Reply #88: Bacterial corneal ulcer

[jmowreader]

There's kind a skin on your eye. If something scratches that skin (like, say, grinding rust off a car body in the wind while wearing a face shield instead of chemical goggles, so the crud can whip up and hit you in the eye) bacteria can get in there and give you the infection from hell.

It's treated by exchanging forty dollars for a teaspoonful of antibiotic eyedrops and putting one drop of them in the infected eye every fifteen minutes for the next week...unless your eye doctor tells you, like mine did me, to quit doing it after three days because you're cured.

I got knocked off the roof of a Blackhawk helicopter in 1984 and landed on my ankle...that was a gentle tickle compared to bacterial corneal ulcer.