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If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it did it really make a sound? If i post a blog and nobody reads it was there really any point? You have entered the random thinking space of Morgan Bell . . . These are my musings . . . things about my life written off the top of my head . . . written in an informal disjointed style almost completely devoid of punctuation, this is where i flesh out writing ideas, discuss my life, and generally be self indulgent . . . it is also the bargain bin for articles which do not fit in with the film or arts themes of my other blogs . . . so have a wander around my mind, have a laugh, have a think, be nice, and humour me!

my eyeball hurts!

October 7th 2008 10:01
my right eye (my good eye) has been really sore and bloodshot for over ten days now so i had to go to an eyeball specialist (ophthalmologist) who said i have IRITIS and gave me steroid eydrops and an eye-dialating potion!

the GP tried some antibiotic eyedrops but to no avail . . . i cant be around light without being in excruciating pain (photophobia), and there is an extraordinary amount of pressure built up in and around the eye

ouch!







i want my good eye back!

apparently IRITIS can be symptomatic of underlying conditions like gout, arthritis, psoriasis, lupus, and even syphillis and herpes . . . the opto expert said it is likely a result of my chronic back pain . . . but it is interesting that everything from luekemia to tuberculosis can cause this terrible eyeball affliction

lets see what Cornell would say:

Painted blue across my eyes
And tie the linen on
And I'm on my way
Looking for the paradigm
So I can pass it off
Is it on my side
Is it to the sky
Looking to the sky and down
Searching for a ground
With my good eye closed
If I took you for a ride
Would you take it wrong
Or would you make it right
Looking for a pedestal
That I can put you on
And be on my way
Is it to the sky
Looking to the sky and down
Searching for a ground
With my good eye closed
Stop you're trying to bruise my mind
I can do it on my own
Stop you're trying to kill my time
It's been my death since I was born
I don't remember half the time
If I'm hiding or I'm lost
But I'm on my way









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Comment by Jason King

October 7th 2008 10:18
Oooh - get better - u will type funny without both eyes. Best wishes!! Hugs

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 7th 2008 10:21
hi Jason,
thanks for the sympathy . . . ill keep typing even if i lose my vision!
ill get a brail computer or a voice activated one!
im sure then i will go hoarse and loose then sensation in my fingertips! haha
oh well, i hear pirate eye patches are coming back into fashion!
<< thats my eye! lol

Comment by Jason King

October 7th 2008 10:31
Hahahahaha - glad u still have high spirits - do they know what is causing it for you? Fingers crossed all will be fine!

Comment by alt_ed

October 7th 2008 10:49
perhaps you've caught AIDS! see, the crazy cat lady warned you of what would happen if you let iota outside... hope you get your eye back soon

Comment by Tracy

October 7th 2008 10:50
You're such an admirable lassie, Morgan. You're creative and up-beat even with a bloody sore eyeball.

Hope it gets better quickly. Maybe you need a patch?

Trace

Comment by Tracy

October 7th 2008 10:52
And the 'bloody' usage wasn't a pun...

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 7th 2008 11:49
hi Jason,
its good to keep a sense of humour about things!
best guess is that its another delightful symptom of my back injury . . . lets hope it goes away!


hi alt_ed,
yes its either iota with her aids or i got some pink-eye from the nearby dairy cows! haha


hi Tracy,
awww thanks!
nice unintentional pun!
i like the old addage about lemons and lemonade, the one god thing about experiencing bad things is that you can spin a good yarn out of it!


thanks for the comments everyone!

Comment by Two Guys Sports

October 7th 2008 12:31
Hi Morgan,

Don't worry, eye patches aren't just for pirates anymore!
Cool Non-Pirate Eye Patch Wearing Characters.

Also a word of caution - making fresh squeezed lemonade and spinning yarn are both hazardous when done with a bad-good eye. Please put them on hold till the eye gets better. And do not let the cows think you got pink-eye from them. . . They will think you gave it to them and might become Mad Cows

OK, hopefully somewhere in there you got a smile even with the bad-good eye. In all seriousness though, get better soon, and until then get the patch and say Arggggghhh! a whole bunch.

Gene

Comment by Two Guys Sports

October 7th 2008 12:43
lol, so after I posted that comment I clicked to check out any updated comments on the "if my parents were on tv. . ." post. As I scrolled down the page I saw an ad that fits a couple recent conversations, including this one.

The ad read - "Click for Female Pirate Booty." Of course I had to click the ad to see what it was.

Click for Pirate Booty

If you click the Pirate Treasures tab at the top you can get yourself a pirate hat for $30, and a bargain price on an eye patch at $2.50! Can't beat that, although it is a cheap plastic one, but anyway.

Just thought I would share.

Comment by Janet Collins

October 7th 2008 13:56
Morgan

I reckon the eye patch idea is a good one. You could look pretty cool and would probably get lots of sympathy and attention. Worth a try maybe!

And I hope it gets better for yours and our sakes.

Janet

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 7th 2008 15:56
hi Gene,
youre a funny bugger!

making fresh squeezed lemonade and spinning yarn are both hazardous when done with a bad-good eye

dont use my folksy phrases against me man!
just look how far Sarah Palin has gotten with hers!
see theres a whole generation of people that think of Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom when you say "pirates" . . . it might almost be worth poking ones eye out entirely if that was the company you would get to keep!





hi Janet,
hopefully my multiple eyedrops will do the trick!
thankyou for all your well-wishes, at least i know i can come to orble for the sympathy and attention that i require without having to lash out on a patch!
(however if i did get one i would have to consider becoming an assassine like Elle Driver in Kill Bill!)

Comment by Norm

October 7th 2008 21:53
I hope you don't have leukemia. You're one of my best commenters. Even though you only ever think of yourself, I love you still.
Get Well, as they say, Soon

Comment by alt_ed

October 7th 2008 22:03
Morgan you can only wear the eye patch if you've got the peg leg to match! THAT'S THE RULES!!

Comment by Aimzster

October 8th 2008 01:43
Gawd, that sounds painful! How long did they say you were going to suffer from it? My sympathies, Morgan.

Comment by Louie

October 8th 2008 02:13
ouch, one of my enduring memories as a child was my mother having iritis and us having to drive her screaming in pain to the eye hospital in Armidale from Tamworth.... hope it gets better soon and that they are giving you enough pain killers!!!!!!

Comment by Dianna G

October 8th 2008 02:57
Morgan,

Sounds awful. I hope you get better soon. And yeah, that is pretty bloodshot.
~Dianna

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 8th 2008 04:00
hi Norm,
well if the iritis is fatal you will know someone is plotting against the success of your blog!


hi alt_ed,
hey a peg leg sounds cool!
ive been thinking about investing in a walking stick ever since i saw Rihanna on the Tyra Banks show with a diamond encrusted on . . . unfortunately i could only afford the wooden variety . . . well at least i could say i had i wooden third leg!


hi Aimzster,
hopefully it will clear up with these drops, actually it felling slightly better today . . . i think this is one of the disorders which started the myth of the vampire!


hi Louie,
oh no, your poor mum!
luckily i had some nurofen on hand to bring the swelling down a bit when it first happened . . . i have a treasure trove of pain medications for my pain injury so it was managable enough for me to take myself to the doctor . . . i wouldnt wish photophobia upon my worst enemy though!


hi Dianna,
thanks for the good vibes!
bloodshot eyes are not the most attractive but that graphic is pretty cool hey!


Comment by Two Guys Sports

October 8th 2008 04:51
think this is one of the disorders which started the myth of the vampire!

Now wait just a minute. You can't be a pirate and a vampire at the same time . . .

Or can you? :: off to write a screenplay:::

Good to hear it has gotten a little better in a day. That HAS to be a good sign.

Gene

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 8th 2008 05:24
hi Gene,
vampire pirates would be the ultimate fun!
its funny how when you put drops in your eye after a few minutes you can taste it in your mouth!

Comment by Mountain Fog

October 8th 2008 07:00
so, we can officially call you ONE EYED NOW!! tee hee!

It might just be a case of boganitis, like conjunctivitus, but caused by accidental contamination from an unclean bong mouthpiece, which came into contact with your eye socket, when you were too stupified to judge the distance or aim properly, hence the colloquialism, "bong eye"!

You have my partial sympathy, keep bathing it in the eyeball bath.

cheer
fog

P.S. In case you forgot, or didn't notice on the other blog, I have PERFECT colour vision...so there!! hah!

Comment by RubySoho

October 8th 2008 07:32
I see your Iritis and raise you TWO ear infections.

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 8th 2008 08:02
howdy Foggles,
i like your theory!
and i was very impressed with your perfect colour vision!
it seriously looks like ive been smoking bongs, but only with one half of my face! haha



hi Ruby,
aww you poor thing!
ear infections are awful, i used to get them all the time when i worked in hospitality, something to do with the steam from the kitchen and hot meals and the glass-washer in the bar . . . best prescription eardrops you can get are Kenacomb and if you need an oral anti-biotic insist of Augmentin 875mg (penicillan based) and knock those ear germs right out of the park!

Comment by Lilla

October 8th 2008 09:31
Hi Morgan,

Sorry to hear the news. Sounds like my ringing ears (meniers disease and a bit of tinitus for goodmeasure)... mine doesnt have a cure, and eventually I will go deaf, woo hoo!

Be warned you youngens, rock concerts and cell phones are not good for your ears, but you wont know until you reach 45 and then it all starts to fall apart!

Is there a cure for what you have?

I sure hope so, because I enjoy your posts without all the one-eyed typos you will ake without it .. *wink*

I guess computer screens dont help, not enough bpm?

(blinks per minute) ..

get better soon.




Comment by Morgan Bell

October 8th 2008 10:28
hi Lilla,
i believe mine is just an episode and will come good with treatment - a bit like people who suffer tonsilitis etc
permanent ear ringing sounds like torture, you are winning in the cruel and unusual illness stakes so far . . . maybe one day they will be able to manufacture new ear drums and irises from stem cells?
maybe i should be blinking more just to be on the safe side! (althoughim fairly certain this is unrelated to the computer)

Comment by Cheryl J

October 8th 2008 11:27
OUCH! I guess when people say "it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick" you'll have first hand experience of the pain a sharp stick pokin' must feel like.

Good grief woman, I told you this would happen if you stayed all night looking at internet porn!

Get better my dear.

C x

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 8th 2008 11:49
hi Cheryl,
the Crossdresser Dancer is NOT porn!
haha
although some of your posts come close!
thanks for popping in and giving me a cheer up!

Comment by RubySoho

October 8th 2008 12:23
Actually I don't think my ear infections are as bad as your sore eye, I just thought that misery loves company you know? So light really hurts? I've never heard of that before.

Comment by Cheryl J

October 8th 2008 12:52
Morgan, you do know that photophobia is a sign of vampirism! You are turning into Countess Dracula.

Someone run and get the villagers, we need stakes and garlic...

Comment by alt_ed

October 8th 2008 13:57
well Morgan, the peg leg is sure worth a shot... may even enable you to claim disability!! and it certainly wouldn't slow your walk any more than the glacial pace you move at present hehe... And c'mon, it'd be sooo cool to say 'I live with a one i'd, legged pirate' at Nords

Comment by Badfish

October 8th 2008 19:47
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Comment by Two Guys Sports

October 8th 2008 22:32
Cheryl? You forgot the flaming torches.

:: unpacking the crate of torches:: Anyone have a lighter?

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 9th 2008 04:41
hi Ruby,
think of a time you have gone to the movies during the day and come out of the cinema into the bright daylight - or the worst hangover youve ever had - and times it by a thousand!


hi Cheryl,
yes a vampire!
or those freaky kids out of that movie The Others!


hi alt_ed,
well you might as well become a pirate if you plan on living at a wharf!


hi Badfish,
one of the first days i had it was the AFL Grand Final so i was drinking that afternoon - didnt make much difference except i probably slept a bit more peacefully that night!
thanks for the suggestion!


hi Gene,
hey dont rally the townspeople and form the lynch-mob yet . . . but if you do send in the team from Buffy, they seem tolerant of my kind!



Comment by Cheryl J

October 9th 2008 10:32
How about we send in the guys from Supernatural to check you out? Just to be on the safe side of course hahaha.

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 9th 2008 11:21
haha Cheryl i like your thinking!

Comment by Morgan Bell

October 9th 2008 11:41
hi everyone,

i dont usually do political posts but because i have a sore eyeball (and am possibly a vampire) i feel entitled this week!

this one is a recap of some of the creativity and outbursts that the Palin selection has sparked amongst some pretty big name celebrities

there two funny videos to watch and links to four other funny videos and two influential written statements

CLICKHERE to view The Palin Mockery

famous faces include Gina Gershon, Tina Fey, Barbra Streisand, Harry Shearer, Matt Damon, and Gloria Steinem

Ruby, Alt-ed, and Natalie, i refernce your posts

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