Pink Eye

Not as cute as it sounds. It’s worse than having evil eye because it’s contagious and no one wants to touch you and HR tells you can’t go into work.
It’s just plain bad, but with a cute name.

I have an eye issue and the only thing I heard daily in 9^th/​8^th grade: Do you have pink eye. I said, no an eye issue. It kept on happening, daily. What an eyesore.

Any time anything is wrong with my eyes, I convince myself I’m going to go blind. And that shit is so contagious.
But when I was little it was cool to miss school, way better than when I had lice!

Pink eye and working as a Nurse comes hand in hand… During my first 6 months as an ICU RN I must have gotten pink eye twice… I guess it’s part of the work hazards… I hate the continuous oozing of eye crap that I have to keep dabbing off… I went a head and uploaded a photo of me with pink eye, drinking it up at Club 6 because you know when I party I GO HARD… and I like to SPREAD THE LOVE… Pink Eye Love that is!

One day when I was working at my old job, I noticed that the child I was working with wouldn’t stop rubbing his eyes. I made it a point to keep his hands occupied for the rest of our therapy session.
About an hour and a half into the session, his mother walks in and puts eye drops in his eyes.
Me: «What are those eye drops for?»
Mother: «That’s for his conjunctivitis»
Me: «That’s pink eye right?»
Me: …
Mother: «Oh he’s not contagious or anything»
Me: …
It’s still not cool. Also the note that you have to send home from school is totally terrifying. Stupid contagious public health issue disease thingies of suckiness. Wahh.

A fun disease to have at least once. Just as long as you aren’t serving me food.
When I was in korea, I got to experience their incredibly high quality, low cost national health care service. I got pink eye. My eye didn’t hurt, it was just a little crusted over in the morning, but I got out of work for a day, whoo hoo!
I was escorted to a clean, large office, where some super cute korean nurses in adorable outfits and bright red lipstick happily greeted me. I got to see the doc within 10 minutes. Although I didn’t really get what was going on, one of the friendly nurses ushered me into a corner room and motioned me to pull my pants down. She then gave me a giant, very painful shot in my ass. I came out, rubbing my buttock, and paid about $ 10. Maybe if she wasn’t so cute and charming, it would have been more painful?
Then next door to the pharmacy for some eyedrops, and little packets of herbs/​vitamins/​something that was sealed up in individual daily servings. I asked how much it cost, they said «how much do you have?» I had about 800 won, they said, «perfect!» and completed the transaction. If only american medicine was so simple!

Best excuse ever to get out of work for a week.

Pink Eye sucks. But it is a good way to get sent home from work once your boss sees you in person since he’s too much of a prick to believe that you really have it over the phone.
Now that I’m writing this review I’m remembering that Pink Eye is not the same as a stye so now I am stymied. But if you have a stye in your eye just in case you can get rid of it by rubbing a gold ring over it a few times. Nicole’s Helpful Hint of the Day.

Conjunctivitus is a piece-​of-​shit bacterial infection of the eye. And I’ve had it several times, and not in fault by mascara (since I don’t wear it) but from rubbing my eyes too much during spastic moments of allergens induced itchiness I could not ignore. The doctor on staff at the local urgent care said that in my case, due to touching my eyes too much I had inflammed and induced an infection of the inner lining of my eyelids. He made out a prescription for eyedrops (Gentamicin Sulfate) which came in this itsy bitsy bottle and some ointment that I was to apply every night. My infection cleared up in about a week, but in the meantime, it looked worse than it felt. Good thing I wore glasses to escape scrutiny.
I had to go to Urgent Care twice because I could not get seen by my regular doctor until a month later. Hello! I can’t see, you dorks! Bad bad experience, and never want it again. Wash your hands, because this infection can be spread to other people, highly contagious.

Great excuse…