: Infected eyes and long walks.

This blog post comes in three parts. =P

Part 1: Infected eyes.

Last Thursday, almost two weeks ago now, my eye started feeling kind of weird. I kept feeling like there was some kind of grit in it, but there was nothing to be found. Without thinking too much about it I kept rubbing my eyes all day, which probably didn't help as much as I had hopes. It probably made things worse, actually. 

When I woke up on Friday, my eye had actually become swollen. Not the eye itself, that is, but everything around it. I still didn't pay too much attention to it, but during the day it just kept getting worse. In the end it was bright red and I could barely keep it open. During the rest of the day and Saturday I tried having some cold and wet paper or washcloth or something on my eye, as it made it feel better. I don't know if it helped anything, or actually made it worse, but it soothed the irritation for a bit.

Looks weird.

On Sunday I had given up trying to use the eye. I just kept it closed the entire day, even when I went to my grandparents for my grandfather's birthday, and it went by without any real problems. Except that I had no depth perception, so whenever I tried to do something that required some kind of finesse, like eating dinner with my relatives, I kept almost-missing the mark. Fun. =P

On Monday I went to the doctor. I had a doctor's appointment that day anyway, so I was thinking I could just get some help while I was there anyway. That didn't quite go as planned as I had somehow written the wrong time in my calender, so I showed up an hour after my appointment. So I had to wait for about half an hour for another doctor to have a look at my eye. Turns out it had become infected somehow. Fortunately, it was a relatively harmless infection. I got some eye drops, and have been using them since. 

On Wednesday my other eye had somehow become infected as well. Not too surprised by that, as the doctor said it was likely to happen, and I could just use the same eye drops on both eyes. Today is the first day that my eye feels like it's completely healed, but I'll still use them at least one more day. I still have no idea why they got infected, though. I had a theory that I had rubbed my eyes while I was cleaning, getting some of the soap or other cleaning agents in my eyes, but I have no idea.

Part 2: Long walks.

Nice, but uninteresting. =P

The last few months, I haven't been doing much exercising of any kind. I've been talking the occasional walk, but nothing near what I did the last half of 2011. It's part of the setback I wrote briefly about a while ago. It's the part that I hadn't turned back around yet. Until now.

On Thursday I decided to go for a walk out of Dokka, towards Odnes and Søndre Land. It's a very nice road, although not very interesting. It allows for quite a long walk, as it consists of several long stretches of straight roads, so in a way I'm almost walking on auto-pilot. Except I'm not. Because of the problems with my feet and legs, I have to pay close attention to exactly how I'm walking, which is another reason why all the long straight roads is a good thing. It allows me to walk quite a lot while focusing mostly on trying to walk correctly.

Almost home!

That first walk, I only went about 2,25km from home before I turned back. When I got home, after walking for 4,5km, I felt that was a bit too short. I could've gone longer. But I didn't want to go back out, so I just figured I'd go longer next time. On Sunday I went for my second walk, turning around at exactly 3km. This time, about half a kilometer before I was home, I felt that I could just keep walking, so I took a rather long detour back home, ending up with a total of 7,6km. Felt good. 

Unfortunately, I forgot to do the stretching exercises my physiotherapist taught me when I got back, so my legs started feeling really stiff after a while. Tried doing them later in the evening, but it didn't have too much effect.

Far away from home. P=

On Monday a friend of mine, Yrjan, invited me to Fitocracy, an exercise-tracking site for gamers, in a way. It allows you to track all your physical activity, and awards you points based on what you do. You level up, get achievements, and complete quests. It's quite fun, actually, and yet another way for me to motivate myself to keep on walking. And maybe find some other ways to exercise as well, I just don't know what yet. Any ideas? =P 

Today I went for yet another walk along that road. I wanted to go even longer this time, if I could. And before I knew it, just 250m further down the road from where I turned around on Sunday, I had moved into the next, uh... Municipality? That's what Google Translate calls it. Anyway. I hadn't seen it on Sunday, as it was just around the next turn. I kept walking past it, turning around at 3,4km. Was gonna turn at 3,5km but I there was an underpass, so I turned before I went down it. I could've gone a detour back home this time as well, but I decided against it. Mostly because I was getting rather hungry. Two big differences about this walk, though; I remembered to bring something to drink, and I stretched as soon as I got home. Possibly as a result, I felt a lot better when I was done.

One last note; I've walked more during these three walks, plus one other, more local, walk on Saturday, than I did during the entire month of February. Actually, just the last two are more than I actually recorded in February. =P 

Part 3: Eqamusic 

I have deleted my music blog, Eqamusic. I don't want to talk too much about this, so the short version; I'm just not into music enough to maintain a blog like that. I hadn't updated the blog since October, and that's not for a lack of trying. I just couldn't find anything interesting to write about there. So, now it's gone. Oh well.