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eunecte β€” A Promise Kept by-nc-nd

Published: 2008-03-14 12:11:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 211; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 2
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Description This is to uphold a promise made some time ago to a real lady and, I hope, a friend in the true sense of the word. What you might call 'candid camera, no pose, no make-up, no embellishment. Just a full-face amateur photo.
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CALYPSO84 [2008-03-16 12:28:33 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad,because i see you and now i have visual notion about you.That is great and i'm happy,because you are my friend!Sorry for my english
How are you?Big

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eunecte In reply to CALYPSO84 [2008-03-16 20:30:36 +0000 UTC]

A-ha, so it's become impossible to hide this damn photo.... Well, you won't find a more 'natural' vision of me: no make-up (ever), lanky hair - even more so when I am over-tired or hurt too much, and candid face. Photo taken by my sister a week ago with a digital camera she was using for the firts time. No post-work, no embellishment (!) except temoving the red eyes. I am never happy to see a picture of myself, but if you are, I will be, too.
Don't apologise about your english, you know you will improve with practice, and I undertand you perfectly right now.
I have had three days of practically no pain, but they came back today - mostly on my cervical spine. Still no news from the hospital, but I might get some on monday.
That's enough for me. Would you tell me a bit about YOUR news, now?
enormous and loving sss

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CALYPSO84 In reply to eunecte [2008-03-18 10:38:05 +0000 UTC]

I have very much lectures,make one project for the university,but everything is allright.The last weekend i was in one beautiful place.Is that for now.Tell me something news for you.How are you these days?

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eunecte In reply to CALYPSO84 [2008-03-18 13:35:35 +0000 UTC]

Neither good nor bad...I keep waiting and waiting for news from the hospital... The rest seems to be a meaningless blurr. I am glad your life is peaceful, and you're making projects for the university. Hoping the best in that respect, you sure deserve it... and a ton of sss

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CALYPSO84 In reply to eunecte [2008-03-19 07:08:57 +0000 UTC]

What you don't have news from the Hospital?The waiting is very nervous for you,i suppose.My mom waiting news from the hospital 6 months,but her operation was not very urgently.
I hope,you receive news very soon and big 's for you!

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eunecte In reply to CALYPSO84 [2008-03-19 12:41:06 +0000 UTC]

I have learned to be patient... They just 'lost' my rhumatologist's letter to the surgeon. She wrote another that I will fax. That way it CAN'T get lost. Don't worry, I can wait some more for news. But I have none from you! s and s and s for the day

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winklepickers [2008-03-14 17:00:35 +0000 UTC]

Well I found it too because I put you on my friends list.

dA friends.

I'm pleased to meet you, Agnès.

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eunecte In reply to winklepickers [2008-03-14 22:23:05 +0000 UTC]

Well, it was about time... The promise was something like a month old... But since I haven't let anyone take a picture of me since 1989, when I lost my eye, I had to have one made just for Ursula (u-woman). A more candid picture you couldn't find... no make-up (ever), lanky, tired hair, and taken by my sister with a digital camera she was using for the first time... No post-work either (except the red eyes... ) But a promise is a promise. Thank you so much for adding me to your dA-style friends!!

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winklepickers In reply to eunecte [2008-03-15 11:21:43 +0000 UTC]

I have flat straight hair, too, very thin and difficult to keep nice. I cut it myself.

What happened to your eye? That must be a real problem.

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eunecte In reply to winklepickers [2008-03-15 21:28:07 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I cut mine too (my hair, not my eye!). And the more tired I get, or the more pain I feel, and the more lanky they get, too. I look like death warmed over, some days...
As for the eye... I had a keratits(cornea ulcer) in 1987, while on holidays by myself after having finally finished my studies to be a translator. I was cery tired, and in dire need of some rest. Keratitis, I learned much later, is common for people with lacrymal deficit (lack of surface protection), but rather easy to treat. Some eyedrops to speed-up the cell regeneration, and that should have been it. Unfortunately, I had a violent inflamatory reaction, so that ALL the ophtalmologists I saw had to add corticoΓ―d eyedrops - which prevented the recovery process. The ulcer would start receeding, and then open agan, back and forth, back and forth I couldn't say how many times, causing my cornea to become all but opacified. I was hopitalized in isolation ward for a month, time for the Know-It-All to check for anything highly contagious like a herpes virus, treated with laser, operated three times - for the cataract (yes! yes!), for a closed angle between the two side - before and behind the cristalline that caused intra-ocular hypertension, preventing the long-awaited cornea transplant. When, finally, the transplant took place and the ophtalmologist could see beyond surface level, she discovered that what had been deemed a simple hypertension had been a glaucom. Meaning, ophtalmic nerve crushed to death, irremediably.
Everyone thought that was te last chapter of the story, as nothing more could be done. But the hypertension was still there, causing debilitating ophtalmic migraines, and so intense that the smallest shock to my eye caused the transplant to pop off like a champaign bottle stopper, and those two liquids in my eye that should never meet - something like aqueous and vitreous - to mix, and start flowing out of my eye.
I was bach in the hospital in no time, where they patched me up, and declade the cause hopeless. Well there's always an upside to anything. Obviously there was no hypertension anymore - quite the contrary, the eye had lost most of its inner liquids, and they dont reconstitute. That meant no more ophtalmic migraines, no more eye, no more hospital.
End of the story.

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winklepickers In reply to eunecte [2008-03-15 21:37:35 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I understand.
This is a terrible story, Agnès.
I can't find anything other to say.

You have a heavy cross to bear.
I know, we are both atheists.

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eunecte In reply to winklepickers [2008-03-15 22:02:51 +0000 UTC]

I still can't believe how irrational I can be. I adapted - sort of - to the functional loss - but never - even now - got used to the aesthetic loss... Don't think I ever will, this being the reason why there hasn't been a photo taken of me since 1987... Except this one for Ursula, and now for you.

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winklepickers In reply to eunecte [2008-03-15 22:09:31 +0000 UTC]

Agnès, how could you accept it?

This may sound cruel, but have you considered an artificial eye?
Perhaps you couldn't have one.

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eunecte In reply to winklepickers [2008-03-15 22:22:06 +0000 UTC]

It's not cruel, I was proposed one, and refused... I think I was still hoping that some day neurosurgeons would be able to operate on the optic nerve... But it would seem they still even hesitate to operate a hernia on the cervical spine... We are far from it. I was also proposed a kind of lens-like prothesis, that would allow me to keep what is left of my eye, and still repair the lost symetry... Maybe I am not vain enough, after all...

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winklepickers In reply to eunecte [2008-03-15 22:27:39 +0000 UTC]

Think about it again!

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eunecte In reply to winklepickers [2008-03-15 23:42:39 +0000 UTC]

Is it really worth it? I wear dark glasses when I go out, or around strangers, and the rest of the time, I just keep reminding my brain that the world is in 3D, not flat like a theatre screen, that the ground may be uneven, that thing may be closer, or farther, or more to the right than I perceive, and I forget about the symetry loss... until I look in a mirror...

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u-woman [2008-03-14 12:32:35 +0000 UTC]

What a surprise on this gray and rainy day! Thank you ever so much Agnès! That'll be just so wonderful and cool, knowing the face of the person I'm typing my messages to. You are one beautiful lady! And I thank you so very much for uploading your picture.

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eunecte In reply to u-woman [2008-03-14 12:46:11 +0000 UTC]

You're kidding me, right ? I rally, really would like to have a scrap book into which I could cram this so that nobody would ever think to look at it. That was just for you!!

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u-woman In reply to eunecte [2008-03-14 12:55:09 +0000 UTC]

What do you mean, kidding you? Not kidding at all, no! Even if you put it to your scraps, it can be seen by everyone.....

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eunecte In reply to u-woman [2008-03-14 13:23:27 +0000 UTC]

I was referring to your 'You are one beautiful lady'. It has to be a joke..
As for my picture being seen by 'everyone', as long as it isn't in any deviation category, you'd really have to go looking for it... And who would do such a thing?

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