In the 'Eye' of the beholder...Freaking Yikes!!!

Well, be prepared for some shocking 'Eye' pictures! This was NOT a pleasant experience by any means! :o( . . . How did it all start?

The end of January I went to visit Lisa. We were going to dig in and get some deep early spring cleaning done! You know how those high shelves and top of kitchen cabinets sort collect dust? We were going to tackle that and 'wipe 'em out!' :o) We even had the living room and stairs carpeting cleaned! We worked hard for 3 days and it looked awesome! LaRue was at school and Tillie and Matilda were at home and they were terrific!

I forgot to ask for 'low odor' for the carpet cleaning. I am soooo allergic to perfumes of any kind including cleaners. The last day I notice my eyes seemed itchy and Lisa mentioned her eyes were itchy too. Hers passed and were okay. I drove home and after two days my eyes were red and out of control itching!! Things went downhill fast. The pictures below says it all! This is over a 30 day period!

I woke up and my eyes were puffy and swollen and red and horribly itchy!
Freaky huh?!

I went to the doc and he gave me stuff for it and this is a day or so 'after' the medicine.

Each day that passed my eyes improved.

I have to tell you though, the cortisone cream made my eyelids baked and dry and scaly! Yuck!

Things get better! The sad part, and this is sooo vain on my part, it sure aged my eyes. I'm pleased to be 61 years old, but it sure saddened me to have crepe eyelids and wrinkles!

This is today and not too bad looking!

Today I went to an 'Opthamologist' and was finished with seeing a regular doctor. I told the Opthamologist I should have seen him first! My regular doctor said that it was probably better I started out seeing him first as they would probably ask why I hadn't gone to my regular doctor first. My Opthamologist said, "I AM a Medical Doctor! Oh, well...next time I'm going straight to the Opthamologist FIRST! Hopefully this won't happen again! He told me it was dermatitis. I probably got either or both dust and maybe spraying the cleaners I was using somehow 'got into my eyes'. Boy in the future am I going to be a lot more careful! Next time, I'll wear goggles! Hee! Hee!

When I first went to urgent care, my doctor was off that day, I joked and said, 'Lovely shade of eye shadow I'm wearing, bright pinkish red!' lol :o) He laughed and said, 'Well, I haven't heard it described like that before.' I responded, "Well, now you can say you saw something really freaky and interesting today! lol :o)

(Note to self-for future reading lol means 'laugh out loud' in this case. It also could mean lots of love too.)