This sounds miserable! I hope you heal up fast and the pain abates tout de suite. It’s scary to have your eyesight impeded. May all go well with your recovery!
Thanks!
I mostly see okay through it. I’m just not opening that eye because it hurts so much, and keeping my eyelid down feels protective.
The doctor also told me that there is a higher density of sensory nerves on the surface of the eye than anywhere else on the body, and that’s why it’s so painful. It kinda reminds me of the time i burned my thumb. (I preheated a broiling pan, and then, forgetting it was hot, grabbed it. I was 24, so i didn’t even have early senility as an excuse. Just stupidity.) It wasn’t just that it hurt, it was that i simply couldn’t ignore the pain, i just kept thinking about it. There’s a big chunk of the brain that thinks about the thumb, and also, I’m guessing, the eye.
Anyway, I’m on the train home from the doctor’s office, and my husband will pick me up at the twin station.
Oh, I’m so happy you went it.
Good luck.
I am glad you went to get medical treatment @puzzlegal
Eye issues are nothing to fool around with.
I hope you start to heal and feel better very soon.
Yup I did a corneal abrasion once. Just a clumsy fingernail scratch. They are so irritating, but do clear up quick (I can’t even remember now which eye it was).
Anecdotal, but some eye injuries tend to heal themselves in very short order. I had a pretty severe eye injury when I was a child, and it healed very well. YMMV, of course.
Corneal abrasions are unpleasant but usually heal without incident within three days. Taking Tylenol or naproxen might help some. Antibiotic and lubricating drops may somewhat soothe. Everyone asks for local anesthetic drops, but these delay healing when repeatedly administered, so no one gets them. I wouldn’t recommend a patch if the accident is unlikely to be repeated; sunglasses are better if light bothers the eye though look less swashbuckling. If there is an alternative to wearing contacts (and this applies) take it.