Friday, November 7, 2008

Accident

Last night I had an unfortunate accident. I managed to splash bleach into my eye. Yes, that's right. Bleach. In my eye.

How the hell I managed this is still a mystery to me. What I can tell you, however, is that it is not an experience I would recommend. Especially after one has already had two surgeries on their eyes. It hurts like a son of a bitch!

Running water through your eyes for 15 to 20 minutes like the caution section on the bottle instructs is also quite unpleasant. Have you ever run cold water through your open eye for twenty minutes? It hurts almost as bad as the bleach! Your eye swells up, and despite the fact that it is weeping like an old woman at a wedding, it feels as if it is full of sand (yes, I've had that in my eye too, thank you very much Davy Sanders)!

Fortunately, today my eye is just fine. No sight problems (I was lucky - the bleach only reached the white of my eye - it didn't touch the iris or pupil), and it doesn't even hurt anymore. I think those of us who are accident prone, clumsy fools must be endowed with a little bit of extra good luck to make up for it.

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