Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis...say WHAAAAT?
When life gives you lemons, made lemonade.....
Hey......life.......TAKE BACK THE DARN LEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I woke up friday morning ready for the weekend.....friday is my favorite day, well....payday friday is, but still, it was friday.....sigh....the weekend was almost here....
We went to Faith Fehr's birthday party friday night at Tyhee Lake....the sun was shining, the ice was gone from the lake and the weekend was off to a great start......then we got home.
My eyes felt funny, sore, like they were tired. I didn't think much of it until I woke up the next morning with ALOT of sleep in my eyelashes. I went to the bathroom to wash my face, looked in the mirror and actually GASPED. My eyes were all puffy! I didn't think it was pink-eye but went to the hospital just to make sure. The dr. there told me he thought it was allergies.
SO NOT ALLERGIES.
Sunday now........wake up and now my eyelids are puffy but again, b/c I'm vain, I put make-up on and go to church, then to some friends for lunch.
Eyes hurting.
Eyes running.
Eyes looking REALLY bad by Sunday afternoon.
I text my 'pod' to tell them I think I DO have pink-eye so no coffee Monday morning. My lovely friend Tanya goes on line, looks up a 'natural' remedy and brings over a sprig of an aloe vera plant for me to rub on my now ogre like eyelids.
So? I do.
It's gross but whatever works....I mean, it's NATURAL right?
I wake up Monday morning and try to open my eyes...but I can't. They have been glued together by an aloe vera-eye booger combo....and it's bad.
Commence crying.
The pain is bad, and it looks even worse. I am now officially part of 'Shrek's' family.
I pry my eyes open, hoping my eyelashes stay in tact, and reach for the phone. Time to go to the eye doctor. STAT.
Rush to eye doctor, they get me in right away.....I take off my glasses and Dr. Lester says to me 'WOW, that is the worst case of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis I have seen in a while'
It is NOT pink-eye. It is some evil cousin of pink-eye that makes your eye sockets hurt like crazy and makes your eyes run with some gross combo of green tears and yellow guck. It is viral and there is NO treatment. It has to run it's course. OH...I forgot the best part....in order to make SURE it was EKC, the Dr. had to peel my swollen, painful eyelids UP and look underneath them. I've pushed three babies out, and trust me, this pain was right up there. Dr. Lester tells me I'm quarantined. No teaching piano, no going to the school and in fact they had to disinfect the office I was in. I'm contagious for 7 - 9 days. I'm a prisoner in my own home.
And that's not the worst part.
I'm out of chocolate.
NO JOKE.
Hey......life.......TAKE BACK THE DARN LEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I woke up friday morning ready for the weekend.....friday is my favorite day, well....payday friday is, but still, it was friday.....sigh....the weekend was almost here....
We went to Faith Fehr's birthday party friday night at Tyhee Lake....the sun was shining, the ice was gone from the lake and the weekend was off to a great start......then we got home.
My eyes felt funny, sore, like they were tired. I didn't think much of it until I woke up the next morning with ALOT of sleep in my eyelashes. I went to the bathroom to wash my face, looked in the mirror and actually GASPED. My eyes were all puffy! I didn't think it was pink-eye but went to the hospital just to make sure. The dr. there told me he thought it was allergies.
SO NOT ALLERGIES.
Sunday now........wake up and now my eyelids are puffy but again, b/c I'm vain, I put make-up on and go to church, then to some friends for lunch.
Eyes hurting.
Eyes running.
Eyes looking REALLY bad by Sunday afternoon.
I text my 'pod' to tell them I think I DO have pink-eye so no coffee Monday morning. My lovely friend Tanya goes on line, looks up a 'natural' remedy and brings over a sprig of an aloe vera plant for me to rub on my now ogre like eyelids.
So? I do.
It's gross but whatever works....I mean, it's NATURAL right?
I wake up Monday morning and try to open my eyes...but I can't. They have been glued together by an aloe vera-eye booger combo....and it's bad.
Commence crying.
The pain is bad, and it looks even worse. I am now officially part of 'Shrek's' family.
I pry my eyes open, hoping my eyelashes stay in tact, and reach for the phone. Time to go to the eye doctor. STAT.
Rush to eye doctor, they get me in right away.....I take off my glasses and Dr. Lester says to me 'WOW, that is the worst case of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis I have seen in a while'
It is NOT pink-eye. It is some evil cousin of pink-eye that makes your eye sockets hurt like crazy and makes your eyes run with some gross combo of green tears and yellow guck. It is viral and there is NO treatment. It has to run it's course. OH...I forgot the best part....in order to make SURE it was EKC, the Dr. had to peel my swollen, painful eyelids UP and look underneath them. I've pushed three babies out, and trust me, this pain was right up there. Dr. Lester tells me I'm quarantined. No teaching piano, no going to the school and in fact they had to disinfect the office I was in. I'm contagious for 7 - 9 days. I'm a prisoner in my own home.
And that's not the worst part.
I'm out of chocolate.
NO JOKE.
posted by elliott5inbc at 6:31 p.m.
5 Comments:
Wow...
I'll bring you chocolate!
Don't even joke about it....
I love mint chocolate
I love kit kat
I love coffee crisp
Take your pick!
Hope you don't mind if the quasi hypochondriac DJ doesn't come visit you...my eyes are itchy just from reading your post...
Oh my goodness!! Terrible.
I had that once - I likened it more to Shallow Hall putting that vaseline on his eyeballs.
Get better soon!
Michelle! That WAS a disappointment but your excuse for missing is EXTREMELY valid... I am so sorry for what you've been going through! Heal in time for the next time I come to visit? Take care.
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