Heather's Wedding

I wake up the morning of my wedding and go to wash my face and feel like I have something in my eye. I did all the tricks you are told to do to try and get it out, all to no avail. After a half hour, I was getting really frustrated. One of my bridesmaids father is a doctor so he looked at it and said I must have scratched either the inside of my eyelid or my actual eye. Are you KIDDING ME? How did I live to be 21 years old and never have this happen before, ever, but on the morning of my wedding! So I finally figured out it did not hurt when my eye was open, but when I blinked it got really irritated. Well, that wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to ever blink!

At this point my mom is freaking out so we call the family doctor who is in town for the wedding and he goes to the pharmacy and gets this stuff called lacrolube. It's like a gel to put in my eye. I was really nervous because I didn't know if it would make my eye droop or look weird so I agreed to let him put it in after we got to the reception and had taken pictures. What was supposed to be a relaxing day with my friends ended up being me crying and holding a cold rag on my eye! I remember getting into the limo with my dad to go to the church and just crying! I even looked like I was crying all the way down the aisle, but it was just my eye hurting making it water!

So we make it to the reception where I promptly take two loratab for pain and the doctor puts the medicine in after the pictures. Well it worked! It completely numbed my eye so I couldn't feel it. (the medicine I am sure had something to do with it!) SO I was able to really enjoy my reception. I had a blast dancing and hanging out with my friends and family and completely forgot about my eye. Now we can look back on it and laugh, but at the time oh it was awful! Of course, to this day, after 2 and ½ years, I have still never scratched my eye like that again.

I can't wait to get to heaven and ask God why all of that happened! I am sure we will have a good laugh over it.

~Heather