Friday was my turn to visit the emergency room. Before anyone panics, let me explain.
I was at work on Thursday when Paul told me that he wasn’t at work because his tree fell down in his back yard. It took out his power line, his shed, and his fence. The pictures show this better than I can explain it. The first of the three legs of the tree had fallen a couple of months ago and when Paul had somebody come out to look at the rest of the tree, they said it was stable. Yeah…
So this leads us to Friday. I’m at work and Paul is home again because the tree people are coming over to take care of the mess and take down the rest of the tree. I thought it would be nice to bring Paul lunch and come over to watch the workers do the tree removal. On may way into Paul’s house, I felt like I got something in my eye. Granted, the wood chipper was running on the side of Paul’s garage, but I was nowhere near it. Turns out, the wind was just right and it blew a wood chip into my left eye. I immediately went into Paul’s bathroom to try to flush my eye with saline and then water. Nothing was getting rid of the sensation that I had something in there. In a fair amount of pain, I managed to drive myself to the emergency department at Highland Hospital. After only an hour wait I was treated. My cornea had been torn from approximately the one o’clock to four o’clock position along with a bunch of smaller tears. I was given an antibiotic eye drop and told to call Dinesh K. Chawla, M.D. for a follow-up appointment.
When I called his office, they said he’d be out of town early next week but they could see me immediately. What luck! I managed to drive the short distance to his office from the hospital and he took me right away. Not only did he put a cocktail of drops in my eye, he patched it and told me to get a follow-up appointment with him, which is this Friday at 3:15PM. Jen and Nicky had to come pick me up from his office and I left the Vibe there overnight.
Jen called our friends to see if they could come help me take care of Nicky yesterday while she was at work. Not only did Amber and Braden come over in the morning, they also retrieved our Vibe for us. Then, when they couldn’t stay past the early afternoon, our friends Kris and Ang showed up and spent the afternoon and evening with us. I was so greatful since I was in a fair amount of pain.
I’ve got the eye patch off now and my vision is slowly getting better. It’s still blurry in my left eye but I should be back to normal before my appointment on Friday. Things could have gone much worse. I’m truly grateful for my friends, family, and health care workers who helped me throughout this situation.