Where I complain About My Eye

Well, there's nothing a like a medical scare to get you moving in the morning. I woke up Monday morning blind in my left eye. I didn't notice at first because I wake up before dawn and it was dark, but as soon as the sun started to come up I realized I could barely see out of my left eye. After washing my glasses repeatedly and administering that ocular cure all Visine, I decided it was definitely my eye and nothing else and it was now appropriate to panic.

Henry was still asleep and he had to be brought to daycare in some way. Luckily my father in law was around. Unfortunately there's no car-seat in his car. Which means I had to weave my way 10 blocks pushing a stroller. Which gave me plenty of time for panicky consideration. I was even making plans on how to finish my books with one eye. Ugh. So, my father in law met me at the day-care and drove me to emergency. I happened to be reading tom Sawyer that day, which is a fantastic book to have on hand to distract yourself from any terrors. It was the graveyard scene, if you know the book, which is an amazing scene. Spooky and funny and thrilling. I must have looked funny sitting there with a book about two inches from my face with one eye squeezed shut.

Through some amazing fate related thing there happened to be an ophthalmologist on hand to give my eye a thorough look. This all happened in the surgery department so I was expecting that any moment i would be on a gurney and wheeled frantically through the hospital in order to have my eye extracted before it exploded like an appendix.

The very practical Dr Smith (really!) explained to me that I had an ulcer over my eye as a result of an infection and it would clear up after a few days if I'd just put some drops in it.

Dr Smith, it seems, knows what he's talking about, as I lay here watching an Orsen Welles movie on TCM my vision is finally clearing up, instead of foggy Plexiglas it's more like rain on my glasses.

This was a couple of days ago, and things are getting better. Still not great but better. What's pretty amazing is I feel like I've barely missed a step. Who knew I could draw with one eye?