A couple of days ago my eyes started getting really irritated and itchy. I thought it was allergies. I’ve always had allergies, but they never manifested themselves as itchy or irritated eyes (except for dog and cat) until we moved to Dayton. Now it seems like every year my eyes are a little worse. Same with my son – nothing until we moved here and now the fall is just brutal on him. It got so bad last year that it looked like he had a lazy eye.

Up until this year it was relatively minor. But the last week or so has been bad. So bad that I decided to use some eye drops that my son’s pediatrician recommended last fall. The results were mixed at best.

After 4 or 5 days, it feels almost like I have pink eye or some gross shit like that. It doesn’t look like it, but it feels like it. Oddly enough, I had some other eye drops in the medicine cabinet and upon researching what they were, I found it was often prescribed for pink eye. I figured what the hell, I’ve done dumber things. Hell, I’ve put worse things in my eye on purpose. There wasn’t much left, but I used it. Again, mixed results. My eyes still don’t feel quite right and I have no desire to go to the doctor.

My official diagnosis is Swine Flu in my eyes. Call the CDC.