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Eye Sore
11:00 AM, Tuesday, 16 October, 2007
As a particularly young bride (there are a full five years between my husband and I!) I realise that I have a difficult and tough life ahead of me. As my husband ages I will remain young and beautiful, even ravishing, and references will be made to Anna Nicole Smith (but with a nicer bum and less cleavage), among others.
I had my first taste of palliative care on Sunday, when Yehia got dust stuck in his eye. Forcing his head back over the bathtub and pouring a jug of water over his face did not help. Pulling on his eyelids and squirting eyedrops in did not help. Telling him to get over it did not help.
Forced to get on a tram (nobody vacated the "special needs" seat for my dear husband) and go to the Eye and Ear Hospital, I led him by the arm down the street because the bit of dust was forcing him to look out the corner of his eye and trip over the things that were in front of his eye. At the hospital the triage nurse flipped his eyelid inside out and wiped it with a cotton bud . The dust was gone, and the life-threatening situation averted.
On our way home we bought Vietnamese food.
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Comments
It was a rather large microscopic dust particle I tell you!
Posted by: yehia | October 16, 2007 1:45 PM
It might pay not to make fun of the said affliction in public...however, I am glad that the large microscopic particle is no longer a bother...
Posted by: Susanna | October 17, 2007 9:05 AM
I'm not making fun of it. Yehia made history with the largest microscopic particle wiped out of an eye with a cotton bud. I'm recording it for the ages.
Posted by: Carolyn | October 17, 2007 9:13 AM