Quick and embarrassing visit to the eye doc yesterday

Not medical, but equally embarrassing...and expensive. Three houses ago, we were using the refrigerator (older but working just fine) the previous owners left behind. The freezer was the upper compartment and suddenly, the door wouldn't seal when closed. We look at the seal, wondered if there was an alignment problem with the hinges, tried rearranging the frozen food we had. We resorted to using a baby-proof lock to keep it closed and called an appliance repair person.

He arrived, heard our story, and took a look. Right away, he reached in and pulled out a coated wire rack I'd put in to create a "shelf" and more space. The legs of the rack were preventing the door from closing and sealing.

Duh. Major duh. We still laugh about it!

When my oldest dd was about 5, she was complaining about a sore in her mouth. It was this big, white, pus-filled sore on her upper gums. I take her to the pediatrician and the nurse says "I think she's growing another tooth!" and we're all up in arms until the doctor comes in, pushes it away and says "it was a corn kernel."

I somewhat hate eye doctors after one certain visit. I have bad migraines. My vision was blurry. I wanted my eyes checked. I told the dr that I was concerned that my migraines were making my vision blurry.

After the "Better One, Better Two" game, he said, "Well, I know what the problem is!"

He circled my age on my chart and handed it to me.

WTF. I think at the time I was around 41/42.

My DH has done something similar, but it was when he grabbed MY replacement boxes of contact lenses vs HIS. He never said a word until I went to grab another box and there were none to be found, only then did he realize his blurry vision issue. Dude.

Like that time in college I went to the ER convinced I was having some kind of heart attack/issue (in my defense I do have a heart murmur that had been recently diagnosed) and one very expensive dose of GI cocktail later, I was good to be discharged with a diagnosis of gas. 🤪

I took my roommate to the ER with the same complaints - except she thought it was appendicitis - same diagnosis. 

Thank you for making me grin, because it's so easy to do things like that. My DH has put his contacts in the wrong eyes as well. He also had a lens completely fall out of his glasses without noticing once, and wondered for most of the day why he suddenly couldn't see properly. He was getting seriously worried until he tried to clean them.

My Mum has done the classic thing of searching the house for her glasses - which were on her head. She also panicked herself in the bathroom one morning after forgetting she'd eaten a lot of beetroot the night before. Thankfully she didn't get as far as the doctor. Bless her!

ETA: I forgot, I was taken to the GP several times in my teens for abdominal pain that they thought was appendicitis. Turned out to be severe ovulation pain, which I've had most of my life and nearly every month on the right side. Had to wait until I was 49 to get the dratted, broken, useless, shouty ovary removed.

Thanks for sharing some funny stories that made me laugh this afternoon.

These are awesome! Thanks for the laughs, friends!

Thank God that's all it was!!  Don't be embarrassed.  We all have things that keep our brains on overload; that's all.......

I’ve put both contacts in the same eye before. I did figure it out before going to the eye dr, but it was close. My husband recently mixed up his contacts and was concerned he couldn’t see until I suggested he switch them to see if that was the problem — it was.

These stories are hysterical! femalebusiness I guffawed out loud at your story. Please tell your BIL that a stranger 14,000km away is now razzing him about it too!