Tonight I gave myself a dose of “Little Colds decongestant plus cough” right in the eye. I didn’t do it on purpose, and yes, it stings. Maggie has come down with the nasty cough/flu combo that is going around right now. I was trying to get her ready for bed, and dose her up for the night so she sleeps alright. Of course, being almost two, and having embraced that two-ness with all the fervor of a newly converted religious fanatic, she had to fight me on the issue. While Little Cold’s is pretty effective, it doesn’t taste great. I had the dropper loaded in one hand, and I was trying to finagle her into my other arm, and hold her still enough to get it in her mouth when right as I was about to dispense the medication, she slapped my hand and wrenched herself halfway out of my grip. This made my trigger hand fly back, and the medicine squirted me right across both eyes.

It did burn quite a bit, so I left the living room cursing and washed my eyes out in the bathroom sink. The water in my bathroom takes a while to warm up, and I’ve just got to say that rinsing burning cold medicine out your eyes with frigid water actually makes them hurt more. Once the water warmed up a bit I was able to do a better job of it, and the stinging has passed into a weird sensation that I can’t really describe. Just in case this weirdness was the way an eye feels when it’s working on going blind and needs medical attention, I called poison control, where I got to talk to a very nice man, who although he could probably hear me blushing over the phone trying to explain exactly what happened, chose not to mock me to my face, and is, I’m sure laughing to his poison control comrades about the crazy twenty-five year old mother who squirted herself in the eye with baby cold meds.

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