to inflammation, the swelling in the eye was unrelated. We'd stretched the time between shots to eight weeks to see how the eye would react to it, and the answer was that it would react badly.
I don't think he used quite as much numbing on this last visit, so I twitched a bit when the needle went in. My eye has definitely been a bit more painful than usual in the aftermath, though it's feeling more normal today, so I guess there was no serious damage done. I have an appointment for my next treatment in six weeks. I hope it holds out better this time because I really ... really don't want to go back to monthly injections.
If you have never gone through a procedure that requires regular injections in the eyeball, I don't recommend it. The process is as awful as it sounds.
I made cheddar biscuits for breakfast earlier this week, and I am rather pleased with the way they came out.
I didn't follow a recipe for these, per se. I have a formula that I printed out a couple of years back that gives the ratios for bread products (bread, biscuits, pie crusts, etc). I have made biscuits enough times now that I know the ratios off the top of my head: three parts flours, two parts liquid (I use milk), one part fat (I use butter), a teaspoon of yeast for each 225g of flour, and a bit of salt. Knowing the ratios rather than a recipe means that I can pull out one of the ingredients, see what I have left (hm, 60g of butter left in this stick...) and work from there.
Adding the shredded cheddar to this batch threw off the moisture content a bit, so the dough was in a really awkward place. It was too dry to spoon it out into blobs, but too wet and sticky to roll it out into a sheet and cut squares. I pressed it down and folded it over itself a few times with a dough cutter while I tried to figure out what to do with it. On a whim, I rolled it up into a tube and then cut it into discs with a sharp knife. I put the discs on a baking sheet, pressed them a bit flatter to ensure they cooked through and tossed them in the oven.
They turned out great - and I like the visual result where they almost look like a cross between a biscuit and a danish.
I saw the retinal specialist on Monday. If I had not been scheduled to see him already, I'd have called his office anyway because my eyesight degraded noticeably over the weekend. They tested my vision and took a couple of scans, confirming what I already knew.
The doctor didn't have to tell me that the swelling had returned - it was pretty clear on the scan when he called it up in the treatment room. I told him that it was probably unrelated, but that I had received my first shot of the AZ vaccine on Wednesday. He said that while the shot can lead to inflammation, the swelling in the eye was unrelated. We'd stretched the time between shots to eight weeks to see how the eye would react to it, and the answer was that it would react badly.
I don't think he used quite as much numbing on this last visit, so I twitched a bit when the needle went in. My eye has definitely been a bit more painful than usual in the aftermath, though it's feeling more normal today, so I guess there was no serious damage done. I have an appointment for my next treatment in six weeks. I hope it holds out better this time because I really ... really don't want to go back to monthly injections.
If you have never gone through a procedure that requires regular injections in the eyeball, I don't recommend it. The process is as awful as it sounds.
I made cheddar biscuits for breakfast earlier this week, and I am rather pleased with the way they came out.
I didn't follow a recipe for these, per se. I have a formula that I printed out a couple of years back that gives the ratios for bread products (bread, biscuits, pie crusts, etc). I have made biscuits enough times now that I know the ratios off the top of my head: three parts flours, two parts liquid (I use milk), one part fat (I use butter), a teaspoon of yeast for each 225g of flour, and a bit of salt. Knowing the ratios rather than a recipe means that I can pull out one of the ingredients, see what I have left (hm, 60g of butter left in this stick...) and work from there.
Adding the shredded cheddar to this batch threw off the moisture content a bit, so the dough was in a really awkward place. It was too dry to spoon it out into blobs, but too wet and sticky to roll it out into a sheet and cut squares. I pressed it down and folded it over itself a few times with a dough cutter while I tried to figure out what to do with it. On a whim, I rolled it up into a tube and then cut it into discs with a sharp knife. I put the discs on a baking sheet, pressed them a bit flatter to ensure they cooked through and tossed them in the oven.
They turned out great - and I like the visual result where they almost look like a cross between a biscuit and a danish.
