I just left the eye doctor for what I thought was pink eye. It actually turned out to be a small piece of metal lodged in my left eye. To say that it was painful would be a mild understatement, so I just want to put out a reminder to be careful working on your cars this summer because getting sidelined for something like this sucks bad, especially when a pair of $5 safety glasses would have prevented it. This has cost me a full day of working on my car yesterday and half a day of work today and I've got another appointment tomorrow to make sure it's not infected.

Thanks all

to follow up with the full story, last weekend I was installing the trailer hitch and while drilling the 1" access hole in the frame, I got a chunk of metal in my eye. That was painful enough, and I thought it was gone after a few days, but I guess 1 last little piece stayed in there and Saturday night it decided it was time to come out. I spent Sunday laying in bed with my eyes closed debating on going to the Emergency room or gutting it out until Monday morning. At the time I didn't know what was going on, and based on the color of my eye, I thought it was just pink eye. Fortunately, the 1st doc I saw this morning didn't think it was pink eye because of the pain, lack of discharge from my eyes and the fact that I had been working under my car so he sent me to optometry where they were able to find the small piece of metal still in there. My vision is a little worse in that eye, but for me "bad vision" is only 20/20. I was still able to read the 20/13 line with both eyes open, and they think I'll be back to normal in a few days. They got me on 2 different eye drops for the next week or so and I'm going back in tomorrow for another check up.