oddest gym injury, ever

so last night i was working out with miss jenn at our fabulous local Y & after our workout & stretching she tells me that her right eye is bugging her something fierce. she keeps rubbing at it making her eye redder & redder, most likely by scraping the surface of her eyeball on the foreign object.

& even though it seemed kind of wrong, standing in the cardio room next to the water fountain, i offered to take a look to see if i could determine the object of her agitation. she pulled at her eye lids & yup, sure enough, she had an eye lash stuck vertically in her eye. i offered to pull it out, but was upfront with the fact that i was hestitant about the whole thing because i thought maybe she might flinch causing my fingernail to scrape her cornea which wouldn't be good for either one of us. & jenn didn't want her eye gouged out by my fingernail & i didn't want any eyeball goo on my nails, so we scratched that plan, no pun intended.

i told her the eye lash was right there & i was sure she could get it out if she looked in the mirror, so we headed to the bathroom. jenn stood nose to nose with the bathroom mirror, which i thought to be a brave thing because i don't trust any public bathroom anywhere. she saw the renegade eyelash, poked at it, prodded it, & stamped her feet several times after it stayed firmly lodged in place.

once again, it was my turn to look. she turned towards me, looked down, then up, & i couldn't believe what i saw. i told her "you're not going to like this." & she didn't. what i saw what that she had a long eye lash growing out from the underside of her eyelid, pointing straight down. most bizarre thing i've seen in quite a while. i told her i had a tweezers in my purse, just in case she wanted that to be an option. & of course it wasn't, since if she didn't want my long elvira nails near her eye why would she want me near it with a sharp pointed metal object?

jenn continued rubbing her eye & *poof* the eye lash was out of her eye & on her finger tip. as she looked in the mirror jenn noticed there was a rather significant hole in her upper eye lid, which, to be frank, creeped me out just the wee teeniest little bit. she then did some examinations & noticed tiny pinprick holes in both lower lids, & then noticed there was a hole on her upper left eye lid, matching the one that the stray eyelash came out of just moments before.

it then dawned on us, somehow an eyelash fell out of her eyelid, into her eye & then proceeded to shove itself up into her tear duct.

yeah, so weirdest gym injury ever: miss jenn got an eyelash in her tear duct as a result of stretching post elliptical.