Over a year later...

Wow, I've really been on the ball with this blogging thing. My last post was in April last year!  Here's a few pictures that I've taken since then:

 Tulips

 Diesel

 Pond at the Waukon park

Easter 

Khloe snuggling on Austin's neck 

 Moon

Diesel licking crumbs off the bottom of the dog food bag 

A neat poster made for one of my clients

Stupid snow!!!

It's not supposed to snow in April!!

Good thing I haven't planted my daffodils outside yet.

2011 Flooding

This is at the last area you can pull into from the road between the Lansing bridge and Wisconsin

This is in Prairie Du Chien trying to get to the Villa Louis

This is right when you come into McGregor from Marquette

Another update

I never posted after I had surgery on March 31st. Well, everything went great! My eye didn't hurt at all after surgery, but my throat was very raw from the breathing tube during surgery. I only took one of my pain pills and that was just to make sure I didn't wake up in pain in the middle of the first night.

Here I am with my stitches

Now my stitches are out and I don't have much of a scar!

I think the redness will go away once I get the tube out exactly a month from today.  :)

Eye update

I've been feeling much better since my eye drained on Tuesday, March 15th. I went in for an appointment that day & they put me on stronger antibiotics. I was on those for 10 days & saw a surgeon for a surgical evaluation on Thursday of last week. They took pictures of it to use as an example for other optometrists!  I will be having surgery on Thursday this week to fix the problem. At least it's an outpatient surgery.  The surgeon said that the tube that runs from the tear duct and drains into the throat will not reopen once it's been blocked so severely. She will make a new place for my tear duct (lacrimal sac) to drain across and into my nose. She told me that if I did not fix it now it would definitely come back again & again. She didn't really say how I could have gotten this, just that I had some kind of aggressive bacteria that somehow got in there.

Here's me now

(the color's a little off since I took it with the lights on instead of sunlight)