A scary doctor's visit...

OK, have I told you that I don't especially care for doctors? Let's add another experience to the list from Friday. I woke up Sunday morning with a very sore, puffy, swollen right eye. I thought that Jeff had one up on me and elbowed me during sleep or I punched myself even. I had a very sore area amongst the swollenness. By Tuesday, my eye was opening OK, but with extreme pain and was pretty blurry and dry. I was having this heavy pressure headache at the back of my head, near the base of my neck too. Jeff and Logan were bugging me about going into the doctor to get it looked at. Eye drops and Advil were not cutting it. I had a doctor at one of my closings, and he said, "That's a nasty insect bite you have there." By Friday, I couldn't handle it anymore. I went into the clinic and got "Dr. No-Bedside Manner." He was a no holds barred kind of doc that said I was lucky to have my vision and that it was a poisonous bite probably from a brown recluse spider (nothing like keeping positive here). My eyeball had a film over the top of it from the bite and was not even dilating. There was that very sore area still that was opening up and actually was being dissolved by the spider poison (he figured this is where I was bit). I guess the poison stays for a month or so in your system and this bite can cause scarring. Talk about one of the weirdest things that has happened to me. They took 2 slides of ooze from the area to test it. They gave me a steroid injection and another serum shot of some sort and sent me on my way. It immediately started to feel better too. I guess I won't be heading the "Say No to Steroids" campaign anytime soon. And yes, I do talk like Arnold S. now.

'I'll be back'...

I was trying to joke around about this with the doc and he was not having any of my humor. I was asking him, "Will this get me out of work for a couple of days?", "Will I have x-ray vision in the one eye now?", "Are the steroids going to make me stronger and give me super human strength?", and "Do I look like Rhianna now?" At least the nurse chuckled a couple of times.