Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Scary Health Update”.
Yo Jonathan, here it’s been a minute. It’S been a long four weeks and I didn’t want to make this video at the low point of everything. Typically, if I’m sick or something’s, not right or I’m not feeling great I’d, much rather not talk about it. Put my head down and push through and move on to the next, but in this case things just got a little more serious in no way shape or form. Is this meant to be a poor me, video or anything like that? More so for anyone that’s reached out for those who are asking Hey, where’s the iPhone 14 coverage for Brands, it’s more of a hey.
This is what happened and why it’s been radio silent. The condensed version is I’ve been dealing with shingles for the past month plus, and I thought it seemed like I caught it early enough and had it on my head and above my eye and on my face. But I was able to get on antivirals for about two weeks and things seemed like they were on the mend and heading in the right direction and then kind of just took a Twist the Friday before Labor Day. I noticed some blur in my eye and didn’t really think too much of it.
It was kind of their Saturday as well, but then Sunday, the day before Labor Day, I woke up, and it was just like straight blur, like someone slapped Vaseline over my entire right eye, which freaked me out to make things more challenging the day before Labor Day Made things just tremendously harder trying to get in touch or to get seen by anybody? Fortunately, I was able to find an eye doctor and get in and get checked out, but the initial diagnosis was pretty Grim. It was pretty much just a straight. You have a pretty substantial defect over the middle of your cornea, which is probably causing that blur so internally, I’m freaking out thinking why how things were fine a few days ago – and I think the more terrifying part was the assessment that there’s a good chance that You’Re, just gon na have to live with this forever. So I think that kind of just shook me upside down for a minute, and I think the uncertainty was probably the scariest part to where it’s not like.
Hey something’s wrong. If you do this, or if you wait this long, things are going to get better, it was just such a. This is how it is and there’s a really good chance that it’s going to stay this way.
The silver lining of that day, I think, was being able to get that additional dose of antivirals and, in this case, an antiviral gel for the eye, because the nightmare Point Beyond just all that already is that things could get even worse. Ultimately, what ended up happening is shingles, got into the eye and ended up creating a lesion or wound that was multiple layers deep into the cornea. So the first uphill battle was one just trying to get things to even start healing the tricky part.
There is healing. Also means scarring, which is what we don’t want in this case, because if it scars over that’s where you run into the risk of having to deal with it for the rest of your life. I think the toughest part of this is just the mental aspect, because one it’s something that is just constantly present in your everyday, every second of every waking moment to where it’s just there front and center, and you can’t escape it and then at the same time, It’S like you’re, not supposed to stress out or worry or scared, because that’s gon na aggravate things and push them in the Direction.
You don’t want to go so trying to stay, calm and positive, I think, was probably the biggest challenge for me. I was actually really excited to get Tech videos out more consistently. I obviously took a giant step back to get things where they are now in terms of the music side of things, but I was ultimately content fulfilled happy there and really was just excited at the idea of things going full circle from that into Tech, and then Life was like nah dude.
You got to sit down ties. The KK was also right smack in the middle of the iPhone 14 event. So I was definitely sad to not be covering. I didn’t even watch the event, but at the same time it’s also a giant Shake in a perspective shift of hey, maybe the stuff that we stress about on The Daily. Isn’T that big of a deal compared to things like health, so from there I kind of just shut everything down and had to just really relentlessly go at trying everything I possibly could do to get to that next step? At this point the inflammation is down. It hasn’t spread or got worse, which is great. The blur is still there, which is frustrating, and I think the byproduct of that is because, even though one eye is fine, it makes it so like they’re, not talking to each other and there’s moments where it just seems like nothing is in Focus, which is probably The most challenging part physically and mentally, as frustrating as that is at least it is a step in the right direction because it has started to heal that at least opens up the next chance of integrating steroid eye drops which are supposed to combat the healing. In a way where it’s supposed to minimize the scarring and ultimately help minimize that blur, so that’s kind of where I’m at right now by no means out of the woods, but also in much better spirits than I was because that initial assessment really really just freaked Me out, and from here on out, you know, I think the thing is is I want to make videos and it’s not necessarily from a place of feeling the pressure of having to make videos. I just internally really want to make videos at the same time and I’ve been excited with tech, and I’ve been excited to share that so just wanted to give a heads up on what’s been going on what to expect. Hopefully, you should see videos out of me and I think you can expect a range of things I just want to cover things. I’M excited about things that I’m catching up on, because I’ve been gone for a minute, but ultimately just wanted to give an update, say hey this is what’s going on. I am excited to be back as challenging as this is.
I’M also optimistic to be back. So, thank you guys, as always for supporting, if you guys want to help out the channel feel free to use that super thanks button or honestly just go watch the video I did on spatial audio Dolby Atmos. That setup, which I was really proud of and honestly that was a huge part of why I was so excited to get back into Tech until this happened. But thank you guys so much for watching.
This is Jonathan and I’ll catch. You guys later .