Well, Eye Swear!!

My friend....I'll call her Irma....was having problems with her left eye.  It was 'tearing' constantly.  So much so, that she'd rubbed it raw, just drying the tears,  at the outer corner of her eye.  Finally, she decided to see a doctor.  Fortunately, the condition is somewhat common, and very much correctable.  Surgery was scheduled. 

Now,  Irma is the sort of person that does NOT take to anesthetics well.  They make her do crazy things.... like singing the National Anthem....LOUDLY.... and encouraging others to please join in......or hugging all the staff when they come into her room, as if they are long, lost relatives!  Most of her antics are harmless...but her husband stays closeby, just to make sure they stay that way!  

Irma came through the surgery without a hitch, looking just a little worse for wear, but she had weeks of fun with the black eye the surgery had given her.  Kept telling people her husband had punched her. (He would NEVER!!) Then going on to comment how "they oughta see the shape HE was in!"

Finally, the day came for the followup doctor's visit.  Everything checked out OK, and the doctor removed the "drainage tube" that had been inserted into her tear duct during the procedure.  Irma said that tube was about as fine as a human hair, and about three inches long!  (Medical procedures are amazing, aren't they??)

Irma was given a clean bill of health & sent on her way.  All the traces of the black eye were gone by this time.  She did come home with one concern, however.  She says that NOW, everytime she blows her nose....air shoots out her eye!!  I'm sure it's only a temporary thing, but did encourage her to call her doctor to discuss it. 

She assured me she would.....right after her birthday.  (Irma normally celebrates her birthday with the ladies of the Garden Club)  I asked what her birthday had to do with calling her doctor.  She explained that she couldn't WAIT to see the look on their faces when she blows out those birthday candles with her EYE!!

I'd like to see that myself!