I had to grow a little today, I did something I didn’t think I could do. I hate getting anything close to my eyes. I’ve never been good with eye drops and I really wish I could wear contacts, but I could never do that whole thing with the touching my eyes.

Well, today I was eating a little lunch. I was having some tortilla chips (just plain, of course) and as I took a bite a little piece flew up right into the corner of my eye. This was not good. I held my eye open and ran to the bathroom. Sure enough, below my lid was a nice chuck of corn tortilla. Well, there was nothing to do but try and force it out.

I reached right in there and started moving it around to try and force it out. It turns out that one’s eyes are pretty well lubricated. The chunk of tortilla soon turned into a lump of mushy tortilla that slid around on my eye very nicely. It moved up, it moved down, it moved across, even going over my iris a couple of times (but not my pupil, that would have freaked me out), but it didn’t move out.

Finally, it got caught on my bottom lid and I could take it off. Of course there was a little bit that broke off and stayed in my eye. I was luckily able to get that bit out without too much trouble.

Phew! It was a traumatic experience, but I was able to pull through.