Red Eye

Yesterday morning, I had regular bloodshot eyes, as a result of two nights in a row out til 11 **gasp** for Humphrey's by the Bay concerts. There was one particularly red patch in my right eye.

I noticed this as I was leaving. There was a bottle of Visine 'gets the red out' right there, so I put some in and waited a few minutes with my eyes closed.

When I looked in the mirror again, it looked as if I had a big drop of blood in my right eye on the right side. It would not spill out of my eye. it was like a bubble, something liquidy with a really high surface tension. And it looked like red liquid. When I looked to the left, it stretched out and looked almost normal. When I looked to the right, it compressed right up against my iris but no further.

I went out and tried for quite a few minutes to get the attention of my boyfriend, who was on the phone with a client. Mostly I wanted to know if I could use the computer keyboard that was in his lap, to email in to work. I was like that kid on Youtube who yelled "blood! blood!" while his parents laughed and videotaped. But I didn't yell, cause he was on the phone with a client. I just pointed at my eye a lot. So he smiled and waved. So I took off my glasses. And so on.

Finally I got his attention and sent the email and laid on the couch for a while with a little mirror in my hand, constantly checking to see if my eyeball had exploded.

By this time Jim had gotten off the phone. He was concerned and wanted to call the doctor. I had decided it was probably the Visine doing something weird, and that it wasn't getting redder and that it was mostly reflection of the regular bloodshot eyes. I got him to settle for me laying on the couch. It was Boring.

I stayed home all day due to bloodshot eyes. That's a new one for me.

This evening, I told Jim "I never want to put Visine in my eyes ever again" and he said "I wouldn't". We decided to throw away that bottle, anyway.

I went in there and before I threw it away, I checked the expiration date.




JUNE 2001

GAH

Glad I'm not blind.