The Emergency Room

Wednesday, I get a call from the hubby after work asking me to pick him up. I have never gotten a call like this before so I was immediately concerned.  Apparently, his eye had swollen and he couldn't open it.  I tried my best to get to Burbank from Hollywood as fast as I could.  It seemed my carpenter husband was busy making shelving for our den when a wood chip from his saw grazed his eye.  He spent the afternoon washing his eye out but after driving to work with the sun in his face, his eye began to really bother him. When your lovedone is hurting you try to do anything to help them so I made several calls. My eye place suggested one doctor but he never called me back so I settled on urgent care.  When my baby got in the car, my race car driver instinct kicked in and I progressed to weave in and out of traffic trying to get my patient to the the urgent care place before it closed.  I was exuding stress.  To make matters worse, my check engine light came on so not only did I think my husband was going to lose his eyes but that my car would die at any minute leaving us stranded and unable to get to the hospital. Luckily, the car held out and we walk into urgent care.  We waited for 40 minutes before going inside where the nurse took his vitals.  I wanted to scream "Help him!  Help my husband before his eyeballs fall out!"  He was put in the special eye examining room of urgent care.  Dr. Chang came in and asked a few questions and then put a couple of drops into his eyes. This magic potion seemed to help the hubby a lot.  Apparently, it was some kind of numbing serum (which they don't prescribe due to it's powerful and totally awesome effects). The doctor was able to exam his eye with all these dyes and a black light and determined he had just scratched his lens badly. Luckily, he didn't have anything lodged in his eye.  The doctor wrote him a prescription and we went to fulfill it at a 24 hour pharmacy. We left his car at work and drove home where we spent the rest of the night getting up every two hours to put eye drops in his eyes.  My baby who has 20/20 vision is not used to putting things in his eyes so it was kinda of funny wo watch him squirm like a puppy dog at each session.  Throughout the night I was still very worried for him because he was all huddled up in a ball and he couldn't open his eyes well. About 30 minutes after we left the doctor's the numbing serum wore off and he was back to being "blind." It wasn't until this afternoon that he seemed to be getting better.  I took the day off from work to care for him and also to take my car into the shop.  That's when I got the bad news that my engine needed this overhaul because of leaking oils, coolant, etc.  After 12 years of service I decided this news was the death warrant for my car.  I have a few months before the car completely shuts down so it's car shopping for me this weekend.  I am hoping to go green. We will also be picking up some safety goggles for the hubby.