Misery Thy Name Is .. Pink Eye >.<

I have been suffering with yet one more nuisance ailment that is utterly miserable.

For the past 3 weeks I've had a particularly nasty bout of viral pink eye.

It started with a week of itchy eyes .. and constantly cleaning my contacts as they just seemed to ever more frequently get smeared. I thought it was that my eyes didn't like the new contact lens solution I'd been forced to switch to as the one I've used for a few years now is not gonna be made anymore .. leaving me in the position of having to find something new that my eyes will like. *cries*

But it got progressively worse .. and probably made worse as I just kept on wearing my lenses .. with my best friend commenting that my left eye was looking swollen as we returned from a nice lunch out.

It STILL didn't occur to me that there was a problem until about 5 days after when my eyes turned red and watery and ... yucky .. that it finally dawned that *something* else might be happening.

Antibiotic drops didn't help ..so not bacterial.

Antihistamine didn't help .. so not allergy related.

Leaving ..... viral .. and a particularly nasty viral at that .. and .. of coure .. absolutely NOTHING that can be done except ride it out .. and keep the contacts OUT idiot!!

About the seventh day of it I awoke to great sacks of fluid ringed under my eyes .. yeah .. great ... :\

I spent the next half hour online sobbing to my friend Alan .. bless his heart .. and making a bad situation look far worse for the effort too.

I sat for hours with chilled chamomille tea bags on my eyes .. there's a sight for the famiy .. and finally searched online and found a concoction of 1 Tablespoon of organic coconut oil (I used Omega) mixed smooth with a dozen drops of Thursday Plantation tea tree oil. This I smeared a tiny dab across my lash line and let it work its way into my eyes. You might think it'd burn but it was cooling and soothing and by the next day my eyes were feeling much better .. and have steadily improved each day since faithfully using that.

I'm STILL not fully healed .. my eyes are only slightly pinkish .. the swelling nearly all gone .. and my eyes are not oozing copious amounts of .. guck .. all night now .. though I suspect I am still contagious as they do a bit .. so all symptoms are not completely gone.

My bedding and pillow cases are frequently washed .. and I've been absolutley rabid about .. several times a day .. Clorox wiping wherever I've been .. because I would HATE for anyone else to catch this .. especially so close to Christmas too .. and as we all know .. where "Bambi goes .. nuthin' grows" .. in these cases. ;)

I have several posts queued up that are gathering dust and will get them posted soon as I'm feelin' better and can use my lenses again .. I did this one in HUGE print in my wordpad .. before cutting and pasting here. :D