Public Service Announcement

Public Service Announcement

Please use extreme caution when you are untangling strands of lights.

If you're not careful, the plug, as seen here:

...can suddenly take on a life of it's own and fly up and take a chunk out of your eye.

You may then be sick to your wimpy stomach when you closely examine your eye in the mirror. You might feel slight panic when your husband tells you that it looks like you have a piece of glass in your eye. Because you know it's not glass. It's actually several layers of your eye somehow pealed back.

Then you would have to ignore your important and long to-do list that you just made for the day and instead spend 4 hours in the ER. Because of course this can only happen on a Saturday of a three day weekend.

And you would feel kind of dumb sitting in the ER with all those people who have crazy serious injuries. And want to randomly tell someone, "Yeah...me? I have a little scratch. Just thought I'd come get it checked out."

But then you're glad you got it checked out when you may finally hear the doctor say, "Oh wow. You really took a chunk out of your eye. All things considered...you're really lucky...if that had been just even slightly to the left and hit your pupil instead...."

Oh, and it would hurt. Like...a lot. But luckily your little boys are so sweet and can say a prayer for you and it could suddenly not hurt so much.

But luckily, if this did happen--apparently eyes heal amazingly fast. The human body is truly amazing. So life goes on.

But there may be lasting negative side effects--like the fear that strikes your heart when you see Christmas lights or even just plugs thereafter.

And yet, the side effects may not be all negative. It might make you wonder in the future why that to-do list seems so critical all the time, yet when a little injury happens, it can suddenly all be put on hold. No longer a priority. It might make you wonder how often those "critical" to-do items could be put on hold to do things that really matter. Like sitting down to play with your kids more or just playing more Mad Gab with your son (see next post).

End Public Service Announcement

(Please note--The images pictured above are not the actual items referred to in the public service announcement--but do carry a certain likeness that will assist you in recognizing the items in question.)