Tuesday, October 06, 2026

The goggles would have been very helpful

Well this is not the post I had planned today . 

The plan had been to do a little bit of an update. Say how good I'm feeling. I've been back to work for a few days. My shoulder is feeling better. Starting to get back to life. It's all really great .

That is until Sunday afternoon . 

I was trying to fix some stripped out screw holes on my front door on Sunday afternoon. I had drilled out the old holes and filled them in with some fresh wood doweling. The access was very hard and I couldn't get my little saw in there so I decided to use a pair of side snips to just clip off the ends of the doweling. Unfortunately, there was some lack of wisdom there and I forgot to put on some safety glasses. As a result. Of course, one of those pieces of doweling flew straight off and directly into my left eye.

We rushed over to the emergency room where I waited for 7 hours to be told that yes indeed I had injured my eye and I needed to go see a specialist.

I went and saw the specialist yesterday and he advised me that it's going to take a few days to feel better. Fortunately it's only a small scratch so it should get better but it's going to be a miserable few days until then.

Feeling very frustrated, very low right now because of it. I was just getting back to life starting to feel like I could rebuild myself after the shoulder injury and now I'm getting kicked down again. Really miserable really sour mood today.

Adding insult to injury. It's not even like I get a cool pirate patch. I just have to walk around with this inflamed eye full of ointments and goop constantly tearing and making me sniffle all the time. I 

 would really like to be able to post more positive stuff here on this blog. But for this week I'm just a grump.

This post was read out using voice to text and was not reviewed because I am blind. Please forgive any errors