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" Sorry I haven&amp;#039;t updated recently, I&amp;#039;ve been incapacitated! On the night of Halloween my eye started watering really bad, and it was red and started to swell up- gross right? Well it only got worse! I went to an event at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego called The Call, and it was wonderful but as soon as it was over my eye started freaking out again- to the point that I couldn&amp;#039;t drive home. My friend drove me home but when I couldn&amp;#039;t go to sleep that night, (I was home for the weekend) I noticed a small white spot in my eye and they took me to the ER.  Turns out I have a corneal ulcer. And I&amp;#039;ve had to have to take trips to Children&amp;#039;s Hospital about everyday to check up on the healing of my eye. Thank goodness my parents only live around 45 minutes away so that they can take me to the &amp;quot;ophthalmologist&amp;quot; appointments. They prescribed me eye drops that I had to take every two hours, even when I was sleeping! And then another eye drop three times a day to reduce the swelling and prevent scarring. I&amp;#039;m here at another doctor&amp;#039;s office right now - they say that there&amp;#039;s a change that this permanent white spot in my eye could star forever as a scar. It&amp;#039;s not that noticeable but it impairs my vision a little. We&amp;#039;re all praying that I&amp;#039;ll be fully healed! But what if I had been away from home, at college and this happened? At my school there is a medical program called SHIP, where the school provides medical insurance if you want it - or in my case, you can sign a waiver and use your own insurance as well. But there are doctors and campus and even a pharmacy. I also figured that if anything terrible really happened, UCSD is known for its awesome medical school, so I&amp;#039;d be able to go to one of its two medical centers.  Anyway, the doctors believe that this was caused because of not taking my contacts off! I&amp;#039;ll admit, I&amp;#039;ve been really bad at that since I got contacts in the 5th grade- but for the past two weeks before this happened I had been taking them off every night! I guess it was still too late. So seriously guys, take off your contacts- I know its inconvenient but you definitely don&amp;#039;t want to go through what I did. Plus, I&amp;#039;m behind in my classes because I couldn&amp;#039;t get on the computer with out the light bothering me. Have any of you guys ever gone through this, or sleep with their contacts on? Let me know! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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