Tomorrow, I have to have a swab sample taken of the cornea in my right eye.  A blurriness began occurring before Christmas, and I thought maybe I just needed my lens prescription changed.  After two visits to the optometrist, with use of 2 kinds of eye drops in between, she sent me to an ophthamologist. After the first visit, he had me continue with one of the drops, then after the second visit, put me on antiviral medication.  Either the pills helped a little or it is just slowly clearning up on its own, but, there was some improvement, just not enough.  So, after 3 visits, he sent me to a cornea specialist.  I am not looking forward to having my eye swabbed at all, but, hopefully, this will get to the root of the problem. 

In the meantime, I am adjusting my diet as best I can with healthy eye foods, especially those containing lysine. I have been a vegetarian for many years, then added fish and seafood, so was pescatarian, and now have decided that vegan is the best way to go.  I am reading Healing Cancer from the Inside Out, right now, and am really into the RAVE diet.  Everything in this book just reinforces everything that I have believed for years.  It's hard to be different, and I've been ridiculed for my diet choices over the years, but I'm a lot healthier now than I ever was as a child eating the North American meat and potaotes diet.

I started my journey into healthy eating as a teenager.  I started reading the Mother Earth News, and found cookbooks on healthy foods.  All of the people who laughed at me and told me I was "going off the deep end" back then are now plagued with arthritis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, kidney stones, gall bladder problems, etc.  I figure my little eye problem is nothing in comparison.  My allergies are under control, my foot problem (which for want of a better answer they diagnosed as Post Polio Syndrome) has fixed itself (I believe that was through nutrition) and I just feel good and am happy in general.  So, go ahead, and put down my healthy food choices, and we will see who comes out better in the long run.

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be something else." (e e cummings)