Nothing like a family trip to the ER with a corneal abrasion to spice things up . . .
Not much to tell, since I don’t know how it happened. I suspect it was a trip to a local beach yesterday — very windy — and a piece of grit somehow put itself in a position to descend into my left eye four hours later. Diagnosis was quick and relatively painless and the linked article explains what they did and why. Sometimes medicine seems quite low-tech: paint the surface with this dye and look for reflections/shadows/anomalies. No radiation or electromagnetic devices required. And to some degree it’s more comforting that way, more human.
So lots of irrigation, some funky stains in the eye (makes everyone else look that they have jaundice), and some take-home meds (antibiotic and Vicodin [roll on, search queries!]). Oh, and they felt compelled to give me a tetanus shot <grumble>. I think I need the pain meds for that more than the injury.