Right Eye Stye? My, my, my...

I'm waiting for the sig-nif to get off work. She's been working some really long and crazy hours lately. It's 7pm and she's still at the job. At home, she's been fallin asleep watchin TV around 10ish, sleeping about 3-5 hours, then wakes up in a panic and does some work for a few hours. I only know this 'cause she tells me. Not 'cause I sit there, hands under my chin, watching her, waiting for her to wakeup. That would just be silly and stalkerish. And I don't do that. Anymore. On weeknights.

I worked from home today 'cause I was a hideous beast. I've got this stye on the outside of my right eyelid. I've had two or three others in the past three and a half years. The first time I had one was in December of 2004 when I went to the Philippines. That one I chalked up to being, well... in the Philippines. The city was very polluted and I figured I got some dust underneath the lid of my eye and it caused the infection. Since then, I've had one or two small ones that came and went.

But this one is pretty bad. And, if I remember correctly, the others were in the interior of my lid. This one's on the outside, begging people to stop and stare. Reminds me of an episode of Family Guy with Chris and his huge zit. A huge talking zit. It was a very "Little Shop of Horror" type situation... the zit would say, "Feed me..." and would control Chris' actions. That's my stye. It's taken over my life and forced me to hide from the outside world.

I saw a doctor about it yesterday. He didn't do much to comfort me. He's a new doc I found since my old one abandoned me to work in Bellevue. This new guy made me feel like the $15 copay spent was all for nought. The stuff he told me I could have found on the Internet. Which I did lookup later. My stye has an official name. And, oh, it's such a cute one: hordeolum. Doesn't that sound so special?

At least it's not something worse. I've been treating it with a warm compress all day and, well, it finally popped. Oh, yeah, I went there. In fact, I can go further. If you dare, you can take a look at my stye. Go ahead and click on this sentence to see it. But don't click if you don't want to see it. What? You do??? Or you don't? What to do???

The sig-nif just called. Gotta run. I hope Mr. Hordeolum goes away this weekend. Be gone you little hor...