Jul. 23, 2007
A Flash of the Future
Or perhaps a blurred vision of it....
For an extremely S-T-U-P-I-D reason (is there any other kind?), me being me, always on hyper drive, stuck my car key in my eye! And, gee, I've been dealing with a hole in my cornea all last week.
As if I had nothing else better to do.
Just say, "Yeow!" already. The guys and I had been into Augusta at the first of the week; after stop number one, we were out the door and ready to roll onto stop number two........but not before I had a completely detached "stupid moment" while trying to put on my sunglasses.
Talk about your klutz moment and then some.
I was holding my car keys in the same right hand that I picked up my sunglasses with and shoved them onto my face...........except the car key hit first.
After numerous times of thinking I was okay and had it together - not to mention the session of being led around Sam's Club by the guys as if their mother was Helen Keller - I finally decided that maybe an eye doctor would be in order. Sure enough - I had jabbed a hole in my right eye's cornea.
Many drops of numbing fluid, anti-biotic drops and a clear contact lense for a bandaid later, I was good to go....
....until the next morning when I awoke with an eye that looked like it should belong to Rocky Balboa and a rash all over......
The eye doc took out the contact lense last Friday and I have more liquids to drop in my eye - but the hole is about 98% healed.
But the "flash of the future" came when I had poked my eye. I was sitting in the driver's seat of the truck, whimpering, when our 13 yrear old son, Alex, who was the sitting co-pilot and being all "Alan-like" saying in his all manly changing voice, "Okay, okay, just open your eye and let me look..........."
Time stood still and In the blink of an eye (or rather a jab....) he was turning into a full blown "Y" chromosome man............it was an Allie McBeal moment and I could somehow imagine the scene when I'm 90 and my sons are fussing at me for doing something stupid (again).
Y'all have a great week ~ and keep your car keys "waist level" at all times!
Keep up with all the goings on at Jacobs Farm this summer over at South of the Gnat Line and Beekeeper Dreams ~ Cya!
