I got antibiotics from my doctor to help to clear up the sty on my eye that was threatening to take over my face. After 24 hours, there was a significant difference and my vision began to clear. I still need to get new specs for reading but at least my distance is improving and I feel such relief.

I am continuing with the heat pack twice a day and this is also helping to reduce the swelling combined with the wipes to clean the eyelids. Not a pleasant process but it seems to be helping with the dry eyes at night, which has been plaguing me for some time.

My manager said to me at the end of last week that my 6 month probation will be coming to its conclusion next week, what would I like to do? Stay or go? I hesitated ever so slightly but I said that I would like to stay and if it was possible to go part time, then that would be great. He said he needs someone here 5 days a week so that was not an option, but he never confirmed whether I would still be here.

Therefore, for the next week I will have to buy a few supplies just in case I have to leave the building and return to a life of long and lazy breakfasts followed by long lunches. The only thing I would not like having to deal with is the bureaucracy, having to deal with the brew and the useless job agencies. However, I might have an answer to that problem. A friend of mine volunteers 15 hours a week and is left alone by the powers that be and if I can do the same I would be quite happy to sit on the brew for a while, although I would miss the money. I guess I would also miss some of the crack that goes on at work, and there’s a few nice folk there too.

My long weekend has also arrived and I have many things to do. I really need to go for a run on the bike, but I will stay local because the passenger window in the car is not getting fixed until Monday so I don’t really want to park and leave the car in case she ain’t there when I return.

I stopped writing this on Friday, today is Sunday, and I did not go out on the bike but I did go for a walk instead. Had a very lazy morning and day so far, tomorrow I will do many things.

My eyes seem to be worse today, I just can’t figure it out. I guess the sty puts pressure on my eye and as it reduces it will change shape and the pressure on my eye is reduced and so this is causing the fluctuation in my clarity. Using the computer and reading my phone is not easy so I’m hoping that my eyes settle down so that I can get new reading specs.

I will see Dr Phuc on Thursday morning once more, a check up to see how everything is going and then hopefully I’ll get back to me optician to get new specs. I’ll also know by the end of the week if I still have a job………….