Swollen Eye

I work with little kids so I'm not surprised at the number of colds I get.
Those sneezes right in the face do me in.

I now know how nurses get used to gross sick people without retching themselves. They have to ignore sickness in order to work with it each day.

At school sneezes and coughs directly in my face are taken in stride. I have forged a steel will of denial. Don't think about it!! Don't think about it!!!"

My little dears really do try to cough into their elbow. Congrats to whoever thought that one up. It's easy to turn a head to an elbow in one swift movement.

So today I sport a puffed up red, red eye.
Not the kids' fault!

Maybe I did get the cold from them, but my simple dustmite allergies explode during a miserable pollen season so I don't know what is what! I've been using inhalers since winter when I first couldn't breathe and Dr. Gross told me to keep on as a preventative until summer.

Suddenly in one weird moment I'm stuffy and the next my eye is swollen and red as I've ever seen it, fluid running like a left-on-hose. Itching and aching, sore and grotesque! A ride to the Dr. (not Gross this time), a diagnosis of allergic reaction, a wait for Rx's and off to bed.

What fun on my weekend! I'm sleeping, watching tv, dripping drops into my eye and sleeping some more. Oh, and EATING!

Starve a fever and feed a cold? Is that the old saying? Whatever, I'm feeding!

T.V. Great stuff on T.V.

walrus'

seals

whales

rattlers

meercats

horses

mountain lions

There is a lot of information on the Animal Planet.

Even the reruns of The Crocodile Hunter.

Westerns, lots of horses, lots of good riding.

The actors must take lessons.

Comedies, how many times can we watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? Or "Superstar" with Mary Katherine Gallagher? Or "Groundhog Day"?

Dramas are ok if they are excellent, often Masterpiece theater will suffice.

Avoid the News at all costs!!!

Except for the Hollywood news.

Rosie McDonald and Simon Cowell are ok, but I'd rather hear about Paul Newman.

I wait for said eye to settle down. Some swelling is clearing up. Can I go to school tomorrow? Seeing someone with a messed-uped eye doesn't scare for long, does it? I can just hear the exclamations, "Ewww, gross, Mrs. H. What happened to your gross eye?"

A bug bite.

Keep it simple.