eye will survive

I've been tremendously frustrated this week, largely because I'd scheduled for three days of post-op recovery, while it's actually still an ongoing process. The momentum I'd built up on my work has largely dissipated, though I've managed to tidy my study and create a realistic thesis completion schedule.

My eye is healing up well though: the swelling has gone down and the eye has opened up in all its technicolour glory:



Just went to the doctor, because it feels like I have an eyelash permanently poking in my eye: that'll be the stitches. They'll be taking them out next Tuesday, yeuch.

Also got the histology report for the neck lump they removed in September: 4cm x 3cm x 1.5cm of compacted fatty tissue. A spindle cell lipoma. Nice!

The weekend plan is to continue with preparing the ground for an all-out assault on my final two thesis chapters, before starting the writing on Monday. Cycling is scheduled to begin again the weekend after this one, and I want to do between 300-400 miles this month, to get me over 6000 for the year. However, I've had the realisation the past few days that cycling really does have to be curtailed for the first half of next year, while I finish my thesis. Bah!