B, BA, BOM Day Nine

Today, I am grateful for modern medical technology.

I awoke at around 3am to a sneezing fit. Twelve in a row. Get up, blew my nose and stammered back to bed. The alarm went off at 4:55am. Reuben started his morning at 5:15am. I was still trying to pry my butt out of the queen bed. I tried opening my eyes. "Glued" shut. My lovely spouse comes in and announces, "I know why you are having so much trouble, north winds are a gusting." (For the plethora of southern California readers, that is our equivalent of the Santa Ana's.) They blow all the pollens, pollution and dust from the north land toward the sea, unlike the delta breezes of a few days past. And play havoc with not only my nose, but my eyes.

They look like I have been drinking for weeks. So, why am I grateful for modern medical technology. Well, since I got the eyes laser-zapped at Pacific Laser Eye Center I now can get up, go and apply a couple of warm compresses and still see. No tough decision "Pain of contacts, or ugly glasses". Just a few minutes of warm water and off I go. No more deciding, do I wear my contacts and sunglasses or the glasses that change. I just wear sunglasses. I can now just go.

What a wonderful feeling.