Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The optometrist removed a piece of rock from my left eye today. It had been in there for 16 days. So painful. My regular doctor had looked at it and thought I had a broken blood vessel (there are several blood vessels visible at the moment). But it wouldn't go away and my friend Ahmed from Oman insisted I go to the eye doctor, which I finally did this morning. He numbed the eye and coaxed me into keeping it open while he removed the particle using a long cotton swab. The relief was almost instantaneous.
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The rock was lodged right between my iris and cornea. I could see something there, but didn't realize what it was. I have spent a lot of time staring at my iris the last two weeks. This got me thinking about eye colors. From my genealogical research, I have been able to identify the eye colors of the following direct ancestors:
Homer: hazel
Parents:
Lee: blue
Carolyn: hazel
Maternal Grandparents:
Harold: blue
Anna: hazel
Great grandparents:
Sheldon: blue
Ernest: brown
Colonel: blue
Great great grandparents:
Isaiah: gray
Philip: blue
Elijah: blue
Great great great grandparents:
Ebenezer: blue
Hiram: black
Homer and Carolyn.
