Monday evening I managed to scratch my right eye taking out a contact lens just before I went to sleep. I've scratched my eye before and didn't think anything of it. Just went to sleep thinking it'll be fine in the morning.

It wasn't. It still hurt as much as the night before. Had a shower and it wasn't feeling too bad, but had the occasional twinges. Put in a contact lens in my left eye and headed to work and was in discomfort all morning so at lunch time I decided to find an optician I could visit, just to put my mind at rest I wasn't going to end up blind or something. Annoyingly my optician is 120 miles away, near my parents, in Milton Keynes, and the nearest branch is a 20 minutes train ride away.

First I tried Boots, only to be told that they don't do emergency appointments and I would need a full eye test, but they couldn't fit me in today anyway. Next was Specsavers, who basically told me they wouldn't even think about looking at me unless I became a customer. Finally I went next door to Eyesite who said I'd probably need a full eyesight test but they could fit me in early afternoon and would cost me �18.50. That sounded the best offer I was likely to get so I went with that. When I went back later they did a full test including taking photos of the back of my eyes, which I'd had done before, but I'd never seen them until now. He said I did have a small scratch on my eye but it looked to be healing and would probably be healed by tomorrow and he booked me a quick appointment for the following lunchtime. By the evening my eye was feeling a lot better and didn't really hurt at all.

And then I went to sleep. Woke up this morning in more agony than I was yesterday and my eye was causing me all sorts of grief during the morning. Went to the optician who said that it was quite common for th eye to heal 90% during the day only for the eyelid to stick to the healing area during sleep and reopen the scratch when you wake up. He has said to get some anti-bacterial lubricating ointment from a chemist today so that it shouldn't happen again tomorrow morning. In the mean time I'm wondering around with everything blurred to my right and in mild agony. Ho hum.