The other day on the Discovery Channel we watched something about a girl who got a rare infection of parasites in her EYE from her contacts.    She almost went blind and was in dire pain.  It’s a very resistant bacteria that walls itself off in a self made cyst so the antibiotics can’t kill it.  Freaky.  Deaky.  Shit.

The next day Middle Child gets something in her eye.  Panic sets in.  “I can’t see out of the corner of my eye!”

“Maybe it’s that parasite from your contacts”, I said smiling.

(Shane:  stern look of disapproval)  MC:  “I can’t believe you just said that mommmm!”

“I was only kidding it’s probably a fleck of dust in there.” (gave several tips to flush it out & by morning it was gone)

A few days later I get this text message.  From her… in her room of all places.  Because seriously, why get up and ask a question if you can just text it?

“I’m going blind again.  I think I have a disorder.  I keep seeing a long stringy thing almost circling at the right corner  of each eye.  I tried washing it out, blotting it with tissue, ignoring it and visine.   I need to clean out my contact case”

(I think I’ve created a monster)

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