I’ve had this done some 25 times now. No big deal any more. Often less after-effect than a trip to the dentist (who’s along the same street).
The first time, I told the doctor “I’ll just close my eyes real tight, so I can’t see the needle coming at me, and you tell me when it’s over.” He said “that’s not really how it works.” But he has you ‘look down and to the right’, so you don’t see the needle. And you’re numbed up so you don’t feel it at all.
To elaborate on my experience: My eye Doctor diagnosed ankylosing spondilitius because the iris sticks to something and the eye became inflamed. This was a reoccurring problem until an MD prescribed an expensive drug.
But I digress.
Lady eye Doctor:“My goodness, your eye is red!”
Me: “Your parents bought you books and sent you to school, and that is your diagnosis?”
LED: “Looks like I’m going to have to take this great big needle full of steroids and poke it into your eye.”
Jesus! “Bitten in the eye by a snake” isn’t a phrase you come across very often. You’re lucky it wasn’t venomous!
It was actually a pet ;). That’s how you get bit in the eye by a snake. Handle an already kinda cranky snake too casually while it is about to shed and feeling vulnerable. I was showing him off to a friend because he was a pretty thing despite his slightly iffy temperament and immediately on picking him up from his hidey-hole I noticed he was just about to shed and thought to myself “uh-oh, he’s about to shed I should probably but him ba-”. Ker-whap - right in the face. I later divested myself of reptilian pets - they’re pretty but even the easy-going ones don’t do much and it was getting to be more hassle than it was worth.
But it makes for a good story at dinner parties when people start going on about their various scars and mishaps :D.
My daugher managed to catch a stick with her eye. Yup - pierced. Upshot is that her eye (and vision) are fine, and in fact recovered quite quickly. So long as there’s no serious structural damage, the eye can recuperate pretty well.
Arrr, it was the first day I had me hook.