Updates on Everyone here...

[Karen]

Laura, check your monitor - most computer monitors have a little button on them somewhere that lets you turn down the brightness - that might help you use the computer more. Do sunglasses help at all?

[Abby&Buddy'sMom]

Thats what I was thinking too. Maybe a pair of lightly shaded sunglasses would help you see the screen easier.

[Freedom]

You are missed, Laura. Thank you for taking the time to post this update. Sure hope it didn't do you in, start a headache going.

Look at Caramella, a grand lady cat now! Aw . . . loved seeing her with her "baby scale."

And that bed is the purrfect height for the window, at least it seems so from the photos! Love the first cover you had on it, the blue flower pattern with the rose in the center. How nice that Amy can get up on there!

Sorry to read about Lady Boo and the ear / tumor issue. I DO remember you commented once that you thought she was going deaf.

Keeping all of you in my prayers.

[caseysmom]

I am so sorry to hear about everything your going through. You are missed here.

[cassiesmom]

Big, big prayers for Kitty Boo and for her meowmie! I missed you!

Aww, sweet Amy... excellent job of finding a new place to sleep! Giz, mmwah I kiss your outstretched paw! and Caramella- you are a lot bigger but definitely no less beau-mew-tiful! Kisses for Samantha too.

[Laura's Babies]

I do wear dark glasses and a baseball cap when I go in the stores to help with the light, then I get eye strain because the dark glasses make things to dark to see properly..

I have tried many thing with the computer monitor, on this one I can change the background color to black but the writing is a odd blue color that makes it hard to read...so I get eye strain.. Right now I am trying a sheet of that window darkening stuff just laid across the monitor and it helps but not enough..

The problem is not just with the glare and bright lights but the eyes.. The MAV makes your vision go wacky, in and out, blurry and then good, you never know... I have been to the eye doctor early into all this thinking it was a vision/eye problem and I have seen him twice and it is not my eyes, it is the MAV causing the problems.. The medication will help if and when we can find the right one and the right dose (I hear) but that is trial and error. Found one that worked great with the vision, it only worked for 3 weeks then stopped working..

You wouldn't believe how people stare at a old lady wearing a baseball cap and dark glasses inside the stores and in public places... I hate wearing caps too, never did like wearing hats but you have to do what ever helps... That glare is like a complete system overload and throws everything out of wack so I stagger and bump into walls and stuff... downright funny! Standing still I can get motion sickness of all things... This has been going on since October and seems to be getting worse as time does on. I wouldn't believe any of this if I wasn't living it every day!

[Karen]

Oh, Laura, it's spring - get yourself a great big spring/summer bonnet, and then let 'em stare!

[Freckles]

So Laura, you now have two repurposed children beds?
So sorry for your trial.