Eye update

I was going to put this in my last post but for some reason it wouldn't let me type below the pictures I posted.

I went to the eye doctor yesterday for my 30 day follow up and he said I still have the blepharitis in both eyes. Ugh. I actually am getting used to my glasses, but I really hate not being able to wear make up. I told the doctor that I have Jared's 10 year reunion to go to September 19th and I'm also standing up to a wedding October 17th and I'd really like to be able to wear make up and contacts to both those events. So now I'm still on the Azithromycin ointment and I'm also on an oral antibiotic. I don't know how much you know about doxycylin but it's a pretty yucky antibiotic. Here is a list of just a few rules/restrictions that go with it:
-No prolonged sun exposure (it's summer! ick)
-No dairy (you all know how much I love cheese and ice cream. . . . )
-Has to be taken on an empty stomach, no eating an hour after or 2 hours before taking
-No getting pregnant (we are not trying to have a baby, but apparently it mutates babies which is scary for accidental pregnancy)
-Drink with at least 8-10 oz water, this one isn't a problem I drink tons of water already
-No laying down for 30 min after taking
-Lots of bad GI side effects

So I have to be on this for the next 30 days at least. The good news is, is that it doesn't seem to be getting worse. The other ointments/treatments he had me doing after about 2 weeks it would start to get worse again. With the Azith ointment I seem to be just slowly getting better. You really can't see any redness anymore it just feels a little funny still to me. Also the doctor apparently could still see these "soap bubbles" in my eyes still which indicates the infection is still present.

The "empty stomach" rule and the no dairy rule are going to be the hardest. I'm trying to look at it positively. . .I've been meaning to cut back my cheese and ice cream eating to help with my cholesterol, this is the prefect time to start. :)

More good news is the doctor said although my tears were "mildly turbid" my eyes seemed to be tearing ok and he sees no reason why I won't be able to be in contacts once we kick the infection! So far so good. I also think I'm going to try disposable soft contact lenses instead of my gas perm ones. The doctor said the blepharitis is going to be a chronic reoccurring problem I figured I didn't want to worry about disinfecting hard lenses and if it was ok I'd like to switch. He asked me why I was wearing hard lenses and I told him my eye doctor told me they'd stabilize my vision (my vision is really bad). At this point he went off about how he "strongly disagrees" with that statement and it's a fallacy that hard contacts promote good vision. He said my vision would change whether I wore hard or soft lenses. Hmmmmm makes me wonder who is right. Since I went into hard contacts I felt my vision didn't change so much, but maybe that was just a coincidence? Maybe I will get a third opinion. What do you guys think?