The Eye of the Beholder

Or in this case, the eye of the owner. Last night E and I were suppose to go see Neko Case perform at Bimbo's 365. I left work, walked to the bus, and as I was crossing the street, the wind picked up. Next thing I knew I had something stuck in my eye.

I tried all the usual tricks on the two bus rides home - blinking a lot, rubbing, pulling my eyelid over the lower lid. Nothing worked. I even tried looking into the side mirror of a parked truck while I waited for the 19 bus to see if I could see the offending object. No luck.

I got home and turned on all the lights in the bathroom, got out the eyedrops and magnifying mirror and started poking at my eye. No matter what I did I couldn't see anything and it was now getting red and sore in addition to feeling like I had a rock stuck under my lid.

E finally came home to me curled up on the couch with my eyes shut looking (and feeling) totally miserable. We called the Kaiser advice nurse and (after waiting way to long on hold) was told to report to the doctor at 9:30. Which was two hours away. I was also told to ice my eye and take some Advil.

Luckily about 1/2 hour later Kaiser called and asked me to come in right away. They were afraid that if I waited until 9:30 and they couldn't treat me, the injury clinic would be closed and they'd have to send me to emergency. E stopped making dinner and we reported to the injury clinic and I was quickly seen by the same doctor who treated me when Horus bit me. He remembered me.

The doctor couldn't see anything in it and didn't see any scratches on the cornea.
I got my eye flushed and he sent me home with instructions to call the eye department today if I wasn't better. By the time I got home the anesthetic was wearing off and it felt like something was in there again. I went straight to bed.

This morning it's sore, but more like a pulled muscle sore, not rock under lid pain. I'm guessing that it's from all the poking and proding that was done yesterday.

So, sadly we missed Neko, but happily I can see. I was almost hoping that I'd get an eye patch (Arrrgh, Matey!) in time for the Halloween party on Tuesday. But I'm releaved that everything is back to normal.