My Seussical Life for 2004 March 28

This morning I was dicing a jalepeno pepper to go into a crock pot of chili and I got a splatter of jalepeno juice in my eyeball. Dave promptly called the poison control center, and they advised that I keep flushing my eye out with saline solution to soothe it and minimize the chemical burning. So, for future reference, if you ever get peppers in your eye, just rinse it with saline solution (apparently tap water has chlorine and all sorts of other chemicals that would further irritate the eye).