My Self-Diagnosed Subconjunctival Hemorrhage
* Spoiler alert * It is sounds worse than it actually is.
Normally I sit at my desk and code all day. I am even on the computer during lunch. But the other day my wrist was killing me (gee I wonder why?) so I was getting up a lot to take breaks. I wonder if I was also being a bad influence on some of my coworkers may have been trying to work and did not want me chatting them up. Hey, this is how I roll.
So there was some "ASU entrepreneurs" group with booths setup on the lawn outside. They were giving away shirts and backpack thingies, and brochures and pens and stuff. So I sent one of our interns to (please) go get me a highlighter -- because I have an office supply fetish. Kewl, it's got a comfort grip!
I gotta change the subject while he is out on the scavenger hunt. So I woke up last Wednesday morning, looked in the mirror and was horrified to see a big blood spot on my right eyeball. What the heck! My eye might have been a bit sore too or I may just have been tired. I wondered if I should call my ophthalmologist? Hmmm. Calling my dad seemed much easier. I also snapped this photo which I emailed to my girlfriend, who showed it to her coworkers.
When I was little we had a tree in our backyard that was named after our dog when she died. My dad had dug a hole and buried her then planted the tree. It was a very caring gesture that gave closer to her death. He said that that after he was done with the burial he noticed his eye had partially filled with blood. Then I got a reply back from Lynda who had shown the photo of my eye to her coworker. "She said she's had it before and her doctor said you can get it from sneezing, coughing, lifting something heavy, or straining when you poop."
Well I had not sneezed or coughed hard in the past 24 hours. Gosh that would have to be some kind of cough. Would need to get that looked at! And I never poop. So it must be the huge massive weights that I lift with my huge massive muscles that caused my eye to bleed. Maybe it was watching Dubya give his speech the previous night. That is enough to make anyone's eyes bleed. Well truth be told I did not watch the speech. I watched the pundits, that is more fun.
It was good to know that my eye would be OK. Who needs a silly ophthalmologist anyhoo when I have fun anecdotes and MayoClinic.com. BTW, the fancy name for what I have is a "Subconjunctival Hemorrhage (broken blood vessel in eye)". Sound like I am going to live, life is good.
ps. The intern just brought me back a piece of birthday cake. And when I say brought back, I mean from across campus. Our group was celebrating a birthday several buildings away from us. I probably will not end up eating it because of my diet but it was a nice gesture. Having interns rocks!