3 Weeks Home -- 11/22/15

This is the end of my third week home now, and my eye is gradually getting better every single day. We were able to find the cause of the infection. It is a bacteria called pseudomonas. I was lucky because the medicine that I was given in Costa Rica was already treating for pseudomonas, so from the start the infection was being controlled.

 I am now able to sleep too! Instead of taking eye drops every half an hour around the clock (through the night), I am able to get 9 hours of sleep without any medication.  With the results from the tests confirming pseudomonas though, we hyped up the antibiotic that was most effective to the bacteria and took down the others. So now I am on two eye drops every two hours throughout the day and resting at night.

So basically I am on the right track to recovery and with a little more time and help from medicine, the infection should be eliminated and we can then assess the damage to my cornea. The doctors, because of the infection being right in the center of my eye, cannot see clearly any damage, but hopefully whatever scarring that there is can heal with time and my vision will be restored sufficiently. But we don't have to think about that now!

In other news, if you all were wondering, my Spain trip is still on! My vision in my left eye will still probably be healing when I leave, but  I was told that I should not worry. The doctor that I am seeing told me he'll find an eye doctor near where I will be staying and give him or her a full report of me and my status, just in case of an emergency.

So I'm keeping up with my Spanish doing all I can to make sure I am ready for the next part of my year!

There's for an update, I don't have any new pictures but here is a picture of me washing a bull at an integrated animal farm at EARTH University in Costa Rica! #sorustic