Poke in the eye

Ouch! being all thumbs I managed to injure my eye last week.

The wifey has been on a home improvement kick and doing LOTS of work (while I do a lot of standing around grumbling she is kicking butt and making our home look really, really nice). The latest big project was taking up old carpeting in the kitchen and laying down new tiles. Yeah I know carpeting in a kitchen is pretty strange. Even stranger was underneath were a lot of old tiles, but just around the edges and corners of the room. We didn't want to try and lay the new tile over the old especially since it wasn't a full flat layer so the old had to come up first.

I guess I'm even less of the handyman then I thought I was because while taking up the old vinyl tile with a flat chisel and hammer I caught myself dead square in the eye with a bit of muck and sharp tile. Let me tell you folks, you really do not want 30 year old tile in your eye. As foriegn bodies go, it's up there with rusty nails and summy pond water. Uhhhh yuck!?!

I immediatly flushed the eye, but could tell I had scratched it pretty good. The worst part was the feeling of having something in your eye when there really isn't anything. It's worse than Chinese water torture. My eye kept watering and I wanted to rub it soooo bad. 24 hours later and 2 different doctors and I had the (good?) news that it was a bad scratch called a corneal abrasion, but it would heal fairly quickly. The bad news was I had to put this antibiotic ointement in my eye 4 times a day that had the look and feel of vaseline. Not fun. Lesson learned - WEAR GOGGLES YA DUMMY!

Fortunately the healing is almost 100% now and I'm back to being able to see again and can actually stay on my side of the road when I drive for a change ;)

Unfortunately for my wife I acted like a big baby and mopped around for the rest of the week all squinty eyed and irritable so she ended up doing like 99% of the work on the floor herself. I suck.

Oh well I will make up for it with public humiliation and lots of small gifts. That *usually* works. Either that or I could let her punch me, but I just got full use of my vision back so I better stick with the gifts.

I guess it goes without saying that I pretty much got zero artwork done all of last week and that really DID suck.