Sty with me

Let me begin telling of my woeful morning by first explaining a backstory most pertinent to this incident.

Last night I had in a fit of spice filled goodness chopped up a few chilies of varied colours and species to add oomph to a dish I was cooking up.

A rather adventurous okra dish and to that I needed a bit of cracking fire; of course I deseed all my chillies when they're put in copious quantities and since a few of them were typically fire brand chillies I took it upon me to gut almost all with the aid of a spoon and fingers.

The most important thing to do after feeding your fingers so much capsaicin is wash hands as thoroughly as nearly impossible and then wash them again, which I did..zealously so.

So dinner got done, dishes got washed, desert was had.
Sometime between sleep and watching tv my eyes felt irritated from some dust particle no doubt and I proceeded to rub my left eye with the insouciant caution of a teenager practicing safe sex, which is to say I blithely rubbed at my eye only to burst into a maelstrom of screams and shouts moments later.

Turns out, no matter how well you wash your hands there's always a minimal capsaicin residue left intact in some minute quantities perhaps in the little indents between the almost invisible scales of your finger, perhaps tucked away inside a finger nail..these oils that come from the skin of chilies, even capsicum can be heartless and they were so when my eye began burning like a building on conflagration with no fire station in sight.

I must have jumped, ran, cursed all in one go, because the next thing I did was plunge my face into water without coming up for air.

It kept stinging a bit for sometime after that, less viciously of course and I thought my agony was at an end..until this morning.
I woke up with a raging sty and though the reasons for this could be plenty, I blame the chili rubbing action from last night.

I hate it! It's not painful but it throbs a bit and makes its presence felt.
I hate sty's and this particular one happens to have sprouted on the lower lid.

Gah, this is the last time I deseed chillies.