Black Swan

On Monday morning, Andrew left town for the week. On Monday afternoon my eye started itching.  By Tuesday morning it looked like this...

By Tuesday night the other eye was infected.  Wednesday morning I woke up and both my eyes were sealed shut.  I found a doctor--the verdict-- an "impressively bad" case of conjunctivitis in both eyes.   

All week, while I looked like a leper, I was grateful.  Andrew might have been gone, my mom may have been recovering from a month of taking care of grandchildren and not able to help, but I didn't have to try to go to two weddings and C and D's first days of school looking like I had just boiled my eyes.