Here's poo in my eye

Can't believe I did it again.

Some months ago I wrote here about the excruciating pain that follows when you unwittingly flick toothpaste into your eye.

Not deliberately of course, but if you're not careful a little bit of toothpaste borne on a globule of one's own spit can easily carve out a trajectory from toothbrush to cornea.

Well determined not to make that mistake again I am super careful with my toothbrush.

Alas there is a new threat to my ocular integrity. This time in the form of poo. Or maybe Sudocrem.

I was changing our little guy into his bedclothes and of course he had managed to fill up his nappy with some revolting mush from his prodigious bowels. The stench was overpowering. He had managed to get a nice coverage from his upper to his lower as it were.

I was wiping and dabbing, cleaning and cleansing. I then applied a little Sudocrem, a zinc-based skin cream, to his nappy area to keep the old nappy rash at bay.

Well me being a man I declined to clean my hands properly. Just like guys who fix their cars or lawnmowers at the weekend, why bother with proper hand washing when a quick wipe on the front of whatever one is wearing will suffice.

So, I gave the hands a quick dip but that was it.

And now my eye is sore. It could be the acidic poo. It could be the zinc-based cream.

Either way my eye is sore and I know I rubbed something in it that it was not designed to deal with.

My wife has delivered the Clear Eyes to me. These drops are great for sore eyes. Alas they can do nothing for my (repeat) stupidity.

Now I shall retire for the evening to dream about chocolate cakes.

Adieu.