Velociworld

Life Intrudes...

I haven't posted much recently for a variety of reasons, all having to do with More Important Missions than blogging.

First, my sister has been staying with me for the last few months. My two brothers and other sister (and their respective significant others) came for a visit this weekend to assist in relocating her to a new apartment. Mission accomplished, things look rosy, and it was wonderful having us all together for the first time in years. It's nice to compare dysfunctions in a team environment, although I always hate winning that game.

Second, and of greater immediate import, my younger daughter has been suffering from an extremely nasty and severely painful eye infection, one acanthamoeba keratitis, an amoebic infection that attacks the subsurface of the cornea.

Fortunately it was detected early, and she is responding quite well to her treatment regimen, which will continue for 3 to 6 more months. Misdiagnosis (it resembles herpes), mistreatment (for ordinary bacterial infection), or even non-response to proper treatment results in corneal transplant or eye loss, therefore The Bride and I have been quite absorbed of late.

Skeeter has been incredible through some heartbreaking pain in the early going, and as treatment appears successful thus far, I can write about it with sanguine prospect. As to when I resume anything like a normal schedule elsewhere is still a ponderable.

Soon, perhaps.