Grave's Disease

Sleeping on one side and double-vision

Posted 2003-01-02 (木) 午前4:29 by terra

The experience one gets from sleeping on one side of the face the whole night is a disconcerting albeit temporary case of double-vision when one wakes up. This is attributed to the slight misalignment of the eye. However, the body usually recognises this problem and restores balance in a blink of an eye, literally - I apologise for the pun. A similar but worse situation is when that double vision occurs not from two eyes out-of-sync but in one eye alone, no thanks to the slight swelling of eye tissue, being a result of Grave’s Disease. Sadly to say, this condition isn’t as temporary as the first case mentioned and I can attest to this from personal experience. You know the line from the Book of Corinthians that says that as we grow up we see through a glass darkly? Well I see now not just darkly (at least that’s what I think) but doubly too (ouch that was so not funny). Thankfully, only one eye is afflicted so with both eyes I can still read and see things almost the way they should be seen.

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Tags: Corinthians, eye, Grave's Disease, Hong Kong, hyperthyroid, vision, Wong Kar Wai

Grave's Disease

Posted 2002-08-15 (木) 午前1:58 by terra

First blog of this month. Actually I’ve got nothing really much to say, except that I’ve been rather busy since school has started. As of last week, I’ve been diagnosed with Grave’s Disease which causes hyper-thyroidism, which explains my weight loss in the month of May (no thanks to CS2103, that is why I will eternally hate that subject). I’m under medication now. Anyway, I’ll back off from the depressing stuff a bit for now. As you can see, my site has been redesigned. Yay. Began renovating a week ago, have been gradually adding bits of graphics to the layout whenever a good idea comes to mind, so the site’s getting quite fleshed out.

So, I guess it’s pretty late now. Going to zzzzzzzzz…