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| It's Gustaf Adolf's Day in Sweden today and I learned about it when our boss treated us to Gustaf Adolf's pastries for coffee. Gustaf Adolf is the Swedish king that founded the city of Gothenburg in 1621 and on November 6 th we are celebrating his death by eating a pastry commonly known as Napoleon pastry but today decorated with the king's portrait in chocolate and hence called Gustaf Adolf's pastry. Any questions? Well, I guess the bakers craft is inventing lots of 'holidays' to increase sales, as we just had the opportunity to celebrate the cinnemon bun day on October 4th  What else is going on? I've been pretty sick with the flu for at least a week now. Been sleeping basically through the whole weekend and am now feeling ok again, but my forehead is still really hurting. I've been a tad scared that my eye could get infected as well, but I hope *knock on wood* it's ok. Fall is soon turning into winter here up North and the workload in the office is just not getting any smaller. Therefore the trip to Budapest will unfortunately not be feasable, as you really want to have more than 1 day in that city. I checked out different direct flight possibilities from Gothenburg and then my mind got hooked on Tallinn, as it is a smaller town with a pretty medieval center that can be explored in just 1,5 days. I checked the fares and of course they have to be really high during the Adventtime  . I found a cute little Spa hotel in the middle of the city that offers a great autumn package, and we are now debating about going in two weeks from now already; will have to check tomorrow if it will work out that way. I think it would be really fun to see Tallinn, if nothing else it would be the furthest East I've ever been! It's also time to book our trip to Germany for Christmas, gonna get that done tomorrow as well! We will be going for 9 days since we want to spend New Years Eve in Gothenburg this year! Julie is going to host a party and that should be a lot of fun! Oh man, Christmas is just 6 weeks away, where did all the time go? But actually it's good because I really miss my family and can't wait to see them soon! | | |
| So, it's final. On my last control visit at the eyedoctors they stated that my eyesight won't improve much anymore. It was like a slap in the face, like if somebody pulled a carpet away under my feet. I will have to live with this situation now for the rest of my life. And what comes with it, is the fear that something will happen to the other eye as well. Chances increase dramatically after you had it on one side and they already lasered to prevent that from happening. I really need to try to focus on something else, so that the fear won't take over my life, while still being very observant to go to the ER at the very first symptoms. I bought some tablets and vitamins at the pharmacy that might or might not help, hopefully they will at least strengthen the other eye. Hope is dying last! That being said I try to live my life as normal as possible. Parties are a good way to get your mind off something, and there were a lot of them during the last weeks. The first one in the row was the rather sad occasion of Gill and Carls farewell. Sad as it is, everything seems to happen for a reason, and in their case the reason might have been that Gill could land a much more interesting job with a much nicer boss on the channel island of Guernsey. So they are really excited about the move there and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully everything will work out to the best. I will miss them a lot around here though. The day after we had our annual crayfish party with the hats, the booze, the singing and all the fun that comes with it. Oh I think I forgot to mention the crayfish  Good times!!! 
Last Saturday it was already time to get out the scary costumes for our Helloween Party at Julies place! It was a fun night and Julie and Dan were great hosts! 
We had stayed overnight at their place and had a nice breakfast together on Sunday morning. Back at home we didn't do much at all anymore, just cleaned the house a bit, took care of the huge pile of ironing and then basically hung out on the couch. The following weekend will be dedicated to our homeimprovement projects again, so that we can move our bedroom upstairs soon. Seems like life is just revolving around food and drinks at the moment, as we also had 3 great nights out at an Italian, a Polish and a Swedish posh restaurant during the last couple of weeks | | |
| So, here we are, surgery done. Compared to the two first ones in the beginning of the year this one was really minor and I'm already feeling pretty ok again. When Jörgen and I got there we were without any longer waiting lead into a big ward, which was separated into lot's of small compartments by curtains . That's how far Jörgen was allowed to follow. They really prepared 3 patients at he same time and everything resembled pretty much an assembly line principle. I was given a shirt, a cap and plastic bags to put over my shoes. My eye was cleaned with several pretty aggressive liquids, I was given drops to enlarge my pupil, a sedative pill and upon Jörgens request they also set a needle in my arm to be able to eventually give me more tranquillizers in case I would get too tense. After having been given anaesthetic eyedrops, I was basically ready for the surgery. I had been really afraid of being awake and seeing everything, but the lamp was giving such a strong light right into the eye that that wasn't the case. Another fear of mine was that I might need to move, cough or sneeze while the surgeon was in the process of cutting in my eye, but he said as long as I'd warn him so that he can remove all intruments off my eye it'll be ok. Luckily I never had to ask him. During the process of the surgery my puls was going up to 119 or 190 (?), I felt my blood rush through every body part, but the nurse gave me her hand to hold, which made me a bit calmer. They never gave me any additional sedative. 20 minutes later I stumbled back to my compartment, very shaky and unsteady on my legs. I was given some juice and sandwiches and after I had calmed down we could go home. After the anaesthetic drops lost effect I got a pretty bad eye- and headache but also that is already gone today. Only sharp light is still hurting . I'm supposed to see blurry for a few days but I can already make out that I can see slightly better. Unfortunately also the tissue around the lens was affected by the cataract and probably has to be lasered when the eye has healed. So more waiting, more insecurity but hopefully my vision will get better in the end! On Monday I can already go back to work if I don't get an infection. Hopefully I won't!!! And next Friday I have my first controll visit, then I will find out more. | | |
| I just got a call from the hospital, that they on short notice have gotten a free slot to operate me this Thursday morning! I know I should be relieved to finally get it out of the way, but mostly I'm nervous and quite shaky. Have to organize quite a few things at work now... I'm scared!!! | | |
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