{"id":99,"date":"2004-02-21T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/21\/hows-my-eye\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T09:50:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:50:27","slug":"hows-my-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/21\/hows-my-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"How’s my eye?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you weren’t there and don’t know about it already, I got hit in the face with a soccer ball last night at our game. It was a hard kick straight from an opponent’s foot into my right eye. I was helped off the field and spent the last 15 minutes of the game in a lot of pain and tears (to try to flush out the grit).
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\nWhen I got home, I called a nurseline that my work gives us, and the nurse said I should go to the emergency room because I still had a big spot in my vision two hours after the incident. The “24-hour health line” from my insurance provider concurred.
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\nSo with my ass (hopefully) covered as far as not having to pay for it, Steve kindly drove me to the UW Medical center emergency room at 12:45am last night. We arrived so late because of a very important refueling stop at Dick’s first. (Mmmm, I think the Dick’s Deluxe is my favorite hamburger of all.)
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\nAnyway, the ER was deserted when we arrived, but four or five other patients showed up right afterwards, making for a long wait. I got taken back to a room pretty quick, but we were there three hours in all.
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\nAfter cooperating with the med student who checked me out first, I got to talk to a real doctor who found I had some corneal abrasions as well as a couple particles still stuck in my cornea. He numbed my eye and removed them with a big Q-tip.
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\nHe and the med student shined the stupid light in my eye for a long, long, time as they assessed the scratches (which were there but not majorly serious).
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\nEventually, I left with a prescription for antibiotic eye ointment and painkillers for a serious bruise I got on my ribs (unrelated incident in the same game).
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\nWe got home at about 4am and still hadn’t showered after the soccer game.
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\nAnyway, here’s a picture of my eye today. The picture doesn’t look as bad (in my opinion) as my actual eye, but here you go:
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