owie eyes

On Thursday afternoon my eye started feeling like I had something in it. So I itched it. And itched some more. The next morning I woke up with both eyes crusted over and so swollen I couldn't keep them open. Jeff managed to get me into a doctor that morning and the doc thought I was having allergy-induced pink eye. We told him it was 3 days before Jeff's brother's wedding and we needed it taken care of ASAP. He said to take Claritin and some over the counter eye drops and it would clear up in a few days. That afternoon the swelling went down quite a bit. My eyes just looked like I'd been crying a bit. I'd been told I wasn't contagious so I went off with the gals for a pre-wedding mani/pedi outting and dinner. My eyes were getting really achey by the end of the night but I didn't have any swelling. On Saturday I woke up to a swollen mess again and started getting really tender spots on my jawline and Jeff started feeling like one of his eyes was going bad. So we went to an urgent care clinic together. We asked to be seen together. I wore dark glasses because my eyes were bright red and swollen. I think most people probably thought we were there for some STD checkup or something. The nurses and doctor were pretty grossed out when I took my glasses off. The doctor pretty much kept her distance from both Jeff and me and just wrote out a prescription for bacterial pinkeye treatment. She said I also had some cellulitis causing the swelling. So that was 3pm and we were on 24 hour countdown to the wedding now. We missed out on the rehearsal dinner and all the pre-wedding fun (some of which I'd even planned!). Needless to say we were sooo bummed. We put in our eyedrops even more often than we were supposed to for several hours in the hopes we'd be okay by today, wedding day, and went to bed. I woke up this morning looking like this:


That's as far as my eyes open cause it's all swollen above and below them. You can kind of see weird puckering next to my eyes where it goes back down to where everything is supposed to live. My face is kinda puffy and swollen too. It was actually pretty uncomfortable going to sleep cause I have weird lumps (lymph nodes?) swelling up in my face. I've been trying to lay with my eyes closed most of the morning and the swelling is going down a little bit. But my eyes are very red and watery. So I'm not sure if I'm going to make it to the wedding or not. Jeff's one eye is still red but doesn't look too horrible. He'll be through 24 hours of antibiotic so will be through the contagious period in another couple of hours just as he's supposed to meet the rest of the groomsmen for lunch. I'm still not even convinced that this weird mutant thing going on with me is pink eye. I haven't had any goopiness in my eyes. They're just red and swollen. I dunno. So far nothing is helping them.