Pink, I

The reason that yesterday was void of an entry was because I am dying from conjunctivitis, better known as pink eye.

On the Fourth of July (only a few weeks ago), I was at my girlfriend's family's party out in rural Batavia and I happened to get something in my eye. It simply felt like an eyelash or the like, so I tried rubbing it out.

That didn't work.

So I tried putting water in eye and washing it out... that made it worse.

About 20 minutes after I first noticed something in my eye, my entire eye and eyelids swelled up and hurt with the pain of a thousand suns. I went to the ER because stupid midwestern physicians don't accept my "too good for them" East coast med insurance. They gave me some antibiotic eyedrops, and they worked really well.

And then Tuesday night, after being almost 100% through with the pink eye, it felt like I had something in my eye again. Turns out, the exact same thing happened as before, and my eye swelled up really badly with the itching and everything else.

So without me being at work yesterday, I found it difficult to blog on a seldom-working dialup connection back on the homefront.