Who's luck is worse than mine?

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Got pink eye (right eye) last week. Pretty bad case, looked like I'd just gone a few rounds with Tyson. Happened on tour too, which of course made it much worse. Took the over the counter eyedrops, VERY SLOWLY got rid of it over a week's time. Thought it was over.

Nope.

Woke up from a nap a few minutes ago, and I now have full blown pink eye in my LEFT eye.

Imagine, me! Pink! On election day!

Any home remedies anyone has to share would be greatly appreciated.

Otherwise, tell me what's worse than having a severely contagious virus in a place like your own eye, not once but TWICE.

― Juan Milius (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

at least you have eyes

― lk (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

having a severly contagious virus in another location of your body would be pretty rough

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine, me! Felon under house arrest! On election day!

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, pink eye! go listen to panic! at the disco or whatever

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

My bassist finally recovered from having a stomach problem where he could only eat soft, gentle food for three months, and now as a result of the medication he took for that has a kidney stone.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that or the constant drinking.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Pink eye is the worst!

Ok, I learned this while in Italy (from a pharmacist there):

Take a bottle of EXTRA-virgin olive oil, and hold your hand around the spout, and look into the bottle, like you're looking in a telescope. Roll your eyes around a bit and you'll start to feel the vapors. Do that for a while a couple times a day. My sister had a nasty case of it, and that cleared her pink eye right up. I've done it since then, and it works in a pinch. I bullshit you not.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

That...seems wholly crazy...and yet, I BELIEVE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

to answer original question: many, many people.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/blinding_of_the_masons_in_the_wood.jpg

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds totally bonkers, but Paolo (the pharmacist) and I swear by it. It's sorted me out on many occasions.

If it makes you feel any better, our bath tub is spewing out remnants that our landlord puts down his disposal. The apartment smells like chili and old bathwater. Delightful!

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, i have at least 3 things going on that i'd say are far worse than pink eye, but i know better than to share them here. i think it takes a certain amount of audacity to challenge someone to have "worse luck" just because of pink eye. oh no, and my chai latte was only luke warm this morning too!

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Molly - thanks for the sympathy, does it hafta be extra virgin? That shit's expensive! I have extra light, that won't work, right? I believe this remedy and am prepared to hit the grocery store...

like murdering etc - oh get over yourselves. Luck is relative and at the moment, I'm feelin' grimmer than you. Besides, lest you forget, audacity is what i'm all about. Who doesn't want to be audacious?

― Juan Milius (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

there's enough of that on ilx to go around.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, no problem. And yeah, it does have to be extra virgin. I think the tiny bottles (Olivio, maybe?) that go for about $4 would do just fine. All you need to do is swish it around in the bottle for a little bit to get the vapors up towards your eye. You'll immediately feel it. It's kind of wonderful.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

"oh get over yourselves (sic)"

yes, that is just what i was thinking

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

1990 - age 12.

Monday - Stay home from school with pink eye in left eye. Begin FF1 game.
Tuesday - stay home again, taking antibiotics.
Wednesday - still home, playing FF1 with feet at this point. Rubbing eyes.
Thursday - now have pink eye in right eye.
Friday - still at home, no school all week! AND I beat the FF1 game!

BEST WEEK EVER.

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

ps this is my advice to you Mr. Roger: go vote and, when curtains are closed, rub your eye all over the voting machine / papers & marker / whatever means they use to vote wherever you are.

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, hell, I'm no anarchist!

You be readin' too much Crimethinc and shit, diebold

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine fell over crossing the road, badly fucked up her leg and was rendered immobile for three months. During that time she got deep vein thrombosis, was forced to leave London and move back to her parents. Then she was hit by two cars.

Amazingly, she's only the second unluckiest person I know.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

The unluckiest person I know caught her jacket in a taxi door on New Year's Eve and was dragged along for some distance by the moving vehicle, putting her in hospital for several weeks.

When she recovered her boyfriend informed her he was moving to New Zealand for a year for work reasons. By way of a goodbye present, as well as to cheer her up after the trauma of the previous months, he took her to a Caribbean island whose name escapes me right now. Just in time for a hurricane to hit. They were trapped in the hotel for several days, literally holding the door up at times, while the town flooded. When the storm subsided they were still trapped inside because the roof had blown off the prison and there were inmates (pirates!) looting the whole area.

She is actually able to laugh about all this now.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Unluckiest person I know was my mother-in-law, who first developed Alzheimer's symptoms when she was barely out of her 40s, and spent 20 years dying of it.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have simultaneously the best, worst, and strangest luck. O crisitunity!

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

i have that too abbott! it keeps life interesting

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Matt uh.. wins. Not that that is the right phrase really.

I mean come on Roger - ok yuck pinkeye but if you start a "whos luck is worse than mine" thread don't get upset if an Iraqui comes by and says "well actually last week my home was blown to bits and my whole family died" and say they're being spoilsports.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I for one welcome our oncoming deluge of angry Iraqi googlers.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

This summer our kitten fell off the roof and dislocated his leg. Now this autumn our older cat has cancer. Total cost of vets' bills something approaching £4500, and we're not done yet.

I propose that my cats are the unluckiest on ILX.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Surely there are unluckier cats that don't have £4500

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

I guess. Our cats were lucky enough to have a credit card.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

ROGER'S LUCK WASN'T IMPROVED BY THE ELECTIONS, HUH

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

bad luck on the whole spelling front.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I propose that my cats are the unluckiest on ILX

My cat has cancer except they can't treat him and we will have to put him down. :( very unlucky.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

We are supposed to be finding out tomorrow how bad our cat is. It's taken the lab 2 weeks to analyse the biopsy, dunno why it's taking so long. He has been vomiting/having diarrhoea for about 4 weeks now, having the tumour removed doesn't seem to have made much difference to that. My wife just phoned and he's been sick 4 times today. :( Might have to take him back to the vet.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I stopped believing Molly about the olive oil as soon as she said "It's sorted me out on many occasions" -- how many times has this freak had pinkeye, anyway?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

our kitty's is in his face so can't be removed. we're giving him prednisone daily which is supposed to help keep him comfortable in his remaining weeks.

good luck with yours.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

wtf is pinkeye, please? i mean presumably it's when your eye goes pink but how does that mean you get time off school and how come we don't have it here?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

It's conjunctivitis. We definitely get it here, as my right eye will testify from time to time. It's never stopped me going anywhere.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I stopped believing Molly about the olive oil as soon as she said "It's sorted me out on many occasions" -- how many times has this freak had pinkeye, anyway?

This freak has had pink eye one time that was completely disgusting and awful. I've had 2 occasions in the past 10 years or so that could have turned into a full-blown conjunctivitis-fest, but the olive oil sorted me out.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

(obv I am a freak of freakish proportions as I have recurring episodes of it from time to time)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

(yup, me too. if there's something going around, i will catch it)

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

thanks ailsa. yeah, i've had that a few times too and never taken anything for it or had it stop me doing anything except wear contact lenses.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

I read this thread yesterday and today I wake up with fucking pinkeye! Second time in six months too and I never had it before in my life.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Saturday, 11 November 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

See? Pretty contagious.

FWIW - Molly is RIGHT! The extra virgin works - it at the very least relieves the irritating itch / pain hybrid. I was pretty surprised.

My left eye is still pretty pink, but I think I'm near the end of it now.

And yeah, the election, overall, bummed me out pretty severely, but not as much as George "Monday-morning-quarterback-never-fails-to-make-the-worst-possible-decision-no-matter-what" Bush and his horrendous timing / shameless pandering.

― Juan Pink Eye Milius (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 11 November 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

It'll be an interesting two years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 November 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually more fearful of the next six.

― Juan Pink Eye Milius (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 11 November 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

Conclusion: time travel. (I'm going for 2000 years in the future when we're all living in spacepods.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 November 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds great, Ned, and I'll miss ya, but I'm Old West bound when that happens. Heh heh heh

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 11 November 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Watch out for the Lambourghinis driven by mad scientists.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 November 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

At school we always used to use milk as an eyewash for pinkeye -- sort of bathe your eye in it. It works, IIRC, but I have no idea why.

And of course you all know about warm teabags for a sty, I trust (the tannin zaps the sty. Somehow.).

It occurs to me that if your luck was really bad and you had both afflictions at the same time, you also have all the ingredients for a consoling cup of tea.

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Sunday, 12 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.twilightzonemuseum.com/show/images/timeenough.jpg

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

All the time I want and all the time I need! Oh shit broke me specs.

― Darramouss :D (Darramouss ftw), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

The extra virgin works - it at the very least relieves the irritating itch / pain hybrid. I was pretty surprised.

I am happy to hear this! Glad your eyes are getting better.

― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

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