The "Eyes" Have It!

Well folks, it seems that I've missed another day posting. I have a good excuse, really. There I was, innocently sitting at the lunch table on Wednesday minding my own business, munching my roasted chicken sandwich. When all of the sudden, I felt something fly into my eye. Thinking it was just the ordinary, loose eyelash, I proceeded to the ladies restroom and began the hunt. About 20 minutes and much eyewatering later, I had produced no results, and the pain was only getting worse. I even tried washing my eye out with water. With no luck, I finally just tried to ignore my eye. I just figured that I had gotten something in my eye, it had come out, and I had just irritated it by rubbing, poking, proding. By the time that I picked Casey up from work, I was in total misery. He agreed to do the afternoon drive home, since I was somewhat blinded by the watering eyes. I finally made it home to some eye drops. I figured that would help by moisturizing and soothing my eye. As I squeezed those wonderful, luscious drops into my eyes, I waited for the immense relief that I just knew would follow. That was NOT the case. I probably broke the world record for the most obscenities strung together in a row. It felt like I'd poured pure alcohol into my eye. That's when I knew that I had a problem. I ended up calling my optemetrist, Dr. Hasty. He's always very good to do work in's in his schedule. He said to come right away, and he'd have a look at me. I got to the office, signed in, and was led back to the pre-exam area. The nurse checked my vision, which was funny, since my eyes were watering so badly that I could barely see anyway. She also tested the pressure to check for eye injury as well. After all of that, I finally was seated in the exam chair. Then the fabulous, wonderful relief finally occurred, when the Dr. put the deadening drops in my eyes to prepare for the inspection. After a little poking, proding, and swabbing, he'd identitfied the problem and removed a piece of metal the size of a pin head that had been embedded in my eye lid. It seems that every time I'd blinked, since lunchtime, I had been scratching the surface of my eye with this metal. I had a pretty nasty looking eye. He used some antibiotic drops in my eye and sent me home with special eye drops. He also told me to return on Thursday, so he could take a look at the progress and give me another dose of antibiotic drops. I felt much better then, until the deadening drops wore off about 7:30 that night. Had a fitful night, and ended up taking off from work yesterday. After my second round of antibiotics yesterday afternoon, I finally feel as if I'm on the mend. The only thing that puzzles me now is where in the world did that metal come from? The world may never know. Hopefully, that will be the end of my trials for the week and things will get back to normal now. For all of you fellow dog lovers head on over to the Tails In Need website. This is an organization that promotes care and adoption of mixed breed dogs. They are sponsoring a contest called The Great American Mutt. Just click on one of the banners, and you'll be taken there. So, if you have a mixed breed dog, go ahead and enter. I think I will too! Until next time.....