I feel bad for writing about my mom the way I did a couple of posts down. We got along really well today.

I just realized I have an eye appointment coming up sometime this year and he’ll probably recommend me for cataract surgery in my right eye since I can’t see out of it anymore. It’s like there’s a blob of petroleum jelly over my eye and I’m trying to see through it. My problem is that all my glasses will become obsolete because in that surgery, they put a new lense on the eye which corrects the vision. That’s great, but I’ll have to get new glasses and my favorite glasses, my $300 Silhouettes, will be useless and the price of Silhouettes like the ones I’ve had for over a decade have gone up to $500+. What good is it to be able to see out of one eye and not the other? That’s where I’m at now! I stilll have to have glasses after that. Having one good eye is pointless. I know that sounds whiny but that’s how I see it. No pun intended.

I had a nap in my chair and woke up feeling weird again. I took my medication earlier, I did not forget. Anyhoo it didn’t last very long but gave me a scare.

Oscar had his rabies shot. I always wondered how those vaccines work. Isn’t rabies a prion disease? Or am I totally off mark. O_o I don’t understand how a vaccine works against prions. Have patience with me, I’m not that bright haha.…. Okay Looked it up, it’s not a prion disease, but an RNA virus. I thought since rabies is similar to mad cow disease that it was also prion based. I learned a thing today! I also learned just now that CWS (chronic wasting disease aka zombie deer disease) is a prion disease and that is fucking horrifying. Currently it’s seen here in the US (and Canada I assume) mostly in deer and moose I think, but it’s feared it could make a jump to humans, mainly because people eat a lot of deer meat. Especially in places, like here, where there’s tons of people who hunt for their food. That REALLY freaks me out. There’s no cure or vaccine. I don’t think there’s even a lot known about it, other than it being terrifying. Prions are one of the scariest things ever. Try not to read too much about them. It’ll scare the hell out of anyone.

Don’t ask why I’m babbling on about horrible diseases. I just write about whatever pops in my head.

Listening to: The Ramones – Pet Sematary