I went to to Optometrist on Thursday to get my eye exam and a new pair of glasses since it has been a few years. Nice doctor, went smoothly. Today I went for the first ride of the year. Dog was very happy and got to race another dog and win. About in the middle of the ride there is some semi technical terrain. In places it is over grown. Well in this one spot I was focusing on the roots and stump and missed the mostly dead bush on my right.
Next thing you know my glasses are kind of off kilter and there is a small twig sticking out of my eye. That was weird, I could feel it coming out from between my eyelids. So I pulled it out. I am in a bit of a panic here, did not really want to be blind in one eye. When I pulled it out I could tell it was in there a little bit but not real deep. Just deep enough I could feel it pull out. So I covered my eye and started the walk out.
After a bit my eye stopped being a complete spigot and my nose wasn't running so much so I ventured out and opened my eye a bit. I could see but there was a blurry spot in the middle. Felt much better at this point. Managed to ride most of the way by keeping the one eye closed. By the time I got out to parking lot I could mostly see out of that eye.
Went to urgent care and they referred me to the local emergency room. The Emergency room flushed my eye, looked at it with many lights and machines and stated, not to bad. Turns out the twig went up under my eye lid, scratched my cornea a little, buggered the white part of my eye and the under part of my upper eye lid. Not to bad. In the quick vision test they gave me the right eye under performed a bit. See the eye Doc on Monday.
Was a beautiful day out and the trails were in really good shape. Probably stay home tomorrow.
Here's to sweat in your eye (not twigs)
