TheBanyanTree: ice & eyes

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Only I would find myself explaining to my ophthalmologist how I managed 
to poke myself in the eye with the pooper scooper handle. <sigh>

There was a baby mouse on the driveway right near the bottom back deck 
step. I didn't want to kill or hurt it, but I wanted it AWAY from the 
house. So I thought the scooper pooper would make a perfect little cage 
for me to  use to toss him into the woods. Only he moved and went under a rock. 
SO. I got a stick and nudged him out and almost had him safely in the 
scooper, then he squeezed under another edge of the rock. As I bent down
 to nudge him out again, the scooper shifted and the handle JAMMED right
 into the corner of my left eye at exactly the same moment I was bending over. If you can say "DAMN, that hurts!!!!!!!!!"
 about 100 times, you might come close to describing the pain. My eye
 is so swollen and it hurts so much it gives me a headache. I should 
probably go to Urgent Care, but I would rather not sit for hours with 
all kinds of sick people when I can see my ophthalmologist tomorrow and I
 trust her judgement better anyway. I just want to make sure I didn't 
tear my retina or anything that needs to be addressed. 

Corn bags do make great ice packs for eyes, though. 

I bet I have a doozy of a black eye by tomorrow. My kidlets will love 
the eye patch. See, there's always a silver lining. <g>