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During this holiday season I know you are all wanting to wish me health and happiness--but given my robust figure and odds for diabetes, you wonder if the well-wishing will just make me feel bad--sort of like wishing me skinnier.
Well, just to put you all at ease, I have decided this year to not send a Christmas card picture of myself--at least not all of me. Instead, I have posted a picture of my eye (in red and green holiday colors). If you click and zoom you will note that the blood vessels are crisp and healthy. Diabetes results in little blotches at the ends of the vessels that look almost like leaves on a blood vessel tree. There are clearly none here! The bright green is my optic nerve (also rather healthy if I do say so myself), and the dark splotch to the right is the fovia or focus--a perfect little cone for viewing fine detail. Also pictured are well groomed eyelashes to the bottom and right/left of the picture. I feel that this picture is a much better summary of how my year has gone and what we are "looking" forward to in the coming year--no need for photographs and stories about what we've done this year.
So, while you're reviewing our holiday pictures and wondering if I'm about to kill over from being overweight--rest assured that my girth is quite healthy and you should feel no reluctance to pass me the eggnog.
(OK, actually my optomitrist tricked me into paying $40 for a photographic eye exam, and I'm trying to make the most of it...)
