08 January 2007

Festering Eye Infection

Now, anyone who knows me knows I hate puss exuding eyeballs. What could be more gross?!?!?! For that matter, they don't even need to be puss exuding, a little redness will make me back away. The thought of touching an eyeball is equally horrendous. I nearly pummelled my friendly optometrist when he tried to put contacts in my eyes for the first time - I was 15 and he was taken aback by my lightening reflexes and Herculean strength.

To my supreme dismay, I have a festering eye infection. You can see what a challenge this poses. I can't exactly run away from my own eye. It just stares back at me, a huge, pulsating mass of redness.

I went to bed with perfect eyes on Friday night and woke-up on Saturday morning to find my right eye-socket sporting a large brown golfball instead of my usual orb. Hmmm. There were also two suspicious looking bug bite like things (I'm not kidding).

This could only be:
1. Chagas disease
2. Double spider bites
3. Revenge for a wrong in a past life

Explanation for Chagas disease as my top choice:
1. Minus the fact that I don't live in South America in a thatched roof house and that there are no Reduuvid bugs in Massachusetts, I think this is Chagas disease. Here is why. I went to sleep, perfectly happy as I mentioned. I woke up with two suspicious bug bites and massively swollen eyelids - Romanya's sign - an indisputable sign that I was bitten by a Reduuvid bug and have Chagas disease.
2. Who would be so unlucky to get double spider bites on their eyelid?
3. I couldn't have been that terrible in a previous life.

This morning, I noticed a large swelling in front of my right ear. Very painful too. Then jaw pain at lunch time and neck pain as I did the head-bob while fighting sleep during lecture.
The eye infection rages on.

6 comments:

Eh-choo mui mui. said...

err..."pussy eyeballs" sounds like nether regions covered in eyeballs. "pus-infected eyeballs", maybe?

anyway, why the heck are you having a pus-infected eyeball. because of TO?!

Eh-choo mui mui. said...

oops. i forgot to ask...

ARE YOU OKAY.

Karen said...

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Yikes. That sounds terrible! Is there anything you can get for it? Eye drops? (though yes, I am aware of how little drug actually gets delivered to the affected area)

I hope it goes away really soon!!

Jen said...

I'm going to have to go with eh-choo mui mui (who I think is hetti...) on the pussy eyeball. The description made me cringe. At first I thought that you were disapointed in your apparently weaker eyeball and were trying to 'tough love' it into a stronger performance. I was going to have to put a kybosh on the whole use of such language. For I don't want our children growing up in such a harsh cruel environment. Whereby, if they don't perform strongly naaners calls them a PU$$Y... ha ha. Love Jen

Unknown said...

Somebody save this burgeoning ID specialist from herself! She thinks I am destined to go into neuro, but here she gets one little painful eyeball, and we get a dissertion on the habits and lifestyle of the reduvid (however you spell it) bug. I hope you get better soon!

Unknown said...

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