That's what I keep telling myself, anyway. Nah, I look worse.

I woke up yesterday morning and looked in the mirror - and something looked off about my eyes. One of them wasn't opened as wide as the other. I looked more closely and noticed that the skin on my left eyelid was swollen and my eye wouldn't open as far as normal. I immediately called my dad and he took me to the doctor to make sure it wasn't pinkeye. Turns out it's most likely a sty. It got a lot worse over the course of yesterday and was even worse when I woke up this morning, but I think that was from sleep, because it went down a little. I look horrible though :P I did some more research and found that since it's a bacterial condition, I can use Neosporin on it. Thank goodness, because that is the only other thing I can do besides a warm compress every few hours.

I don't mind it too much - it doesn't hurt, it's just uncomfortable, especially when I try to look up - but tomorrow my brother's having a big cookout here for his birthday, and I'm going to look like this and his friends will make fun of me. I know, I know - it's not THAT big a deal. But his friends can really be jerks. I don't like them at all.

Have any of you ever had a sty? How long did it take for it to go away, and what did you do to treat it?