Eye Exam

I hope you all have regular eye exams. It's important to have your eyes checked and it's amazing what the doctors can see - for example, they can tell if you have high blood pressure and diabetes just by looking into your eyes. I ended up with a subconjunctival hemorrhage in my right eye on Wednesday. It's basically just a bruise on the eye, but it looks like the eye is bleeding. My camera sucks at close up pictures, so I found one online that looks like my eye did - I didn't have a black eye though. I've always found these bruises to be somewhat neat because as they heal the blood moves to toward the iris and then begins to move down. Similar to this picture:

It's been a week and a half and I still have a very thin line of blood that outlines my iris. If it would have happened closer to Halloween I could have made it part of a costume :)

People can get a "bruise" on the eye even from sneezing, coughing, or rubbing the eye. Luckily they don't hurt and I didn't even realize I had one until I looked in the mirror. If someone gets them frequently they should have blood work done to make sure there isn't an underlying cause.

And that concludes this quick lesson and public service announcement about the eye. ;)