Category Archives: eye update

thankful saturday

By tracie | Published: March 12, 2011

Thankful for my mommy who joined me for one of my treatments and also challenged me to a game of chess … it’s been years!  She took the first game and the second would’ve been mine if I hadn’t started chatting … darn me!  :) :: subscribe to {tsj} photography :: join me on twitter [...]

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it’s back …

By tracie | Published: March 8, 2011

Optic Neuritis that is.  It’s back in my other eye.  It started Sunday after church … vision loss.  Not so much pain {thank goodness!}, but things are pretty blurry outta my right eye. And now I gotta go back for IV steroid treatments … asap.  As the longer I wait, the more permanent the damage [...]

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hurray for full doses!

By tracie | Published: September 17, 2009

I so struggle with thinking I’m complaining by telling people what’s going on with me … but in recognition of a couple different things, I thought I’d give an update with the latest … First of all, tonight I’ll take my first full dose of medicine … hurray for full doses!  :) So far, the [...]

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struggles & random thoughts

By tracie | Published: August 27, 2009

A few people have been asking how I’m doing and if the treatment is working … clearing my symptoms. It’s not.  Not yet.  I still have hope though … My vision has been getting worse.  Blurry at times, but my reading vision is mostly being affected.  I had a follow up with an optometrist and [...]

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ouch!

By tracie | Published: August 14, 2009

Alternate titles: what the heck! help please needles hurt give me a break! i don’t like shots my crazy life stop the world, i wanna get off!  {my personal fav!} I was in full on mother-of-the-year mode the other day.  Complete with a crazy threat of leaving the baby in the car while we went [...]

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