I probably caught the cold from getting rained on. When it started raining this afternoon, they woke me up and had me go outside to cover the hot-water tank.
The weather forecast said there might be hail, and they were afraid it would get damaged. Last year, there was hail as big as fists.
I knew why my eyes hurt. When my mom woke me up this morning because she had something to do, they already felt like there was eye gunk in them—a foreign-body sensation.
But when I looked in the mirror, there was nothing. Then I noticed my eyes...
Other people have bloodshot veins in the whites of their eyes. Mine had tiny bits of white mixed into all the red veins, like I had pinkeye.
At first, I couldn't even sleep. Whenever I closed my eyes, the foreign-body sensation made my tears keep flowing. It felt like sand had gotten in them—painful and miserable. It only got a little better after hurting for two hours. I slept almost the entire day today.
I'm still unbelievably sleepy. My vision is blurry again, my head hurts, and the words are all doubled...