day two of pink eye

ok, let's just say that pink eye becomes far less charming on the weekends....

last night i woke up at 3:45, unable to go back to sleep because my eyelid was chaffed and burning and my lymph nodes were getting too fat for comfort. so i got to watch a lot of animal planet - mostly chimp eden, which was fascinating to my right eye (i had a cold washcloth over the left). finally, around 7:30, i dozed off again. geoff found me looking like a fight victim sprawled across the couch.

i did get a black eye patch to contain all of the tears and shedding adenovirus, but my big melon makes it kinda tight, so i haven't really worn it. mostly i just get around wearing sunglasses, but i may get to the point where i'm willing to go pirate if need be...like at night. luckily, the only thing i've gone to this weekend was an outdoor fair focused on gardening in our arid climate. i tried not to touch anything or anyone. i can just see the headlines now: pink eye outbreak traced back to highly-infective but conservation-minded garden fair participant.

sheesh. maybe pink eye will be fun again on monday

pink eye

What's so hilarious about pink eye?!

I don't know, but when I got diagnosed today, all I could do was cuss and crack up. And say "pink eye!"

PINK EYE!!

That is too darn funny.

Pink eye is like a snow day. The kind I have is SUPER CONTAGIOUS, too. Geoff could get it, my coworkers could get it, the patients at the Moores Cancer Center could get it - sheesh, my right eyeball is almost SURE to get it from my left eyeball. So, nobody wants us Pinkies around (that's what I'm calling us, we, the solitary pink-eyed people). To the clear-eyed, we Pinkies are social pariahs!

So, for fundamentally antisocial people like me, Pink eye = a bonus holiday! I HAVE to go home! (Mishka loves pink eye too.)

The best part is, besides some ocular itchiness, relentless tearing, and eyelid swelling, HECK, I feel good enough to do just about anything!

I hope pink eye never ends...

(just kidding)