Recently I got called to the emergency room to see a patient who presented after a full day of excruciating one-sided eye pain. After a very thorough exam by not only the ER resident but an attending as well, I was called and they said, "We just don't see anything wrong. Please help us and come see this patient."
"No problem," I said. I was sure something simply got missed. I talked to the patient who told me about how he had been working in his fields the prior day - working around a lot of soy seeds. At the time, I didn't know what soy seeds looked like, but now I can say they look like this:
At any rate, the exam was superficially unrevealing except for an angry red eye.
But after flipping the lids and peeking underneath, I found what appeared to be a small shell of a seed, not but a couple millimeters in size.
The ER docs were nearly embarrassed for not having found it. I told them it was quite alright. The fact is, I flip someone's lids inside out nearly daily, and have become damn good at getting a good look at everything there is to see under there.
It's okay - I'm an eye doctor. We are better at examining eyes - I hope - than you. Just like you are better at placing chest tubes than us.
Is that enough pictures, Jess?
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