March 31, 2006

Hey, Four Eyes

It started off as a little blurry vision. Fine, contact lens must not be sitting right, I'll blink a lot. Still blurry. Now it hurts. Take it out, soak it, put it back in to go to a meeting - hurts so much you take it out right in the middle of the event and then proceed to apologize for your eye that is tearing profusely. Now it hurts even without the lens. Hmmm, wait it out.

Waiting.

Nope, still hurts. Still lots of tears. Eyelid swelling up too.

Should probably go see the doctor. So, go see the doctor.

Scratched cornea. Possible infection. Antibiotics and no contacts for ten days.

That means: glasses. Twenty years of wearing contact lenses and I've had nary a problem; now I'm wearing a pair of glasses (the cheapest ones they had - I look like an accountant).

How do you four-eyed people do this? It sucks.