Healing vibes needed please. Updated

[hlthe2b]

15. As has been mentioned, corneal abrasions are intensely painful so I'm sure they will stain his eye to check

(after appropriately numbing the eye with proparacaine)... It sounds like he has dry eye syndrome, so that does put him at special risk of surface corneal injury. Those who have ever worn HARD contact lenses have undoubtedly experienced that intense pain, and even though he doesn't, these surface injuries can occur for a lot of other reasons, including foreign bodies, styes, etc.

So, while it could certainly be something else, I would think that they would want to rule this out. Even ER docs would/should do the evaluation above for acute pain, no matter how much they want to refer to ophthalmologists.

Good luck!