my eyes! my eyes!
Feb. 28th, 2006 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katekatlast night I felt a little tich in my eye. The kind where you figure you've gotten a bit of sleep-goo, or maybe a cat hair (those that are invisible to normal sight, but still hurt anyway). I went to sleep, assuming that my eye would rinse itself out and I'd be fine in the morning.After tumultuous dreams of missing tests, I woke to find that the niggling little scritchy feeling was still there.
Next I did something no one should ever do: I put my contacts in and proceeded with my day.
Yes, I know, monumentally stupid. No excuses like 'zero caffeine' or 'i don't actually have a working pair of glasses' really work to expunge my insanity. I know this. I really do. But dammit, I didn't want to miss Japanese.
not because I'm a good student or anything, but because if we miss even a single day (even with a doctors note) we will not get 2% added on to our total grade at the end of the semester. And since I'm now grade-mad -- and since my summer semester that's what vaulted me from a B to an A -- I didn't want to screw it up)
Needless to say, on the way to school, my friendly little scritch turned into a small knitting needle that seemed to be attached to my lid - and every time I blinked, it scratched.
After an hour wait in the 'emergency care' waiting room of student health services (whose seats smelled like a combination of dirty college student, sick/vomit, and that weird antibacterial cleanser that you know just doesn't kill as many things as they say it will), I was seated in a patient room.
I greeted the ever-present white walls, sat on the paper-covered patient bed, and tried to behave myself. But my usual patience was worn completely thin because I couldn't read. That's the only way I make it through the interminable wait at any doctors office with good humor. I bring a book I give a shit about, and I read the damn thing. But with my right eye in searing pain at this point I was totally unwilling to blink any more than I had to. Instead I fidigeted, for an hour and a half, on the uncomfortable patient bed, and tried not to look at the walls or the charts or anything else. Because reading just made both eyeballs twitch back and forth, and that simply didn't feel good.
After hour 1, I thought I'd check to make sure they hadn't forgotten me - ducking my head out the door and peering around, only to see that yes, the little green light on my door was still flashing (isn't that ubiqutious for 'enter here' in all doctors offices?). Apparantly the nurse saw me and came over to tell me that someone was coming, soon, really.
Soon turned out to be half an hour later, and 15 minutes after that I was out the door, with my cornea scratched, my contacts forbidden for the week, and my antibiotic prescription for eyedrops in my hand.
Since I can't see 10 inches in front of my face without my contacts, Neil (my knight in shiny armor) came to pick me up, whooshed me to Lens Crafters, and $280 later I'm the proud owner of new glasses, and a slightly scritchy eye I have to medicate every 3 hours. I'm an idiot. Believe me, I'm paying for it.
Next I did something no one should ever do: I put my contacts in and proceeded with my day.
Yes, I know, monumentally stupid. No excuses like 'zero caffeine' or 'i don't actually have a working pair of glasses' really work to expunge my insanity. I know this. I really do. But dammit, I didn't want to miss Japanese.
not because I'm a good student or anything, but because if we miss even a single day (even with a doctors note) we will not get 2% added on to our total grade at the end of the semester. And since I'm now grade-mad -- and since my summer semester that's what vaulted me from a B to an A -- I didn't want to screw it up)
Needless to say, on the way to school, my friendly little scritch turned into a small knitting needle that seemed to be attached to my lid - and every time I blinked, it scratched.
After an hour wait in the 'emergency care' waiting room of student health services (whose seats smelled like a combination of dirty college student, sick/vomit, and that weird antibacterial cleanser that you know just doesn't kill as many things as they say it will), I was seated in a patient room.
I greeted the ever-present white walls, sat on the paper-covered patient bed, and tried to behave myself. But my usual patience was worn completely thin because I couldn't read. That's the only way I make it through the interminable wait at any doctors office with good humor. I bring a book I give a shit about, and I read the damn thing. But with my right eye in searing pain at this point I was totally unwilling to blink any more than I had to. Instead I fidigeted, for an hour and a half, on the uncomfortable patient bed, and tried not to look at the walls or the charts or anything else. Because reading just made both eyeballs twitch back and forth, and that simply didn't feel good.
After hour 1, I thought I'd check to make sure they hadn't forgotten me - ducking my head out the door and peering around, only to see that yes, the little green light on my door was still flashing (isn't that ubiqutious for 'enter here' in all doctors offices?). Apparantly the nurse saw me and came over to tell me that someone was coming, soon, really.
Soon turned out to be half an hour later, and 15 minutes after that I was out the door, with my cornea scratched, my contacts forbidden for the week, and my antibiotic prescription for eyedrops in my hand.
Since I can't see 10 inches in front of my face without my contacts, Neil (my knight in shiny armor) came to pick me up, whooshed me to Lens Crafters, and $280 later I'm the proud owner of new glasses, and a slightly scritchy eye I have to medicate every 3 hours. I'm an idiot. Believe me, I'm paying for it.
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Date: 2006-03-01 12:01 am (UTC)*petpet*
hope you get well soon, love.
~e!
ACK! wrong icon!
Date: 2006-03-01 12:03 am (UTC)*snuggles you*
~e!
Re: ACK! wrong icon!
Date: 2006-03-01 04:59 am (UTC)although for some reason I found the laugh icon not inappropriate... I'm in a funny mood today, is all.
*snugs you, no matter what icon you use*
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Date: 2006-03-01 04:59 am (UTC)it's getting better already (or maybe i've just got enough medicine in my eye it feels better).
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Date: 2006-03-01 01:10 am (UTC)Feel better honey!
(eyes squick me out, so i had to skim most of the entry, sorry! *hugs more*)
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Date: 2006-03-01 05:01 am (UTC)they totally squick me too, so I'm sorry you even had to skim (i would've probably skipped a similar entry on my flist - i totally have a thing about other people's eyes *shudder*)
i'm feeling better already, thankfully. It helps to get the emotions out, then the body feels more relaxed, I think.
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Date: 2006-03-01 01:12 am (UTC)My new squinty eye Jayne icon seemed appropiate.
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Date: 2006-03-01 01:12 am (UTC)Squinty!
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Date: 2006-03-01 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:02 am (UTC)(and yes, for some reason i'm in a totally dorky mood)
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Date: 2006-03-01 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 04:24 am (UTC)And as hot as she is, she's not even in my top ten. Nor's Aly. Shocked? :p
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Date: 2006-03-02 04:34 am (UTC)And who's in your top ten then? Curious minds want to know!!
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Date: 2006-03-02 04:41 am (UTC)Umm. Le'see.
In no real order, I'd have to say Salma Hayek, Catherine Zeta Jones, Penelope Cruz, Famke Janssen, Morena Baccarin, and ... uh. I don't know. There're others but those're the only ones that jump immediately to mind that I would put in the Hottest (as opposed to just plain Hot) category.
Jean Grey excepted, you'll probably notice a pattern. :p
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Date: 2006-03-04 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:04 am (UTC)*hugs you*
thank you for the love, though. I'm feeling better already - I don't know if it's the medication, the fast healing eye, or just my mood picking up... but i'm not knocking it.
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Date: 2006-03-01 03:41 am (UTC)Ouchy.
{{hugs again}}
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Date: 2006-03-01 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 04:25 am (UTC)At least you got it sorted though. Poor you!
::more hugs::
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Date: 2006-03-01 05:08 am (UTC)and 2 hours was MUCH too long in my opinion too!
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Date: 2006-03-01 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 05:09 am (UTC)thanks lady - I'm feeling much better now - it's always scary when it's an eye thing though, because i'm so blind without glasses or contacts - somehow my thinking is attached to the clarity in my eyes. Anyway, things are getting better, and i appreciate the pettage. It helps, muchly.
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Date: 2006-03-01 05:10 am (UTC)On the bright side, glasses can add considerably to a person's sexy factor.
-BJ
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Date: 2006-03-01 05:27 am (UTC)i'm willing to go for that theory! now, where's giles when i need him? ;)
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Date: 2006-03-01 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 09:53 am (UTC)Yey glasses, then! Woo! Also, I think glasses could possibly be useful if, say, your eyes itch or something, non-at-the-moment-itching to be taken into consideration. I dunno, sometimes my eyes just feel all dry and ouchy without anything being wrong. Oh, or reading in bed! Or when you're running late and don't want to jab yourself in the eye? Many, many handy uses for glasses.
Hurray for no pain, though! It is always a good thing!