Remember this guy?

and remember how I said that everything healed remarkably well and we lived happily ever after?

Well...it wasn't that simple after all.

As if a wretching dog wasn't enough...

Mike decided he needed to add a little drama to our lives last week as well. 

We thought the eye injury was over and done when Mike's eye started to bother him again.

The irritation got worse...and worse...until eventually his eye was all bloodshot and he had tears running down his face.  This was making church and work and pretty much any public life rather awkward.  And while "awkward" is a way of life for me...for a guy who doesn't like to draw attention to himself, Mike doesn't "do" awkward very well.  But more importantly, his eye was sensitive to light and his vision was deteriorating and so we ended up here:

His eye doctor did a thorough examination, some sort of a dye test, and swabbed under his eyelid to be sure there weren't any foreign objects in his eye.  It really wasn't that bad, but if you know Mike, you probably know where this is going...  Yeah, this attendant shows up in the waiting room.  "Mrs. Amundson?  Could you come with me?  Your husband isn't feeling well." I walk into a dark room where Mike is reclining in an exam chair, eyes closed with a cool cloth across his forehead and a glass of water in his hand... That was awkward...  Ha!  ;-) It wasn't that big of a deal--this is nothing unusual for Mike.  But you could tell that Dr. Johnson and the rest of the staff were quite concerned.  Apparently they don't have patients black out in the exam chair every day... There were no foreign objects in his eye after all, and while we're not exactly sure, it appears that he must have scratched his eye when he fell which apparently caused him to gradually develop a sensitivity to his contact lens solution.  At least, that's their theory.  They gave him some medicated eye drops and told him to stay out of contacts as much as possible till he's symptom free. So, he's been to the eye doctor twice last week and once this week.  His eye improves every day and he should recover completely. I feel like we've sorta been in the Twilight Zone the last week or so... We have some fun things planned for the next few days, and I'm looking forward to some "normal" family time again...Lord willing...