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You know how much fun an eye injury is?
No fun at all, that's how much. And apparently I can scratch up my eye pretty seriously by taking out a contact lens that had something stuck to it. As I discovered yesterday morning when I woke up with serious eye pain, and, well. I'll skip over the boring gory details, and get to the part where the optometrist told me to avoid doing anything that would exercise that eye for three days.
Like going to classes. Or reading. Or using the computer.
(Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!)
I'm trying for a compromise, because, really, missing two class days of Greek and Latin both would kill me for this semester. I spent yesterday mostly napping, then in the evening rigged up a sort of half-assed eyepatch that led to a lot of messiness without depth perception, but did let me use the computer without bugging my left eye. Then I slept in late this morning, and wore sunglasses while wandering around places today. (Attempting to climb walls without any vision correction: probably hilarious to onlookers, which fortunately there were none of.) And now I have the little plastic shade-thingy slotted in beneath my glasses, and, well. I'll try to limit my computer use. But I need to do homework, and I am not skipping class tomorrow. (Presumably if I wear sunglasses while outside, and just glasses in class, it'll be an acceptable vision-use compromise.)
Having heard from various friends who have had more serious and long-lasting eye impairment before, I am indeed grateful that this isn't worse. But dear god this is annoying.
No fun at all, that's how much. And apparently I can scratch up my eye pretty seriously by taking out a contact lens that had something stuck to it. As I discovered yesterday morning when I woke up with serious eye pain, and, well. I'll skip over the boring gory details, and get to the part where the optometrist told me to avoid doing anything that would exercise that eye for three days.
Like going to classes. Or reading. Or using the computer.
(Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!)
I'm trying for a compromise, because, really, missing two class days of Greek and Latin both would kill me for this semester. I spent yesterday mostly napping, then in the evening rigged up a sort of half-assed eyepatch that led to a lot of messiness without depth perception, but did let me use the computer without bugging my left eye. Then I slept in late this morning, and wore sunglasses while wandering around places today. (Attempting to climb walls without any vision correction: probably hilarious to onlookers, which fortunately there were none of.) And now I have the little plastic shade-thingy slotted in beneath my glasses, and, well. I'll try to limit my computer use. But I need to do homework, and I am not skipping class tomorrow. (Presumably if I wear sunglasses while outside, and just glasses in class, it'll be an acceptable vision-use compromise.)
Having heard from various friends who have had more serious and long-lasting eye impairment before, I am indeed grateful that this isn't worse. But dear god this is annoying.