Pink Eye or Not

My right eye has been bothering me for some time now. Ususally I'm fine at home but the second I entered my workplace it itches, I stick my finger in to scratch it, and the reddness immediately appears. Lately though I've been getting up out of bed and seems like only one side of my face actually wakes up. I can accept getting older and not looking like I once did. What I can't accept is having only one half of my face age! My right eye has a swollen ball underneath it and it makes my eye look like its sinking into the abyss known as my face. It sucks big time. Well today I woke up looking like I've looked for the last few days but I forged on through to work. Huge mistake on my part. Now I felt like I had to show up at work because I had to take an emergency day off yesterday due to a sewer back up (just fun, fun, fun!) and I couldn't go in as I had to move "crap" from one side of the basement to the other. As the day wore on at work today, my eye got redder and redder and it also had a lovely accompanying pain. After work I went in to see my doctor and he asked me a whole series of questions. I got there feeling angry as every person (adult) that I saw felt the expressed need to tell me my eye was red. This to them was a revealation. To me, after the first 100 times you hear this, it made me want to kick people in their eyes or much much lower. My doctor then completely examined my eyes. Yes I got them both examined! Guess what? No conjunctivitis, no pink eye. Just as I knew. He did prescribe some steroidal drops and said my eye was inflamed. I think the eye is enraged, not inflamed but I guess I'm splitting hairs. I have to put these drops in my eye every four hours and rest my eye. I have an eye patch I can wear to work so as not to contaminate my eye. I can hardly wait to get there. Oh the questions. I think I'll be telling people that I'm running off with a bunch of pirates and I'm trying to get in the mood. Or maybe I'll tell them that I'm trying out a new disguise and to see me in a week for the big reveal. I just can't stand the fact that people feel the need to comment on every component of my life. Trust me, I don't peruse their appearances with the same fine tooth comb that they put me under. Jesus it can give a girl a complex! Just for my own sake let me repeat: I DO NOT HAVE PINK EYE! I am suffering from exhaustion and a complete distaste for the stupidity of people.
On another note, while I was home yesterday I looked up the Westminster Dog Show and found that you can upload your own dog's photo to their million dog mosaic. For uploading your photo and agreeing to have your dog be part of this, Pedigree will donate one dollar to shelter dogs for each uploaded photo. Its a good cause and one you may want to check out. I believe that most dogs do not care if your eyes are pink. Pink eyes are completely acceptable in the bulldog world (actually expected) and among bunnies they can be deemed attractive. This leads me to my next thought. Anyone reading, listening to me--if you know my family at all and anyone should ask what I want as a gift for any occassion--the answer is a female bulldog. I would rather breed than work outside my home any day of the week even if I have to get up at all hours and dropper feed the pups myself. That's it. I'm done. Ahhhh, all better now.