Captain One-Eyed Joe

I've discovered something the last couple of days. I am, in fact, getting old.

When I was about 20, I got in a snowball fight and got my cornea scratched by ice.  I couldn't fully open my one eye and the doctor gave me some eye drops, and as I remember it, started to feel better very soon, almost immediately. 

Well, jumping forward 19 years later, I was playing Pay Day with my kids, when my 3 year old poked me in the eye.   I couldn't open either one of my eyes, and I got very sick to my stomach, dizzy and achy all over.  After 3 hours of this, I called my husband and told him I thought I should go to the doctor.  He, of course, came home from work and drove me because I looked like I was drunk.  I couldn't walk a straight line, I was running in to everything, and I still couldn't open my eyes. 

Well, I wasn't surprised that again I had scratched my cornea. I was surprised at how sick I was.  It didn't get better right away either.  The doctor put some gunk in my eye, gave me a patch, and told me not to open my eye or take off the patch for 24 hours.  I could handle that, although I was sick, and it hurt for a long time.  My 24 hours was up a while ago, and my eye is swollen.  I still feel like I have a finger in my eye.  I like to think it was a bigger scratch, and that is why it hit me so hard. 

Now I do not share this with you for sympathy on getting hurt, after all it was just a poke in the eye.  I  do have this horrible thought that it might be because I am 19 years older!!  Could this be the start of getting old?  I am, after all, almost 40.  Could this be the beginning of my snap dragon phase of life?  What hasn't snapped is dragging?  I have found gray hair, hair that doesn't belong, and missing hair.  My kids tell me things I said, and I don't remember the conversation.  The other day, while visiting with a friend, she told me she had gone running, and I said wow that's great. Then she told me that she posted it on Facebook, and I had already liked it.  I didn't even remember that until I went into Facebook and sure enough, I had!!  Well I guess this is the perfect way to end the last 3 months of my 30's with a big poke in the eye!! 

So to getting old I'd like to say, "Bring It On!!!"


How could I not forgive him?