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North County FYI Datebook

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Events

Family Nights: Snap Tap -N- Sing with Bridget Allen 6 to 7 p.m. June 30 in the Lawn Garden at the San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. Children’s activities 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Hamilton Children’s Garden. Free with admission. $12; seniors and students $8; children 3-12 years old $6. (760) 436-3036; sdbgarden.org.

Craft Market: Poway Arts & Crafts Guild hosts a Boardwalk Craft Market 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 2 and 16; August 6 and 20 on the south boardwalk in Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Road in Poway. (858) 486-3497 or poway.org/oldpowaypark.

Annual Guajome Lakes 5K: The 9th annual cross county race benefiting Vista High School is 6 to 11 a.m. July 2 at Guajome Regional Park. guajomelakes5k2011@yahoo.com; (760) 726-5611.

Cardiff Centennial Birthday: The celebration kicks off with a parade led by grand marshal Marion Ross starting 10 a.m. July 2 at the Cardiff Post Office, 2027 Newcastle Ave. and continuing on Newcastle Avenue to Glen Park, 2149 Orinda Drive for festivities until 4 p.m. including live music, games, 55 arts and crafts vendors, games, historical exhibits and food. Concerts feature Bucket Ruckus, Wigbillies, Night Doctors, Todash Band and Rocket Science. The Belmont Village Shuttle will pick up event goers starting at 9:30 a.m. at Encinitas City Hall, 505 S. Vulcan and on the half-hour until 3 p.m. Cardiff. 101MainStreet@gmail.com or (760) 436-0431.

LexBox Beach Party: Family concert 3 to 6 p.m. July 2 at the Oceanside Pier Amphitheater. ci.oceanside.ca.us

“Megamind:” The movie will be shown at dusk with activities starting at 7 p.m. June 2 at Grape Day Park, 321 N. Broadway, Escondido. Free. The first of seven movies to be shown throughout the summer in the park. grapedaypark.org.

Garden Parade: San Diego Botanic Garden’s 4th of July Parade is 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at 230 Quail Gardens Drive. Bring decorated strollers and wagons (no bikes and scooters) and wear red, white and blue for a parade through the garden. Meet at Seeds of Wonder at 9:30; parade starts at 10 a.m. sharp. Cost: Free with admission or membership. Admission: $12; seniors and students $8; children 3-12 years old $6. Free for active duty military. (760) 436-3036; sdbgarden.org.

Six Until Me.: Eye Love San Diego.

Back at the beginning of May, the Bird took a swipe at my left eyeball with her little birdie talon, ripping off a nice, solid chunk of my cornea and leaving me in some serious pain.  It was a rough couple of days, especially because Chris was away for the week on business, but my family and friends pitched in to help with the baby and to allow me to heal. 

I figured I was done with this issue.

"You may want to be careful about recurrence, Kerri.  With this kind of injury, it does happen."  My eye doctor warned me, handing me a small tube of eye goop stuff.  "This is Muro 128.  Pull down your lower eyelid and smear this in there.  It will help keep your eye coated while you sleep."

(Oh eyeball injuries.  You make me feel old, because if you Google " Muro 128 ," you'll see that this product is targeted at the 60+ crowd.  Throw in a few tennis balls for my walker and I'm ready for my debut at the bingo hall.)

I used the stuff, but it wasn't enough to protect me from San Diego's desire to blind me.  I don't know if the air conditioning was super-intense, or if the air was beyond dry, or if it was some perfect storm of eye effery, but on Friday morning, I woke up with my eye the size of a baseball and the cornea so ripped and red that you could barely see the blue of my iris.  

"Oh you pesky little whippersnapper," I said.  Verbatim.  Didn't throw in any curse words.  Nope.

I knew the cornea abrasion was back, with a vengeance, but I had no idea how bad it was going to be to manage this condition while traveling.  Something about hotel air and climate control measures taken by conference rooms (plus all that recycled airplane air on the flight from RI to CA) made for a very ripe string-cheesing .  And also impeded healing.  So on Friday, I spent the morning sitting on the floor of my hotel bathroom with the lights off and the air conditioning off, talking with my eye doctor in RI and hoping to have a prescription for numbing drops, anti-inflammatory drops, or a glass eyeball called in. 

In efforts to truncate this tale, I ended up missing the last morning of the Roche Summit .  I also missed the entire ADA Scientific Sessions conference.  I spent early Friday afternoon in the care of my wonderful d-friends and then holed up in my second hotel for the rest of the day.  (It was a nice hotel, too, from what I smelled of it.)  Hours on end of trying to sleep, waking up with that feeling of razorblades in my eye, and trying to reschedule my flight.  The pain was one thing, but the inconvenience of not being able to see made me very nervous.  I couldn't see my meter results, my CGM graph, or the readout on my pump clearly at all, making me paranoid about managing my diabetes.  Total chaos.  I ended up finding a flight to get me out on Saturday afternoon, and it wasn't until Monday morning that I had my vision mostly restored in my left eye.

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