I admire the OP’s going to get her eye checked out. The tip upthread to clean eyelashes with baby shampoo was new but worth doing for me.
I’m glad you’re feeling better.
so glad your pain has gone down/away! I can only imagine how bad that felt. I sometimes get paper cuts on my tongue - WTH - but on your EYE, yikes.
(no, I don’t know why I am apparently flailing around with paper when my tongue is out 
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Licking envelopes.
I was going to suggest a warm (hot-ish) compress. I’ve had corneal erosions over the years and that’s the only thing that gives me relief (temporary relief).
Except to someone with Hansen’s disease.
Hope this will be but a transient issue, puzzlegal!
Your physician likely understands that corneal abrasions are trivial, but that many other conditions can result in pain, red eyes, watering and unpleasantness. Some of these possiblities can be nasty, so getting things checked out with a slit lamp is not unwise. Even corneal abrasions might get infected, depending on the cause (not infrequently an accidental baby or animal scratch).
The blood supply to the scalp is so generous very few scalp wounds get infected, because bacteria get washed out.
Or snake bite.
Haven’t seen that. Baby scratching Mom’s eye by accident while feeding or whatever is pretty common. But perhaps mother is Medusa.
Well, exactly - it’s the sort of thing we all go through eventually 
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So when I was college-age I used to own several pet snakes (I no longer do, they’re interesting but not very responsive pets). Most were North American natives, but the one exotic I had was a Chinese king rat snake. They’re handsome devils, but they do have a reputation for sometimes being nervous. Mine could be a little spicy, but generally tolerated handling okay.
However one day an acquaintance was over and me and my then roommate were giving them a little tour. I went to show them this one, but as I reached in and picked it up out from under its hiding place I noticed it was literally just about to shed. Which is not great because they are semi-blind and can be very defensive in that state. As I was re-adjusting his little hidey-hole in its tank with one hand preparatory to putting him back, I was holding him up at face level with the other. Mistake. While I was distracted he lashed out and hit me open mouthed in the eye. They have small but very sharp teeth and a couple penetrated my eyelid (which closed in time) and went through into the sclera (that word was on my mind - I meant to say detached retina in my earlier post) beneath. I immediately dumped him in the tank, clapped my hand to my eye and calmly excused myself. My roommate and acquaintance didn’t even notice, but I was bleeding like a stuck pig 
. I actually didn’t experience much pain for whatever reason.
It was a very impressive-looking wound with half my eye turning dark, hence the short-lived nickname at work. It’s a pity I didn’t take a picture for posterity. But it healed astonishingly quickly.
Yeah, that will take a bit longer to go away. Be careful about absentmindedly trying to rub it. 
No, he explicitly was concerned when i said that i thought i saw a small rip in the surface membrane.
It was clearly mechanical damage to the eye, because it happened suddenly, when i leaned in towards a bookcase and a hot my eye against a manila envelope, the sharp edge that you’d folks over to seal. I quite literally had a papercut on my eye. So, basically, a corneal abrasion.
It’s the ripped membrane that the ophthalmology resident treated, too. She said she was worried it would catch on something and the rip would spread, so she carefully removed the loose bit with a sterile swab.
Fair enough. But it’s hard to know what is really going on without using fluorescein drops and coloured light. The concern is for scarring or swelling interfering with healing. But this is unlikely to be significant for a superficial wound, if the abrasion is small, say under 5% of the cornea (unless it is also deep). The link below discusses the issue in more detail, including problems when abrasions are in the 25-50% range (by area).
Also, while it may seem obvious if the pain starts right after a known blow, that must be the cause and the only thing going on. And usually that is true. But it isn’t always true, and good doctors know this. Occasionally there is more than one problem, especially with contact lens users, diabetics and suchlike.
Anyway, am pleased things have improved.
My guess is that he was concerned it might be large or deep, as i claimed i could see it.
Of course, I’m nearsighted, and can see all sorts of little details. I’m pretty sure it was less than 5% of the cornea, although not a lot less than that. The doctor who peered at my eye spent some time deciding whether or was deep or not, but I’m pretty sure it was superficial, just a rip to the membrane on the surface. That’s not something i could tell by looking at it myself, though. There might have been damage to the layer below that.
I can no longer see any damage. I’m impressed at how fast eyes heal.
And thanks for the link. I would warn squeamish readers not to click on it. 
I would imagine it’s a strong selection evolution trait.
“Look out for that sabre-tooth cat!”
“What cat? Where— Augh! Get it off!”