Earache My Eye!

Tis the season for cold weather, fa la la la laaa la la la la. Bundle up and get you better, fa la la la laaaa la la la la, coughing, sneezing, eyes are weeping, fa la laa la la laaa la la laaaa, if you dont you will pay deeply, fa la la la laaaaaa la la la laaaaa.

Woke up sunday, felt good, was happy, was about to have 2 days off from work, had some family stuff to do. I got out of bed, went to get a cup of coffee, and felt something in my right eye. I grabbed a tissue and lightly wiped my eye, nothing there. Figured it was nothing, so I went on to get my coffee, and start to contemplate my day.

Uh oh, I guess something is in my eye, its starting up again. I went to the mirror to look, EEEEK it was swolle, the lid was anyway.

This will NOT do. I figured I was having an allergic reaction to something, because I felt fine!!

I took some benadryl, which I really didnt want to do, I was feeling fine, and benedryl makes me very sleepy. I bit the bullet, took the pills and went to sleep for a few hours.

When I woke, It looked like the swelling went down a bit, but was still there.

I went on with my day, didnt stop anything I had planned, went on a nice long bike ride, the eye wasnt really bothering me.

When I got back from my ride, I was freezing. It was cold out! but I couldnt warm up, at least the eye swelling was not getting worse.

Had a family dinner, poked around online, watched a movie, talked to the boy, went to bed.

I woke up this morning, to my eye being swollen shut. WTF was my only reaction.

I called my opthamologist, who had me come in today in the afternoon so he could see what was going on. But in the meantime, I was told to keep warm compresses on it.

In the time between the phone call and the appt, my eye began to weep, and become sensitive to light.

Finally made it to my appt, where I had to go through the normal battery of preliminary tests, including the glaucoma test (you know that fun little puff of air in the eye). I wished the tech luck with that test, and I was informed, that I would have "numbing drops" put into my eyes, to allow them to test for glaucoma with this thing that looked like a blunt object poked into the center of my eye. CHRIST, give me the puff of air any day.

SOOOO attractive to have my eye held open with a stick. I have become an "ewwww" story.

The preliminary tests came out fine, no wierd pressure, no glaucoma, no eye injury.

My doctor came to look at me, and he said the only thing he could think of, is that it is the grand-daddy of a sty forming (HOT, isnt it??) and that I have to take antibiotics and have warm compresses on my eye to try to make it go down. and if after a while, if it still doesnt go down, I may have to have surgery on it, to see what exactly is going on.

GOOD TIMES!!!

Ill keep you posted.

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