Yesterday I attended a Chamber of Commerce Business Exchange because I know several people who were exhibiting in it. We went out for a drink after it was over. Although we sat outside, within a couple of hours most of the tables were full of smokers. I’m usually quite sensitive to smoke anyhow, but my eyes were really burning so I left.

Today my eyes were still burning but, since it was both eyes, I figured it was just the residual sensitivity to the smoke last night.

Around 5:30pm I did my usual peek at my eye’s condition. Yes, the eyelid is still somewhat swollen so I have to lift the eyelid up to see the surgical site. Well, tonight I got a nasty surprise. It was easy to see that one of my stitches had broken loose and the pulled together eyeball had opened up. Now this only took me a couple of seconds to figure this out … and then I got really dizzy. It seems that an open eyeball wound doesn’t like fresh air! Fortunately I could feel a faint coming on and was able to lay down before my dizziness got any worse.

Of course, I could resist another look prior to going to bed that night. Mistake! Got dizzy all over again.