Day 1 - For Your Eyes Only

I looked up "pink eye" at a web site and was able to read a bit of it before leaving home. From what I could see, there were three causes: allergens, bacteria (highly contagious), and viruses. Doctors treat the bacterial kind with antibiotics, but the viral kinds aren't treatable that way. I supposed that I might've had an allergic reaction to something--I'd had it before at Fort Hill Christian Youth Camp in the summer of 1997 and it had been diagnosed as an allergy. It had happened to only one eye, caused it to become extremely red, and had gone away when I took Benadryl. That did not happen this week, so I decided to give up Benadryl.

My eye became less reddish after going off Benadryl than it had gotten while I was still taking Benadryl. I thought this was "interesting." For most of the trip, my right eye would stay a light shade of pink whenever I looked at it myself. This would factor into how I would be spending part of the week later on.