feeling california, looking minnesota
Written by patty on March 14th, 2009
“Week two of my double pink eye infection. Going to dr now,” I texted Joe.
From 3000 miles away came the hilarious response. “You must look like a lemur.”
A few years ago, I became exceptionally susceptible to pink eye. I had it 5 times within 3 months. That was before we changed swim clubs. ‘Nuff said.
I’ve forgotten more about pink eye than most people ever know. D’ja know there are two kinds? Bacterial and viral. Most doctors treat bacterial. A good ophthamologist can hook you up with ‘roids if you have the viral kind; this will help you look less like a heroin addict coming off a three-day bender . D’ja know the viral kind is routinely a secondary infection following a common cold? D’ja know you can pick up the bacterial kind from certain swimming establishments with overheated pool water and no attention to detail when it comes to its pool chemicals? D’ja know it can take approximately for freaking ever for a case of viral pink eye to go the fuck away? Well, I do. And now you do too.
What seems like a million years ago but was really about two weeks, my younger son met me in the driveway to tell me he saw one of my swimming buddies. He relayed the message “Tell Patty we miss her and to get her ass back to the pool.” I’m pretty sure he used that exact language.
Sounds great. Really. It does. ‘Xcept I can’t swim with a double pink eye infection.
The realities of Eyes Under Siege: Week Four are settling in. I am not blessed with the foot-long eyelashes all of the other humans in my house enjoy. A little mascara would go a long way. This little bottle of ‘roids (which cost sixty dollars, and I have good prescription coverage!) is drying up fast. And I still look like a lemur.
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Sorry about the pink eye. I kmow the story about pools and upkeep all to well.
If you want you can E mail me with the details of the pool Patty, I would be interested…Of course we may have already given them grief….. You might be surprised how many place do NOT know what they are doing!
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And yes since getting back to work, I have been on kinda of a tear!
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So it’s not the Magic 8 ball that is making you a hermit, but the red eyeball(s). Got it.
Hope you’ll be better soon!
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I’d rather have a toothache,an ear infection, a slipped disc and a broken rib all at the same time rather than to have double pink eye! Sending you healing thoughts…