Stay with me with this, it's a big long winded and somewhat boring/confusing...
Picture yourself on a cruise.. a P&O Cruise, laying on a deck chair, the sun is shining, you can hear the faint sound of waves of the ocean lapping on the side of the boat and the ice clinking in your lemon, lime and bitters. You can see nothing but ocean.
Wish it was you? Yeah.. Me to.
Here's the reality.
This is the holiday I was having before facing surgery for cervical cancer four days after I got back to Sydney. This is the holiday I needed so I could chill out after a stressful few years at work. This is the holiday before I started major renovations on my house when I got back.
On a P&O cruise with a head cold, fortunately, no sea sickness. Battled with headaches and annoying cough for more or less the whole 10 nights. Poor loving sister for having to share a cabin with me. Stressing out about surgery on the 19th July and secretly wishing I had taken more time off work to have some "me" time.
Get back to Sydney on the 15th July. Cervical Op on the 19th. Somewhere between those dates I lost 90% of my vision in my right eye, experiencing headache around the eye socket and pressure behind the eye. Everything was in a fog on my right hand side. Thinking it was stress, I pretty much ignored it and carried on regardless.
Eventually it got the better of me, and I went to see my GP.. Just my luck, they are closed for a system upgrade. So off to a neighbouring suburb I go to see another GP who informs me that I have a sinus infection behind the eye and to take a course of antibiotics and "you'll be right". Gut instinct told me to get a second opinion, so the next day I finally got in to see my own GP. She said that GP no.1 could be right or it could be something more sinister and referred me to an Ophthalmologist (eye specialist) the very next day.
Wow, I didn't realise how draining it would be to write about this. *deep breath*.
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