I’ve had a very rough day. I was supposed to be able to paint one or two rooms today thru this weekend, but the way things have gone, there’s no way.
Asa, just turned 5-year-old is on a rampage of disobedience and no matter what I do, he’s behind me doing something horrid. The boys room is moving to downstairs and the office to their old room. They have been so very messy and disorganized, it’s a nightmare to motivate them, any old day, lest today. Add in Asa’s horrid behaviour and well, I’m sacked. Plus I’ve got some allergy thing, or thought I did, then I went and finally looked into the mirror at the eye that’s bugging me and saw I have a fleck on the surface of my eye, right over my pupil, it’s on top but won’t move off. I’ve put Saline in like crazy since then. It’s very irritating and driving me bonkers. I have no recourse but to pray, use saline solution, and wait. So if you have a mind to, please pray that God will clear the whatever-it-is-fleck off of my eye and that there is no damage and won’t be any damage and that it will totally resolve very soon.
I have no idea what it could be, but it could be glass … I had to pick up some glass that broke in the basement who-knows-when, a picture frame, today. But I can’t be sure there was anything to it that was that small, or that could have gotten in my eye … oh but it’s just frustrating to not know and not be sure about it at all, just know there’s something there that is disturbing normal feelings, it’s a grating feeling and my sinuses are going nuts from it. So my fantisy is that it’s glass or something rough or prickly and very small but big enough to be seen and just stick there on my eyeball. Ick. It’s like any old allergy thing, the eye feels dry and sticky and itchy and if it just gets washed out it’ll feel better. Like if there’s a bug stuck in there, or sand or dirt. But this is something right on the top and it won’t get off. URG. My eyelid isn’t happy about it either.
Frank isn’t here. He’s out for another day or so. I don’t know this is an emergency, it might be, but might not be. In any case I am not one to run to anyone medical for help so soon unless it’s something super bad and all that. So I wait.
Really it’s just horrid since I can see it, but can’t get it off. Touching the eye with anything can be dangerous, but not that, just plain too sensitive to stand. The eye blinks naturally and it’s so hard not to, to put something up to it. I used to wear contacts and had no problem putting THEM in, or taking THEM out, but that’s totally different, a thing that slides and all that, but I do recall times I went to sleep without taking them out and without moisturizing them first, and in the morning they’d be stuck on my eyeballs or up inside under the lid all crumpled up and I’d have to peel them off, but they worked differently, of course, than this mysterious fleck, since they could hydrate with saline and then unfurl themselves more easily and they had edges to get anyhow, whereas this thing is a tiny fleck in comparison, but big enough to be very irritating and tempting to pluck off with SOMETHING, but what? Chewing gum wad? Bread dough (unbaked)? Something to put there and grab it. Hmmm. Ideas welcomed. See now, I can’t tell if it sticks out of my eye how, or what since my eye is a global curve, of course. Self-examine only shows me that maybe it does, feeling it, it sure does have presence above the level of the eyeball, but is is only smack down and stuck on, or is it a wedge into my eyeball with an edge sticking UP. Hmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmm. This is the biggest thing that has made me go Hmmmm.
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How about a small piece of scotch tape doubled over on your finger? Very lightly touched to the speck…
Bread dough? LOL 😀
Does it hurt or just irritate? Does it affect your vision?
Praying it resolves for you soon. It would drive me batty too.
It’s only hurting my eyelid, more like an irritating burning kind of hurt, which makes me think it’s got “edge” to it, so … for what that’s worth …
It doesn’t affect my vision, as far as I can tell. To put it this way, my vision isn’t perfect, I used to wear contacts but quit and only wear my glasses sometimes, like to watch a movie or see the computer screen if it’s farther than a foot or so from my face if I’m reading somethng on it.
The last year or more I’ve let my eyes adjust to wear an older pair of glasses, less strength, and get along with none on. It’s worked out well. But when I have allergies everythings a bit fuzzier than “normal” for me, so right now, it’s kind of that sort of thing, everythings irritating and I don’t have my glasses on when I feel itchy sticky from allergies.
So hmmmm. about the tape, I’ll try that. Thank you SO VERY MUCH for your prayers!
OOOH Thank you soooooo much Tamara!!!!!! You win the Smartie-Pants-Award for 2005!!! That’s a compliment, BTW, you are SMART, Intuitive, Inventive, Motivative!!!
I got Scotch Utility Tape (figure it’s stickier than “gift tape” but it’s the only one I picked up from the shelf, so who knows! 🙂 )
I got a piece, looked at my eye, put the tape around my finger end, and then pooked the tape out more once I started, to see if it could stick and well, it didn’t, nothing moved. So I looked and did it again, and was able to pull my eyelid up to NOT BLINK, and I tried getting close enough to scrape it if it was edgy without scraping my eye. I tried a few passes and was going to get more intensive when, *BLINK* -not my eye blinking- but that fast it was just magically gone. I don’t know what it was and where it went but it’s gone. Praise the Lord it feels much better, just the goopy after effects needing to clear up, as far as it seems.
It was awesome, for a few hours there it was, and wouldn’t go away no matter what I did, then with tape it just vanished, not right away, but suddenly it did. So it must have been wedged into my eye surface a bit, it’s the action I was using that would have drug it out, so I’m sure my eye surface has a bit of healing to do, but it’s supposed to be able to do that easily, from what I remember reading about eyes in the past.
All in all, right now I just feel really like it’s an allergy, but that major burning horrible irritation is totally gone.
Thank you so much for your excellent idea. I was thinking along those lines, but didn’t get to the same point, so I am happy, oh so happy you visited me tonight!
Can’t you tell I’m on cloud 9 from this? Whooo HOOO!
Thank you Lord for Tamara, and if you can show her an extra measure of blessing these next days, when she needs it, please do reward her kindly for helping a fellow Christian friend out of a tight spot. Thank you for sending her to me tonight, and for guiding us both with the right information and actions to clear that thing off of my eye. I love you dearly God, and thank you for your blessings and the lessons you give us to learn from our everyday lives. May we glorify you in everything we do! In Jesus precious name, Amen!
BLESS YOUR HEART!!! Oh, I’m so glad that whatever-it-was disappeared! How freaky, and how smart of Tamara to think of Scotch tape, and how brave you were to try it!
Wow.
LOL Oh Sister, I’m so glad it worked for you!!! 😀 I’ve only been able to catch up in snatches here and there over the weekend/yesterday…so I was thinking about you a lot!
How is it feeling now?
I had a glass fleck in my eye once…ooooowwweee! It was stuck between the eyeball and lower eyelid. I was able to use the corner of a tissue bunched up a bit to scoop it out. It wasn’t in there too long but long enough to cause quite a bit of pain and soreness that lasted for days. 🙁 Bleh. I felt your pain! LOL
Tamara, it felt so much better when I got it off. It was my eyelid that hurt so much, and it still hurt afterward, but nothing like it had when the fleck was there. It was immense relief when the fleck came off with the tape. My eyelid underside was raw feeling, but that was nice compared with the horrible grating stinging pulling of it all before! 🙂
It took a couple of days to feel more better, I had allergy stuff going on the whole time, and maybe that helped to cushion it a bit, draw my attention away … in any case it’s not noticeable at all now. My eyelid edges were very very red the day and the next and next after, the afflicted eye, that is.
Kelly, Bravery is only doing what one has to do in spite of circumstances. 🙂 It’s easy to be brave, really, when the time comes for you to have to, it’s easy! 🙂