I can’t See how this could happen
June 11th, 2005 at 03:34 pm in Random21 comments on the previous entry? I must say that is certainly Kick Ass.
If you’re squeamish when it comes to the ocular region, I would suggest skipping the next five paragraphs. You’ve been warned.
A few days back, I was sitting here typing when my left eye started to twitch with the all too familiar feeling of having caught a piece of dust between my eye and contact. I closed my eyes and swirled them around in a circular motion for a few seconds to try and reset my contacts, but it was useless. Whatever I had stuck in there was going to need some tears to flush it out and so I again closed my eyes and started to rub on the outside of my eyelid. After ten seconds of this, the rubbing coupled with the pain was enough to trigger my tear ducts into action and viola, I had a misty left eye. As I opened my eye and blinked in an effort to regain focus, I noticed something was off. The contact was not in place.
I could immediately feel it up behind my eyelid, but again, I wasn’t worried for this happens every so often anyways. The best way to remove it is to again close your eyes and move them in a circular motion. Since your eye is curved to begin with, the movement in one direction sweeps the contact down and when you open your eye, it hanging right there for removal and cleaning. So, I got to sweeping and was met with pitiful results. The contact was still behind my eyelid, but somehow it had moved further up and, I swear to God, almost behind my eyeball. I could literally feel it in the top corner of my eye, almost directly above my nose and this is around the time where “Oh shit, what the hell is going on” mode kicked in.
I dashed to the mirror and began lifting my eyelid, trying to figure out just what in the world was going on. This, my friends, had never happened to me before and I wasn’t too thrilled with the idea of a contact going MIA and floating around my insides. I stood in front of the mirror for a full ten minutes rubbing, swirling, and scratching and got nothing. The water works were going in full gear by this point as I had effectively irritated the living hell out of my eye, turning it into a molten fireball of redness. I could no longer feel the contact whatsoever, but I was certain it never fell out. Still, I dropped to my knees and searched the ground for a bit to make sure. My fears were soon confirmed as I found no trace of a contact whatsoever.
So here I sit, five days later, and I still have no idea what happened to that contact. From time to time I can feel a little pinch in my nasal passage, similar to the feeling you get when you have a mild cold. I swear the contact is still back in there and while I may be no medical doctor, my guess would be that it can’t be healthy for me. My guess is that one day far down the road I’m going to be blowing my nose and out pops a little contact. If so, you can expect many cool pictures and a complete recap.
And I swear to God, if one more person makes a “can you see your brain?!” joke, I’m gonna stab them with a blunt spoon.
Anyway, new batch of songs are up. Listen, enjoy, and stick around to see just what in the hell these things are for.
80 - Boxcar Racer - Letters to God
79 - Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
78 - Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
77 - Dashboard Confessional - Remember to Breathe
76 - Craig David - Fill Me In
75 - Dave Matthews Band - Grace is Gone
74 - Jason Mraz - Tonight, Not Again
73 - Shania Twain - You’ve Got a Way
72 - Marshall Tucker Band - Long Hard Ride
71 - Marshall Tucker Band - Take the Highway
cooper http://www.wonderlandornot.com
I only came here because I was reading that burned by blaghies site or something like that. To see what the hell they were whining about now. Believe me those people have nothing better to do than to actually put themselves up to vote on blogs and actually vote for others, Not to mention the fact that they are like all really old. lol
This doesn’t seem bad at all. I am on pathetic aol at a friends just returnng from the newport film fest but I’m going to check your whole blog out tomorrow when I get home.
I lived in Australia for a few years when I was very young so yeah me.
I love Mraz but only his live stuff, used to see him at a club in DC.
Dashboard I like as well.
Casey http://none
I’ve had the exact same thing happen to me before goob, and I’ve got bad news for you.
Yes, it did to the back of the eye, but I was persistent and got it out 10 mins and a bloodshot eye later.
However if you were washing it out with water there is a reasonable chance it came out then, well.. I hope for your sake it did anyway >:D.
Anyway, hope it got better, because it sounded PAINFUL AS!
Casey~
Jaime
I had the same thing once too. I actually had to have a friend dig it out, which was creepy enough on its own. It’s weird having a friend dig around up behind your eye. Luckily he was able to get just the corner of it and drag it back. Weird though. And yeah, it was like a one time event in years and years of wearing contacts!
tyler
Goob–
came here through the M’s connection… good reading here though!
Gotta say if the eye doesn’t hurt anymore you must have gotten it out, and i had the same happen, and never figured out where it went.
also.. similar vein… when i was about 10 i went to the doctor and as he was checking me out he asked if i had trouble hearing out of one ear. “Yes.” He then proceeded, in front of my absolutely mortified mother, to pull a large ball of wax out of my ear. At the center of the wax was a piece of pea gravel from the playground. It had been lodged up there for a good month, and when I couldn’t get it out myself I just forgot about it and didn’t say anything to me mum about it. couldn’t be bothered.
I used a little of the remaining Aussie lingo floating in my head in the end of the paragraph. It’s been 10 years since i’ve been there, as an exchange student in Bundaberg. (First baaaaaaad experience with alcohol was prom night, Bundy and coke is not my friend!
In 1994/5 Simpsons were HUGE. So was 90210(!) It was all Union where I was, and I was good friends with Mal Maninga’s cousins (sp?). Ask any Aussies over 25, they should know him. The previously commented upon Bundy Rum comes in a pre-mixed can with cola. Rum-and-coke-in-a-can. Weird. My name was “tyla” instead of ty-LER but i couldn’t be bothered. HS sports was strange, too. We played a game against a team that was the equivalent of jv 3rd grade girls. I had 22 points on 11-12 shooting– with 10 dunks (my one miss was also a dunk attempt.) Oh, and it was on an outdoor court. That’s high school basketball at its finest!
Dr.Pepper did quite well in Queensland, which brings up another good point about being Down Under– it is VERY regional there as far as all your likes/dislikes/observations.
Of course… that’s just my observation… i could be wrong.
Fellner
well, I’ll never get the last 30 seconds of my life back…
caitlin
hahahahahaha…i don’t wear contacts
Goob http://www.shyzer.com
Cooper, glad to see you don’t agree with the idiots complaining about Shyzer. The guy is simply sore that I’m #1 on the Blog Battles Top 50 and that he can’t even buy a win for his sorry site.
Casey, I hate you for that “painful as” comment. I will now come down to your room and kill you.
Jaime, first off I’m sending another postcard in the mail to you today. None of the other four people I mailed them to originally received them, so I’m guessing you didn’t get your either. I’m heading into town so I’m just gonna do it from the post office there instead of the one on campus. And with regards to the contact, how exactly did your friend dig it out?! I can’t even see back in there, which is why I guess you had to get a friend to do it. If the thing is still in there by the time I’m ready to leave, I think I might have to do the same.
Tyler, GO MARINERS! Now that I got that out of the way, welcome to Shyzer! Great story regarding the ear wax. There’s a story that happened years ago that I’ll be telling on Shyzer later this summer when my family and I are enjoying ourselves at the beach which involves my little brother and a sunflower seed. Needless to say, it too involves getting it lodged in places it shouldn’t be.
And the minute I read “couldn’t be bothered,” I thought to myself, “This dude’s lived in AUstralia before!!” Good work on the lingo. Your part about the rum-and-coke in a can helped me out as well, as I had forgotten to put that on the weird differences list. I’ll have to go back and add that as I too thought it was a bit odd. I have to say you’re also correct on the regional differences here. The more I talk to people who come from outside NSW, the more I realize how regional this place can be as well.
Fellner, what exactly was wrong with this post? Are you growing picky in your old age? =)
And Caitlin, you’re lucky. I can’t wait for freaking lasik. Oh, and e-mail me your address! If you don’t already have my personal e-mail address, just use Shyzer@gmail.com and I’ll give you it there.
Martin Burch http://martinburch.com
First off, you might want to call the eye doctor and get him to have a look before you go blind. Secondly, this is the best argument for not getting contacts I have ever heard. I’m getting glasses for sure.
Goob http://www.shyzer.com
Well, Martin, I’ve had contacts for almost eleven years now and I can say that this is the first time I’ve ever had this happen to me, so it’s not like this is a daily occurance. I’ve always hated glasses seeing as how they give me headaches if I wear them for longer than a few hours at a time.
caitlin
i just got the pun in the headline…nice job
meg http://justlikemeg.blogdrive.com
hahahh that is hilarious.. but soo wierd at the same time.. did you go to the doctors abu this or anything?? a contact missing in your body.. its soo wierd to think about.. lol
ahh i hope you had a good wknd.. and that the contact reveals itself sooner or later..
does it not feel wierd to stick another contact into your eye/.?. when the one in there before is missing? or are you not wearing contacts now?
Casey http://none
Hahaha goob I knew you’d pick up on that one.
I’m tempted to keep doing it to be “annoying as”.
Tyler I didn’t even realise you were using any aussie lingo, but fill me in on what “HS sports” means.
Goob http://www.shyzer.com
HS Sports = High School Sports. The difference between HS Sports here and back home is huge.
Jen http://jenanddavin.blogspot.com/
Wow, that’s just way too weird. I don’t even want to think about it. I think I may have to watch a horror film so I’m not thinking about your contact when I try to fall asleep tonight!
Tyler
Goob– you’ll have to explain that to Casey, i don’t even want to think about it with how different it was….bloody hell it was.
;P anyway, the reason why you didn’t pick up on it is because you live it…. sometime if i have time (that’ll be like, never! ugh!) i’ll write up a little post including some of the things that happened to me that were worth a laugh, then send it to goob.
anyway, wanted to see if anything had come about…
Goob http://www.shyzer.com
Tyler, check back in the morning. There should be some massive updates, seeing as how I’ve already uploaded most of them all and am just waiting on one final thing before releasing them all at once.
And Caitlin, I’m glad somebody caught the pun in the title. You always were a quick one. =)
Dani http://www.butterflydani.com/
I’m not easily creeped out, but…. *cringe*
Go..to..the..doctor.. eek.