The Story of THE PATCH!

I was going to wait until I posted the video but apparently people are really curious as to why I have a huge patch on my face in some of my pictures...

Here's the story. The full story.

Somewhere closer to the beginning of the second half of the Future of Forestry Christmas Tour we had to drive from Simi Valley to Surprise, AZ. However, it took us 4 hours to get from Simi Valley just to Fontana which usually should only take maybe 2 hours tops. So you could imagine what kind of boredom we were feeling. So somewhere in like the Monterey Park/Montebello area I started filming Dave in the "confessional booth" scene. That's when something flew into my eye. I was convinced it was an ant but no one believes me. Apparently Teej thinks a bird punched me in the eye. And there's a small yet unsurfaced rumor that Boom punched me. But I guess all of them are untrue. Something flew into to my eye and my eye started crying. I thought it came out but it still felt like something was in there. Imagine what it would feel like if a toothpick was stuck in your eye. That's what it felt like.

Anywho...

We drove to AZ and my eye was in pain. I went to bed that night and I woke up with my eye the size of a golf ball. I looked like the hunchback of notre dame. Most of the poofyness was due to the non stop weeping. I couldn't look out my left eye so cossing the street was hard. I even wore a toilet paper roll around my neck because my eye would just keep crying. I made the guyssome pizzas but after that I just stayed in bed because it's amazing how much life can be drained out of you by ONE EYEBALL. So Tam decides that it's time for urgent care. I had never been to urgent care before.

This part was cool though...

So first the doctor put these numbing drops in my eye. Hurt like hell. But I didn't feel anything after that. Then he put some kind of glow in the dark stuff in my eye and he turned off the lights and put a blacklight over me. Told me to move my eye around and he found 2 scratches. One big one and one little one. So he gave me some drops to put in my eye and he put a patch on me. Now, this patch was no ordinary patch. It was about 20 gauze strips thick and was bound to my face with these huge pieces of some kind of masking tape. It was RIDICULOUS. But thankfully the only people who would see me with it on was the guys...

NOT! 24 hours of that stupid eye patch. Little kids were running behind their mommys asking what was wrong with me. I also ran into many walls at first and eating was really hard. I had a depth perception deficiency for about 5 hours. I finally got used to it though.

But by sunday it was all better. I was able to enjoy being able to see with both eyes.

I'm all better now. Good memories.