And now I'm blind

Warning! Don't read this entry if you are my mother because it will gross you out so much that you won't be able to eat or sleep for days.

This morning Elle was sitting on the couch looking at a book and decided to leave her for 2 seconds so that I could slip into the kitchen and get myself something to eat. I come back into the room to check on her and notice that she's happily gnawing on something yellow.

What's that she's ....... Oh my god! It's my contact case! And it's open!

I rush over and grab the case out of her hands but it's too late. I can see as I'm rushing over that the contents of both sides of the case have been dumped out. And Elle has her tounge stuck into one of the well of the case.

I wrestle it away from her in the hope that maybe, somehow the contacts will still be in there safe and sound. Elle looks pleased as can be and has that "I just swallowed something" look on her face. Yes, she ate one of my contacts.

I found the other contact stuck to the top of the case but the other one is gone for good. Well, I'm sure it will show up sooner or later but I don't think I'll be wanting to use it then.

My eye!

Joseph wanted to have a snowball fight today before he went to school. Elle was alseep in her swing so I figured we could go out for a minute or two before the bus came and throw some snowballs. We tossed a few at each other and had a grand old time. Just as the bus rounded the corner Joseph threw a snowball that hit me right in the face. I turned my head at just the right time and a big chunk of snow went between my eye and my glasses. I couldn't see anything out of that eye and for one very brief, very foolish second I though "Oh my god! That snowball knocked out my eye!"

Dramatic much Jenny?

This even grosses me out!

Ok, the good news: My retina is not torn or detached. Even though my retinas are "very thin" my eyes are healthy.

The bad news: (WARNING! This is gross!) The back of my eye is coming detached from the jelly-like stuff behind it. The doctor says this happens to everyone at some point though usually not till much later in life. My eye is seperating from the jelly and the space it makes is filled in by a liquid that makes kind of a cloudy spot on my retina. The cloudy spot is what's causing the blurry spot in my vision in my right eye. The blurryness will go away after a while but for the next two months I am at an even higher risk for a tear in my retina. I have to watch for flashing lights or "floaties" or a darkness out of my right eye. I don't really have an issue with eyes but I have to admit that as the doctor was telling me about this I was getting a little sick. Something about eye-jelly doesn't sit will with me.

Between this eye thing and my strange lung collapse I'm starting to think I have some strange medical luck. I'll be the first person in recorded history to have spontaneously exploding knee caps or by diagnosed with Constant Hair On Fire Syndrome.

To sum up, the news is good but weird and gross.

Mom, this is gonna gross you out

I am totally freaking out. I have to go to the eye doctor after Joseph goes to school today because I think I might have a torn retina. My eyesight is all fuzzy out of my right eye and I keep seeing a bunch of "floaties". Yesterday for a minute I saw a bunch of flashing lights in that eye and I just wrote it off as "one of those things" but now I'm starting to get worried. I know I'm at a high risk because my eyesight is so bad and as one doctor told me, my retinas are "stetched to the limit". Ack!

I'll update later assuming I don't have to spend the next two weeks laying flat on my back not moving my eyes or whatever it is you have to do if one part of your eye becomes torn.