May 1, 2012

Ouch.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jim @ 10:41 pm

So, today I drove 75 miles to see the ophthalmologist for a detailed eye exam (It had been a while). Preparation for the various things the doc was going to do involved drops to dilate my pupils and drops to numb my eyes. At this point, I should note that I really, really don’t like things going anywhere near my eyes. For the life of me, I cannot understand how anyone could wear contact lenses. To put them in, you actually press your finger against your eyeball. Gah!

But I digress.

So after the drops were put into my eyes, I was sent to a dimly lit room to wait for the drops to kick in.

Sometime between then and the start of the examination, I must have rubbed my numb, but watery left eye, thereby scratching my cornea. (I sure wish someone would have stressed the importance of not rubbing one’s eye.)

The bottom line is that I walked into the eye doc’s office with mahvelous farookin’ eyes and walked out with a scratched cornea, antibiotic eye drops and a follow-up appointment later in the week — yes, and another 75-mile drive.

I suppose the good news is that if you must scratch your cornea, the eye doc’s office is a good place to do it.

5 Comments »

  1. like I tell my kids, “Keep your hands in your pockets.”

    Comment by CenTexTim — May 2, 2012 @ 12:22 am

  2. Scratched Cornea?…..That`s an occupational hazard which afflicts nearsighted Gynecologists.

    Comment by dudley1 — May 2, 2012 @ 8:03 pm

  3. You DROVE after you had your eyes dialated? Yee gods man, that’s some scary stuff right there.

    If you think it would be hard to put contacts in your eyes, imagine removing them. That requires pinching them.

    Even worse was my botched lasik surgery, but we won’t go into that now.

    Rita,

    No, I did not drive. The doc does not do those exams unless you demonstrate that you have a driver. Mrs. Parkway drove me home.

    Jimbo

    Comment by Rita — May 3, 2012 @ 10:01 pm

  4. Don’t scratch when you go to the proctologist either.

    Comment by ernie nilsen — May 4, 2012 @ 6:38 pm

  5. Seriously, an eye doctor once told me he was going to put a contact in one of my eyes. I told him if he tried, I’d break his arm. I got out of the chair and left, and found a new doctor. True story. No way I will evah wear contacts.

    I did leave a doctors appointment with dilated pupils once. No way I could drive, so I walked to the bar, across the way, wearing cheap sunglasses, had a few beers, and got a ride home.

    Comment by Yabu — May 5, 2012 @ 10:45 pm

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