… i totally got all of your attention with that title, eh? well, good, ‘cuz i’m about to go all doogie howser on yer asses and alert you to an often overlooked issue when people fight the common cold. yer very own 2 eyeballs can get sick too.

about 4-5 weeks ago, some of you might recall i had to spend a week in maryland on business. noh? well, okay… i did. that’s not the point. what IS, though, is that by the time i landed after the loooong trip home filled with coughing children & hacking and wheezing adults, i was terrified to get a cold. with my sh*tty immunity system, i always fortify on up before i travel, come well armed with Vitamins and whatnot, so as you can imagine, i was thrilled to come home and NOT exhibit any signs of a cold… even days after.

i did, however, have an odd pain in my left eyeball that faded in time, tho made itself even visably apparent with a nasty pile of veins that sprouted from my tear duct to the inner side of my iris. it too, went away tho, so i thought nothing of it. it “kinda” appeared/reappeared for about 2 weeks and thru a cold i got, but again, i attributed it to working hard, computer monitor eye fatigue and allergies.

then… as mentioned, i got sick. for the better part of 2 weeks i was miserable, weak, aching joints, small fever, fatigues and more. the cold symptoms even turned flu-like at one point, then settled into my lungs for some upper-respitory fun. seeming to have now conquered these rounds, i faced this new week with a glow, and alll kinds of positiveness… until monday night.

my left eye had turned back into the floating ball of nasty, swollen and irriated veins that screamed, “holy hell i’m your unborn conjointed twin brother and i’m going to birth finally through your socket!” it felt like there was a gynormous sand chunk in my eye everytime i blinked. tuesday i opted for a visit to a local eye doc who gleefully expressed after poking around in my eyeballs with light, tear-dying pigment and i think a golf club that i had a small iritis attack!! CUE THE BLOOD! PAIN! EYEBALL BADNESS AND ACK-ING!

basically, when tracing the looong story i jes’ wrote for you all above, i likely contracted some form of airborne viral infection during the trip or the flight home. iritis is the term loosely translated as eyeballs often getting the chance to host all kinds of baddies that we don’t even know about. often a normal immunity system kicks it’s ass, and you dont’ even know about it. (morning eyeball gunk is a sign of this often) but sometimes, your eye falls to the prey, and the results are much more dramatic than this pic that i found online. raised bulges often occur on or around the iris and can effect vision and even permanently hurt your sight if not treated. 

so yeaaaah, now i get to fwap in some eyedrops, 4X a day for 5 days to help my poor little eyeballs recover. amazing tho, how it’s allll connected. the virus started out trying to inhabit my beloved eyesockets, likely moved into my sinuses and/or dumped down my throat and developed into the cold, which, in turn, found a nice low-immunity body that loved developing flus and pnemonia-like upper respitory nastiness, only to FINALLY BE BEATEN BACK DOWN LIKE A COMMUNIAST BASTARD and return to my eyeballs to try again!

sooo.. take care of your eyes people! they are the windows not only to your soul, but also the infinite levels of SPARTA-LIKE wars that go on in your bodies! plus, you only have 2… so be nice.

oh, and yesh, for allll you ladies out there.. that pic does actually represent my eye color quite well. yup. my eyeballz are purdy….  

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