Eyeballs and other stuff

Well, so here's what happened yesterday. Okay, it started actually at around 5 AM. I woke up to this crazy pain in my left eye. I made my way to the bathroom, turned on the light which was frigging blinding (but I was too scared to turn it off; there's a mirror in my bathroom, Bloody Mary anyone?) and managed to get some of my drops into my eye. It felt a little bit better and after a few minutes, I was able to fall back to sleep. My guess was that my eye had gotten all dried out and it stuck to my eyelid, and then when I moved my eye around it went, RIIPPP. I kept thinking of that part from Hannibal, remember that?

So then at 5:30 PM I'm getting ready to go to Kung Fu and I know the air is really dry there, Sifu burns a lot of incense sometimes, so I figured I would pre-emptively throw some eye drops in before heading out. So I put the drops in my right eye, no problem. I put them in my left eye, then all of a sudden it was like someone was shoving a rusty nail into my eye. I couldn't see because it was all blurry, just like bands of light. It was worse whenever I would blink, but of course when you feel like you have something in your eye, you want to blink more. So I was like, "Ow! ... Ow! ... Ow!... Ow! ..." every few seconds. I figured that this would go away in a few minutes but it didn't. Finally I called my Mom and she called the eye doctor (I couldn't see to dial,) and they told her that they were closed and to call back tomorrow. She was like, "I think it's an emergency because she can't really see?" and they were like, "Well I'm sorry, but eff you."

Anyway, it stayed all watery, gritty, painful and on-and-off non-seeing until around 11:30 PM. Then it started to chill out with the pain, but it was still blurry. Blurry like it was dry but I was afraid to put the drops in it again because that's what started it off the first time.

It felt like there was something stuck in there (it was like I could feel it everytime I moved my eye) so I was trying to take a picture to see if later on I could see anything in there. Anyway, I looked at those pics today and this is what they were:

( Uhh, OW! )

So I got a call first thing this morning telling me that the only time they have open to see me is 10 AM so I would continue to wait till then. At 9:45 I had my Da drive me down there.

My doctor wasn't there today so I got this guy I'd never had before. He came in all avuncular and--I kid you not--kept ruffling my hair and calling me "kid." I was wearing my Morticia T shirt and he was like, "Oh wow, do you think you look like her? Well, I personally don't see it." He made me laugh; I was like, "Yeah, sure you don't." He goes, "Well, of course you perpetuate the image, with the black sweater and the black pants! Next time I see you, young lady, you'd better be in white or something!" It was difficult to take him seriously but at the same time he was so nice that I wasn't weirded out by all the hair-ruffling and comments and stuff.

Anyway, so he put some analgesic drops in there and went poking all around. He diagnosed that there were some abrasions and dry patches although he couldn't figure why it had happened all of a sudden. He said exactly what I thought had happened, that my eye had gotten stuck to my eyelid and a piece got ripped. He said it would account for the light sensitivity, extreme blurriness etc. He was like, "That really hurts when that happens, right?" I was like, "OH HAI HERE'S YOUR UNDERSTATEMENT! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT, BABY?!" Only of course I didn't say that.

So he put me back on the eye drops six times a day and gave me this ointment to heal it and keep everything all nice and smooth during the night. He also said, "Hey, this was an emergency, why didn't you get the doctor on call last night?" I was like, "Uhhh, because they said there wasn't one, perhaps?" That seemed to flummox him, but I doubt anyone will look into it. Jeez. He said also that this was not surgery related so they would have to charge my insurance, but he would not charge me the co-pay. Which is nice and all, but oddly, nothing like this ever happened before the surgery so, yeah.

Anyway, that's what happened with my eye.

Who watched House tonight? I was so pleased that they sneaked in two really cool little gags. The first was to have the words "TESLA WAS ROBBED!" written on the chalkboard the entire episode. S'up, science geeks? That really gave me a squee. But what gave me more of a squee was when WIlson was telling House that he couldn't have seen Cameron or Chase because they weren't there, and "you can't be in two places at once, unless you're a cat," and House took a second and then said, "Physics joke. You don't hear enough of those." I nearly stood up and cheered because this is one of my favorite references and always has been, and I do, in fact, own the T shirt. And when people ask me to explain it I usually just tell them, "It's a physics joke." And even though it wasn't necessarily that the cat was in two places at once but rather one "place" and two states of being until observation, well, still, they went there and I was geeked out and happy.

On another note, I got a really random, somewhat senseless and semi-disturbing email from an aquaintance of mine that still has me in a high state of WTF. Why do people have to be so weird sometimes? O_O

Oh, WHOA, back up, I almost forgot to add. On the recommendation of a random really cute guy, I watched the movie Mulholland Drive. Okay, and it totally blew me away. Epic tragedy, sad and compelling and brave and heartbreaking. Highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.

Eyeballs and other stuff

Well, so here's what happened yesterday. Okay, it started actually at around 5 AM. I woke up to this crazy pain in my left eye. I made my way to the bathroom, turned on the light which was frigging blinding (but I was too scared to turn it off; there's a mirror in my bathroom, Bloody Mary anyone?) and managed to get some of my drops into my eye. It felt a little bit better and after a few minutes, I was able to fall back to sleep. My guess was that my eye had gotten all dried out and it stuck to my eyelid, and then when I moved my eye around it went, RIIPPP. I kept thinking of that part from Hannibal, remember that?

So then at 5:30 PM I'm getting ready to go to Kung Fu and I know the air is really dry there, Sifu burns a lot of incense sometimes, so I figured I would pre-emptively throw some eye drops in before heading out. So I put the drops in my right eye, no problem. I put them in my left eye, then all of a sudden it was like someone was shoving a rusty nail into my eye. I couldn't see because it was all blurry, just like bands of light. It was worse whenever I would blink, but of course when you feel like you have something in your eye, you want to blink more. So I was like, "Ow! ... Ow! ... Ow!... Ow! ..." every few seconds. I figured that this would go away in a few minutes but it didn't. Finally I called my Mom and she called the eye doctor (I couldn't see to dial,) and they told her that they were closed and to call back tomorrow. She was like, "I think it's an emergency because she can't really see?" and they were like, "Well I'm sorry, but eff you."

Anyway, it stayed all watery, gritty, painful and on-and-off non-seeing until around 11:30 PM. Then it started to chill out with the pain, but it was still blurry. Blurry like it was dry but I was afraid to put the drops in it again because that's what started it off the first time.

It felt like there was something stuck in there (it was like I could feel it everytime I moved my eye) so I was trying to take a picture to see if later on I could see anything in there. Anyway, I looked at those pics today and this is what they were:

( Uhh, OW! )

So I got a call first thing this morning telling me that the only time they have open to see me is 10 AM so I would continue to wait till then. At 9:45 I had my Da drive me down there.

My doctor wasn't there today so I got this guy I'd never had before. He came in all avuncular and--I kid you not--kept ruffling my hair and calling me "kid." I was wearing my Morticia T shirt and he was like, "Oh wow, do you think you look like her? Well, I personally don't see it." He made me laugh; I was like, "Yeah, sure you don't." He goes, "Well, of course you perpetuate the image, with the black sweater and the black pants! Next time I see you, young lady, you'd better be in white or something!" It was difficult to take him seriously but at the same time he was so nice that I wasn't weirded out by all the hair-ruffling and comments and stuff.

Anyway, so he put some analgesic drops in there and went poking all around. He diagnosed that there were some abrasions and dry patches although he couldn't figure why it had happened all of a sudden. He said exactly what I thought had happened, that my eye had gotten stuck to my eyelid and a piece got ripped. He said it would account for the light sensitivity, extreme blurriness etc. He was like, "That really hurts when that happens, right?" I was like, "OH HAI HERE'S YOUR UNDERSTATEMENT! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT, BABY?!" Only of course I didn't say that.

So he put me back on the eye drops six times a day and gave me this ointment to heal it and keep everything all nice and smooth during the night. He also said, "Hey, this was an emergency, why didn't you get the doctor on call last night?" I was like, "Uhhh, because they said there wasn't one, perhaps?" That seemed to flummox him, but I doubt anyone will look into it. Jeez. He said also that this was not surgery related so they would have to charge my insurance, but he would not charge me the co-pay. Which is nice and all, but oddly, nothing like this ever happened before the surgery so, yeah.

Anyway, that's what happened with my eye.

Who watched House tonight? I was so pleased that they sneaked in two really cool little gags. The first was to have the words "TESLA WAS ROBBED!" written on the chalkboard the entire episode. S'up, science geeks? That really gave me a squee. But what gave me more of a squee was when WIlson was telling House that he couldn't have seen Cameron or Chase because they weren't there, and "you can't be in two places at once, unless you're a cat," and House took a second and then said, "Physics joke. You don't hear enough of those." I nearly stood up and cheered because this is one of my favorite references and always has been, and I do, in fact, own the T shirt. And when people ask me to explain it I usually just tell them, "It's a physics joke." And even though it wasn't necessarily that the cat was in two places at once but rather one "place" and two states of being until observation, well, still, they went there and I was geeked out and happy.

On another note, I got a really random, somewhat senseless and semi-disturbing email from an aquaintance of mine that still has me in a high state of WTF. Why do people have to be so weird sometimes? O_O

Oh, WHOA, back up, I almost forgot to add. On the recommendation of a random really cute guy, I watched the movie Mulholland Drive. Okay, and it totally blew me away. Epic tragedy, sad and compelling and brave and heartbreaking. Highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.