on sunday night i started to notice a pain in my right eye, right below the lower lid. by monday i could see a little lump developing right where an eyelash should be. and this morning i woke up to a totally puffy, red, swollen eye. it's lovely. i feel so sexy. (don't click on that link if you're the queasy-type.)
recommended treatments for styes seem to be hot compresses (15 minutes, 4 times a day), vitamin c, zinc (up to 75 mg/day), and this over-the-counter product imaginatively called "stye". i plan on doing all of these things today.
the combination of not being able to see well out of my right eye, plus ANOTHER FREAKING SNOW STORM were enough to have my boss tell me to stay put today. with pleasure. this morning i've been cleaning the house, dusting, putting things away (there were still 2 boxes i hadn't unpacked since moving in last may) and generally just making things tidy.
but before this purging/cleaning frenzy began, charo came over with a borrowed station wagon to help us haul a big pile of old lumber to the dump. (this is all leftover debris from the bathroom renovation last august... it's been sitting on our back driveway, rotting away since then.)
it was actually a fun trip (given that it was 7:30am and i had an eye swollen shut). the people at the dump on club boulevard were very nice, and the whole load only cost me $2 to get rid of! i wish i had more stuff to haul over there... it's a very cathartic experience to throw 200 pounds of crap into a huge dumpster.
last night i finished the painting i was working on. i really like it!
i think i have a sty b/c I have pains and all the symtoms and your web thing really halped me and I think youf or that....but mine is swelling shut so now I have to go see the doctor!
Bob
i have a sty.......and it got a big white head on it to......its on the top of my eyelid tho...its pretty big...but my eye isnt closed shut.....or red..just in the area where it is.....i really want to squeeze the living crap out of it....i keep pinching it when i curle my eyelashes....its such an inconvenience this half inch zit on my eyelid...hopfully tmrw it will look better and smaller...and have less of a white head on it...?...maybe i'll roll over on my pillow and it will pop sence i'v been advised not to squeeze the living crap out of it my self....thank you very much for listening to waht i have to say...anout my half inch zit on my eyelid....maybe waybe we'll see each other sty's sumtime..? and hopfully they wont run into eachother..?
ok well bye
Hey sty people,
I also have one of thoes things on my eyes. It started with a sore pain. Then I kept rubing it hahaha oops shouldn't of did that because this morning I looke like the hunch back Quazymoto.
Posted by: the girly with the sty at March 31, 2006 10:17 AMThis morning I woke up with a sty. Knew what it was even though I've reached the ripe old age of 40 without getting one. Searched the internet to find out how to treat it and found your blog. I'm sitting over here in Wake County, rubbing this itching damn eye, and enjoying your shoe obsession. L-ingMAO at the church signs and the traffic island for sale. Thinking Roxi may be one of the prettiest baby girls ever with those huge blue eyes. Just generally enjoying peeking into your world. Thanks.
Posted by: Jodi at June 7, 2006 11:20 AMHey everyone. Most everyone is on this site because you have a stye or at least you think you do. I am 23 years old I live in Arkansas. When I was only in 5th grade I had styes all the time. It was nothing for my doctor you lance a stye every month. Most always it was a very big unconvience for me as I grew up. My eye would swell shut and I was so humilated. I had to go to school with patches on my eye and everyone thought that I was crazy. Almost ten years has gone by and I have a family of my own my little boy is two. Two days ago I could feel something bothering my eye. Even though it has been long ago that I had a stye I was so immune to them that I remembered the feeling. This morning I woke up to a closed eye. Syyes are no fun. Take it from me I have had them all of my life.
Posted by: Jeribeth at November 12, 2006 11:01 AMactually, jeribeth, most everyone is on this site to see which shoes xta is buys next...
Posted by: joy at November 12, 2006 11:02 PM