Me vs my eyes

[Lindsey]

Oh my goodness. Well, the good news is I don't have pink eye this time! Yayyyy!

Sunday night Scott and I were just hanging out watching a football game, and my eyes were tired so I rubbed them. All of a sudden there was this searing pain in my right eye and I couldn't see anything so I ran to remove my contacts. The right eye still stung and was really red. It stayed red all night.

Monday morning I drove Scott to work and it was so hard for me to drive to my work after. My eye is sooooo light sensitive now. I probably shouldn't have even tried. He has just been contracted to another company with an office in the north end of the city and I work downtown so it is quite a drive. It was worse picking him up after work.

This morning I made him drop me off first. I was sure I just had a scratch on my eye from my contact. So I went to work but it was awful. I had to turn my computer screen brightness way down... just enough brightness so I could read. Of course that strained my eyes a little more. After dealing with pain and tearing all morning, I called my optometrist and she squeezed me in this afternoon. Scott took off work to drive me.

She could see the irritation immediately, but when she looked closer and with dye in my eyes, there was no scratch. What I have in my right eye, and a little bit in my left eye as well, is a mass of white blood cells. She said I probably had a reaction to maybe my contacts or my contact solution or something, and there is no bacteria right now but it could become a bacterial infection easily. After doing a reading test, I realized my eyesight is qiute blurry from this! So anyways, she put me on an antibiotic (to prevent an infection) and steroid (to take down the inflammation) combination eye drop, and wants to see me back in a week. If it was left untreated, it could leave scar tissue that would affect my sight forever. I am so glad I went in!