So, My Dog Beat Me Up

Yep. Just what the title of this post says. My dog beat me up.

Two weeks ago, I was about to head to my friend Annie's house to spend the evening with her, her husband, and their two dogs. I was also going to take Chevy and Kahlan with me. Well, since Kahlan has never been outside (there was already snow on the ground when we got her in October) she is kind of scared of walking outside. I was picking her up to carry her out to the car and at the same moment, Chevy decided she wanted to jump up and headbutt me in the eye. Literally, her skull made contact with the perfect circle of my eye! Now, Chevy only weighs 40 pounds; however, she is extremely muscular, especially in her back legs. She can jump up, off the ground, and look Eric in the eye. My husband is 6'3" or 6'4".

Yeah, it hurt like no other. I thought maybe she had just given me a black eye, but six hours later, I was still in the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. My eye was swollen shut and it felt like I had been permanently poked in my eye. It was awful.

Thankfully, Annie and Lance were here to drive me to the ER since Eric's on the other side of the world. After getting quickly checked in, the doctor came in and asked what happened. After explaining to her what happened, she put these numbing drops in my eye. And, let me tell you, those things are seriously the greatest thing on the face of his planet! For the first time in about 7 hours, I could open my eye and not be in much pain. After that she put this dye stuff in my eye and I found out that it turned my eye blue expect for a part of it that turned yellow. This yellow part was a huge scratch down the entire left side of the color part of my eye. In other words, I had a cornea abrasion. How Chevy managed to scratch my eye that much and that badly is beyond me.

So, for the next week I was out of school and practically slept the entire time. I couldn't do anything by myself and I was virtually blind for the entire time. I couldn't even watch T.V. it was pathetic. This put me a week behind in school and I just caught up with that tonight. Anyway - on top of getting that dreadful cornea abrasion, I was puking my guts out the day after! Ah! Talk about some rotten luck. Evidently I picked up a bug from the ER. Oh, and here's the real kicker: the day I was puking my guts out, my bathroom flooded into my kitchen! I swear, things always happen when your husband leaves for a deployment or TDY; it's practically inevitable. In this case, Eric hadn't even been gone a week.

Luckily, I recovered pretty quickly. Unfortunately, my vision is still kind of whacked out. Oh well. I'll go to the eye doctor for that soon. Oh yeah, and during this week where I was handicapped, I learned even more clearly than other recent previous events, who my true friends were! What a sigh of relief.

 This is how I looked for the entire week practically!

This is how I looked at the hospital. Lovely isn't it?! Haha.

Well, that's all for tonight. I'll post a general update tomorrow at some point! =]

xoxo,

Megan