Aye! Are ye transfixed by me Blood Eye?
It’s the strangest thing. I can’t feel it and it doesn’t affect my vision. It just looks gruesome. It’s called a Subconjunctival hemorrhage. It seems that I was a victim of a violent sneeze, although it seemed like a normal sneeze to me. It’s actually much better that is was a few days ago when most of the white on one side of my right eye was completely red. It’s still pretty shocking.
I spent the first few days answering “what happened to your eye?” with a crazy story about protecting Kim and the kids from unschooled ruffians at the St Louis Airport. The story would end with me saying, “… so I walked up to the tall skinny kid that was being the most mouthy. I’m thinking to myself, I haven’t been in a fight since high school. I step between the kid and my wife, and when I look him in the eye (I ball my hand into a fist and shake it a little for dramatic effect) I sneeze, and apparently broke a blood vessel in my eye.” Then I let them know that it really happened in the morning at my Dad’s house and there were not any angry teens.
I was also conducting a little sociological experiment. Some people would look at the eye and not ask about it. I wonder if I can truly trust those people. I mean, are they the kind of people that wouldn’t tell you if you had a big booger hanging out of your nose? I asked one guy why he didn’t mention my eye, and he said he didn’t want to be rude. He figured that I had pink eye, and didn’t want to question my hygiene.
It should go away in a few weeks. Meanwhile, try and steer clear of the transfixing gaze of me Blood Eye!
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January 7th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Freak!
“How’ya gonna play with one eye?!”
Z-)
January 12th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
don’t ever trust people like that one guy! but I think you knew that already. p.s. wash your hands every so often and that won’t happen
February 18th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Let me just assure all of you that my eye is back to normal, and I am much less inclined to speak like a pirate.