{"id":1554,"date":"2012-08-06T22:42:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2012-08-06T22:42:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T02:42:50","slug":"eyeball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"About My Eyeball"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an exciting new turn of events, a drama has unfolded that involves one of my eyeballs.<\/p>\n

You heard me correctly.<\/p>\n

I have what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recurrent erosion.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Prior to this summer, if you had mentioned recurrent erosion, I would have guessed you meant a condition dunes suffers from periodically during a rough storm season.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I am now decidedly unhappy to report that apparently, your cornea can erode as well.<\/p>\n

Recurrently.<\/p>\n

And painfully.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apparently, my top layer is torn and probably has been for about a year. There may or may not have been a Nerf gun incident that may or may not have taken place well over a year ago that may or may not be responsible for my cornea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recurrent erosion. It seems to be having trouble repairing itself, which manifests itself in pain and eyeball sensitivity.<\/p>\n

The solution to my eyeball woes, it appears, begins with trying regular applications of salt drops and a jelly-like substance for a time to see if that helps it heal. I sincerely hope the good people at Bausch & Lomb know what they are doing, because boric acid is one of the ingredients in the drops I now regularly put in my eyeball.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Round these parts, we use boric acid to kill palmetto bugs<\/del> water bugs<\/del> roaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next option, should the drops fail, involves a special contact. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s option three that makes me light-headed and nauseous just considering it. Because option three involves a needle<\/em> that is inserted into<\/em> my eyeball<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I am not saying this next sentence to be funny. I seriously think I could sooner observe my own open-heart surgery than watch someone casually insert a needle into my eyeball. I am the person, after all, who lived with the pain for over a year, often going through my daily tasks with one eye shut, all to avoid having an ophthalmologist come near my eyeball with a cotton swab. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the pain that scares me; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the idea of something inserted into<\/em> my eyeball<\/em>, something metal-like and sharp, while I sit observing.<\/p>\n

That just isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t right.<\/p>\n

I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask the doctor much about this possible step, because frankly, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to know. But then, in a moment of weakness, I googled the whole dastardly (I feel that this is the correct adjective here) idea. This was not one of my better decisions. I quickly stopped when the procedure started sounding like the doctor would basically be practicing his cross-stitch on my eyeball while mending the erosion.<\/p>\n

I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even try to read up on option four. It involves a laser.<\/p>\n

By\u00c2\u00a0the way, did you notice I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve used the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153eyeball\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 10 times so far? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intentional.<\/p>\n

As a funny side note, the medicine I have to put in my eyeball makes my eyeliner run and quickly fade away. Consequently, on days when I apply eyeliner in the morning and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look in the mirror again until evening, I often look, if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m to be honest here, not unlike a Cyclops, my one makeup-free eye fading into the recesses of my tired face.<\/p>\n

If you are an eye care professional or a person at all, I really wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind your advice here (given a safe distance from my eyeball, naturally), as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just rational enough about this whole thing to realize I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not being rational at all.<\/p>\n

But be gentle, please.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In life and in eye care, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only so much I want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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