h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Just got back from hospital with new eyepatch. very sore. I look like Pudsey the bear. I drew the line at being painted yellow.

pity you would look good in yellow

So what have you been doing to need an eyepatch?

Oh dear

Do you talk like a pirate now?

But, really, Swift recovery!

Yeah!!!

Good luck old chap!!!




GT

>>> I look like Pudsey the bear.

You also look like a friend of ours, at least 90% similar, except for the eye patch, which he currently doesn't have, although I think he sported one last Talk Like A Pirate Day. Did your family send any relations to Weaverville. California?

I hope you and your eyeball both feel better soon, Clive.

Thanks everyone!

>Do I know talk like a pirate?<
Only if you can construe going 'arrghh!!' everytime I blink as being piratish.

>What on earth have been up to?<
Well I'd like to claim it was an encounter with a triffid, but the truth is more mundane.
It's a recurrent problem: the cells on my cornea lift up and become inflamed. my eye doubles in size, the lid swells up and risks becoming infected. if that happens it's agony as it happens right now every-time I blink it just feels like splinters of glass grating over sand paper. One of the purposes of the pad is to keep my eye shut = no blinking.

>You also look like a friend of ours<
I get that a lot. Apparently I seem to remind an inordinate number of people of someone else. Perhaps I just have a Doppelganger who gets about a bit.


Most people will know that our visual field is a recombination of our brains, a conceit of binocular sight. Similarly focus: what is in focus is a very small spot: the rest is cunningly camouflaged. Well, knocking out one eye leaving just monocular vision really makes this point well. To read this thread I've had to increase the zoom on my browser

I knocked myself out last night with a few glasses of the emergency port , that we keep in the fridge for just such an event. Worked like a charm. I slept.

The pad came of during the night so I was able to inspect my eye this morning. The swelling has gone right down(I ) but it still looks very sensitive. We've reapplied the pad (I also love my mum - she has rolls of surgical tape in the medicine cupboard! )
Now that the swelling is much reduced it makes keeping my good eye open a lot easier and my pupil isn't so dilated which means I can tolerate having the lights on - or staring at a computer screen - which is why this journal was so short!

I do appreciate all the kind wishes: it does make me feel better.

Thanks!