Spring is in the Air!

First off I will update you all on my eye...
It opens every once and a while now, but for the most part it likes to stay closed. We got the results back from the MRI and they were normal :D So now we just have to figure out what's wrong...

I don't think I have ever been so excited for spring in my entire life! I was so sick of snow, that to celebrate the first day of spring we played outside! A group of us got on our shorts and tennis shoes and went down to Smith Park and played fun games. We played ultimate frisbee until Mike broke it :( but have no fear we played some soccer also! What's that I hear... kickball?! That's right we played all these fun games. It was nice to get out and do something again without freezing to death. It was 60 out... how amazing!



Sorry the pictures aren't the greatest... they're from my phone. We all forgot our cameras!

MRI

Alright here's a short update for those of you who are wondering what's going on. This Thursday I will be headed to Idaho Falls and having a brain MRI done. This will hopefully start to give us more information as to what it going on with me and my crazy self. So please keep me and my doctors in your prayers. I seem to have everyone puzzled as to what I could have, or couldn't have. At this point, I'm hoping and praying it's not a tumor of any sort.
Anyway I'm headed to bed... this thing drains all my energy. I seem to be sleeping ALL the time now! Night :D

3rd Nerve Palsy

Definition
Third nerve palsy describes a condition involving the third cranial nerve (also called the oculomotor nerve), which is responsible for innervating some of the muscles responsible for eye movement.
Description
Third nerve palsy results in an inability to move the eye normally in all directions. Injury to the third nerve can occur anywhere along its path, from where it originates within the brain to where it innervates the muscles that move the eyeball. Third nerve palsy prevents the proper functioning of the medial, superior, and inferior recti, and inferior oblique muscles. As a result, the eye cannot move up, down, or in. When at rest, the eye tends to look down and to the side, due to an inequality of muscle functioning. The muscle responsible for keeping the upper eyelid open (levator palpebrae superioris) is also affected, resulting in a drooping upper eyelid (ptosis).
Causes
A wide variety of conditions can result in third nerve palsy, including pressure and damage from tumors; blocked arteries or aneurysms leading to oxygen deprivation of nerves; meningitis; vascular complications of diabetes or high blood pressure; complications of migraine headaches; traumatic injury; birth injury; congenital defects; and conditions that strip nerve fibers of their myelin coating, resulting in slowed nervous transmission.


That's just a little on 3rd Nerve Palsy... here's an update on me now!

Anyway I went to another doctor today and he said that the 3rd nerve is not damaged, which controls the eyelid and eye, however it is weakened. I was told to put cold compacts on it along with taking ibuprofen. If things don't get better within a week he said to go back and that he would do an MRI. He also said if things get worse or if I start feeling a tingling sensation also to return because it could be 3rd nerve palsy!

I'm hoping things get better :D

Another "great day" here at BYU 'EYE'-daho

So I woke up today hardly able to move from the pain of my ulcers acting up once again. So I took my medicines and really didn't eat much since that doesn't help. However I went to eat some bread since that doesn't really bother it, and helps a little. Well my bread was bad... :( and made me really sad. After everyone got home from church this girl came over and had heard I wasn't feeling good, and had made me some homemade bread! It's very yummy by the way, and hit the spot. So I called mom to tell her about it because it made my day. While sitting there Naomi and I noticed that in literally in a minute my eye had started to swell. Needless to say my eye is now swollen shut again to add to the pain I'm in. Today just isn't my day it seems. Hopefully things get better real soon... I have a busy week of school.
Here's what it looks like at the moment, but I don't think it does it justice.