eyeballs
My eyes had a very bad day yesterday. Something went wrong when I took out my contact lenses thursday night (I fell asleep in them for a couple hours and they were vey dry), and in a couple hours my eyes were in awful pain. Like something was stuck in them but wouldn't come out. I'm at Winslow's, and he took me to the emergency room at 5am on Friday. Then to an Opthamologist. The emergency room said I had an abrasion on my corneas from taking out my dry lenses, and the Op said my corneas' cells were damaged from lack of oxygen. Either way, damaged cells on your eyeballs is the worst feeling in the world. It's not that the pain is horribly acute, it's that there's no releif. My eyes were watering and I could barely open them all day. Pretty much the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. They gave me a bunch of eye drops and heavy painkillers. And I have wonderful Winslow who is taking good care of me.
It's weird, because I've been wearing contacts for over 10 years. I've slept in them overnight and let them get uncomfortably dry before and nothing like this has ever happened.
I'm feeling a lot better today, but can't really wear my contacts yet until a doctor checks my eyes again, and unfortunately my glasses perscription is old, so I can't drive to work (yes, I finally got a job*). The irony of it all is I actually have an appointment at an eye doctor on Thursday to get new glasses. A week too late!
* I'm a lab tech in the infectious disease lab at the Tufts University of Veterinary Medicine! DNA extractions and PCR and Gel Electrophoresis all in the name of finding Tularemia in potentiall infected flies from Nantucket. I was actually hired as a field person, so when the weather gets nicer I'll be collecting diseased things off the islands themselves.
It's weird, because I've been wearing contacts for over 10 years. I've slept in them overnight and let them get uncomfortably dry before and nothing like this has ever happened.
I'm feeling a lot better today, but can't really wear my contacts yet until a doctor checks my eyes again, and unfortunately my glasses perscription is old, so I can't drive to work (yes, I finally got a job*). The irony of it all is I actually have an appointment at an eye doctor on Thursday to get new glasses. A week too late!
* I'm a lab tech in the infectious disease lab at the Tufts University of Veterinary Medicine! DNA extractions and PCR and Gel Electrophoresis all in the name of finding Tularemia in potentiall infected flies from Nantucket. I was actually hired as a field person, so when the weather gets nicer I'll be collecting diseased things off the islands themselves.