So. Unloading our new couch off my friend's pickup, I turned to look at him as I was releasing the bungee cord holding it in....you see where this is going? FWAP! Big nasty buckle slingshots right into my left eye. Picture me, on the ground, holding my face and making angry noises. I actually had a split second during the pain rush to feel my face to see if there were chunks of vitreous humor or blood or anything like that but, luckily, no. My cornea is pretty scratched up, and my eyelid/eye area is a total nightmare. It's so swollen and yick that my nose has been running on that side all night from the drainage. Sexy, huh? My eyelid is turning that color of purple that's almost black, and is gonna turn that yummy yellow-green too, I'll bet. Anyway, I've been wearing an eyepatch all night and making random pirate jokes. If I had lost my eye over something so retarded I woulda been pissed. Oh, also, painkillers don't seem to effect the eye for some reason? At least the Darvocets I got. The rest of me feels great...but the eye? Not so much. I can see out of it, though. It's hard to open it, and t's a bit blurry still, but hopefully everything will be groovy in a day or two. I feel like a complete idiot. The wife and I were trying to make up alternate cool stories about "How I lost my eye" to alleviate the tension when it first happened, because a bungee cord is just so not cool.![]()




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