"Patchy"

Yes Patchy is what Jake and I have been calling me since Thursday. Because as you can see in the picture below, I am wearing a patch on my eye.... no I am not trying to relive Jake's third year of life, I under went some eye surgery of my own on Thursday at the Moran Eye Center in SLC. For what? Well I had some unnamed problem with my eyelashes, poking me in the eye and scratching my lens blurring my vision. The whole experience was very interesting, they mildly sedated me, but I could see the whole thing as they cut off the lower section of my upper eyelid and reattached it. I talked to the surgeon and his students who were watching for the majority of the time. What do you talk about while your eye is being cut open you ask? Well we talked about where was good to eat around the hospital, as I was forbidden to eat anthing for the previous 18 hours, I talked to the interns about Grey's Anatomy, and then when Dr. Weinberg was doing some cutting he asked me...." Have you ever done any international travel to a 3rd world country" Why yes I replied, then listed several countries he might be interested in hearing about....Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, Malaysia, China, Thailand.... as he stopped me to tell me he had found the problem with me eye. I apparently likely aquired a bacterial infection while traveling abroad and had a mild case of Trichiasis. Which he explains is the leading cause of blindness in 3rd world countires.....but can be treated- before you get to the point I was at by taking three little pills of a certain antibiotic, which he perscribed to me to take to be sure the problem will not return. Aparently some bacteria gets in your eye and creates some scar tissue pushing your lashes every which way including into your eye. Well it has been an adventure. I joke that I am going to be a pirate for Halloween. Also it has been a lesson in confidence, or finding I have more than I may have thought, as I am not self conscious in the least that i look like a modern day pirate. I would have included a pict of the actual eye, but I am afraid it is a little gross for some blogosphere readers.