First and foremost, sorry for the capitalized title, but I'm really scared. Not even ten minutes ago, an eyelash got into my right eye, so as I went into the mirror so as to get it out I thought to myself "It could be worse..." It certainly could, and, ironically, it did get worse. As I opened my lower eyelid in order to get my eyelash out, a teeny-tiny fly got into it. It felt weird, kinda cold (I'm kind of getting into an explanatory gap) and my vision blurred. I guess it dilated my pupil. I tried to get it out, but I broke the poor bug into two pieces. As my nerves grew and the 'time' ran up, both pieces and the aforementioned eyelash got lower into my eyelid. I have no idea where they are now. My right sinus? Behind my eye?
My main problem is what can I do now. I kind of feel something in there as I blink and/or move my eye, but it might just be me being hypochondriac. My eye now burns periodically. It starts, lasts about ten seconds, and starts to go away. It then comes again. How and when will that stuff go away from my sinus or whatever? The bug is dead by now, right?
Oh, I might be asking for an ophthalmologist to come home tomorrow. My health care will pay for it. I really cannot ask for one right now. My mother is sleeping and works tomorrow, and will be really mad at me if I call an ambulance. She gave me artificial tears, which kind of calmed my eye, but it did not feel that bad in the first place, the fly just made me nervous. Is there something I can do in the time being?
Feel free to ask in case I did not make myself clear. I'm both Argentine (whch means I'm not that familiarized with techical language) and nervous, almost shivering.
Us lots of artificial tears, if you have a commercial eye wash you can also use that to was the eye out.
Try and get some sleep. You can take aspirin or Tylenol for pain. If you are not back to normal tomorrow you can see an ophthalmologist who can use local anesthetic and moist Q-tip to wipe high up in the space behind the eyelids to remove any bug debris.
JCH MD