As I am writing this I am flushing my eyes out every five minutes. I guess it is very easy to take your eyes for granted since really you only look at them only when you see your reflection. I mean we look out of them minute by minute and hour by hour but we don't really see them. Today Daughter #1 came in through the door with a hornet sting on the back of her neck so I proceeded to the medicine cabinet for the Afterbite to put some on the bite site. Problem is that Daughter #2 had two bites last week. She used the Afterbite and did not put it back in the medicine cabinet. We were frantically looking for the Afterbite when Hubby remembered that he had some in his kit from the JCR's. The first thing I noticed was that it came in a tube of gel rather than liquid form which was different from what I normally used. I opened the tube and tried to squeeze a small amount onto the bite site of the neck of Daughter #1. Hmmm it wouldn't come out.... hmmmm! So like a a fool I turned the tube to see why it wouldn't come out and squeezed at the same time. That's when the accident happened.
Somehow a small amount had dried in the opening of the tube and was blocking the liquid gel below. It popped sending a spray of ammonia straight into my eye. I was blinded instantly. I'm not sure what I did but I think there was a scream involved and Daughter#1 was panicking and trying to get Hubby to come quick. Next thing I know I'm stumbling into a wall as I try to get to the nearest water source. Hubby is grabbing a glass of water and trying to force me to the floor of the deck.... "My Deck" and drowning me with water as he pours it over my face. I for the moment can't breath both from the shock of having water pured over my face and also from the water that went up my nose. At this point it would have been funny except that I was in serious danger of burning my cornea to pieces. I grabbed the water and sat up and started to carefully pour the water into my eyes flushing them as best I could. It was, in all honesty, one of the most scarey things that have ever happened to me.
Both eyes were burned but only one eye still hurts. That was about an hour ago. Don't you know it.... our clinic was closed at the time. The medical profession are never available when you need them. I am able to see but I must say that I am worried that I have done permanent damage. As soon as the clinic reopens I'm off to have it checked ... stay tuned.
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