Patty's epic adventure

  4/13/23 This might be a rough update.  I can barely see what I'm typing, so please forgive all my errors.  We are leaving in the morning for our cruise and will be home on 4/27, late afternoon.  I'm very disappointed that my vision is going to be such an issue on our trip.  My vision has been getting worse since my surgery.  I'm one week out with my left eye, and two weeks out with my right.  My vision should be much better by now, however, now I can barely see to drive properly and would not pass the driving test.  I can no longer read road signs and only drive locally where I know my way around easily.  I cannot help David drive to Dallas tomorrow, nor read anything on the way.  I can't even see Google maps on my phone.  They tested my vision today, along with a lot of other tests, and the tech said not to expect to be able to read the chart very well with my eyes dilated.  I said they're not.  She looked at me and the...

  4/4/23 Three evenings ago, I was working at my desk in my office, and I noticed a dead June bug laying on top of my desk, near the front.  I studied it, but decide it was dead and upside down.  Ok, no cause for alarm.  No worries about a June bug flying into my hair.  They're the stupidest bugs on the planet and I've had plenty land there, so this could be a real issue.  I'm satisfied it's dead, and resolve to pick it up and toss it into the garbage as soon as I'm finished with my task at hand.  However, I continue to take peeks at it over the next hour or so, just to ensure it hasn't moved, because I don't trust it.  I keep worrying about that stupid bug rolling back over and taking wing.  It's horrible when they land in your hair - especially hair like mine.  Thick and curly.  They entangle themselves and just go in deeper and deeper.  It's just plain creepy.  At one point, I was obsessed with that bug, but never got t...