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To have screamed at DH about the eyedrops?

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ThatsABitExcessive · 17/07/2025 06:27

Last year DH and I got sore itchy hayfever eyes. I bought some drops. A few days later DH came home and announced that we had been doing the eye drops wrong - Shiela from work had told him that rather than dropping it directly into the eye - you should drop it onto the corner of your nose and let the liquid roll into your eye. I said I disagreed with Shiela and would continue doing it properly my way.

He spent all summer doing it Sheila’s way.

Now yesterday I bought some more drops as we’re struggling again. DH said to me “don’t forget, it’s corner of the nose and let it run in”

I screamed and said that’s stupid! Just drop it into the bloody eye like a normal person!! He continues to say I’m doing it wrong and last night I had to sit and watch him dropping these bloody drops onto his face with his eyes closed!!??

The most annoying bit about it - Sheila has no medical experience. I’m an ex-qualified nurse - yet DH takes Sheila’s word as gospel!

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ThatsABitExcessive · 17/07/2025 06:37

londongirl12 · 17/07/2025 06:35

So he’d let an eye drop roll over his dirty face and into his eye? Weird.
why are you screaming at him though???

Yes, I actually said to him “so you let your eye drop roll across your skin - carrying with it a load of bacteria - into your eye?! Why not just drop it directly into the eye?! Make it make sense!

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FourEyesGood · 17/07/2025 06:37

Do people really scream at each other?

londongirl12 · 17/07/2025 06:35

So he’d let an eye drop roll over his dirty face and into his eye? Weird.
why are you screaming at him though???

FamilyPhoto · 17/07/2025 06:34

I feel your pain @ThatsABitExcessive
Last year DH had a significant illness and would listen to any random person over me and its the speciality Ive worked longest in
It wasn't untill he deteriorated and I took over his full care that he had the stunning relevation that I actually knew what I was doing.

ThymeandBasil · 17/07/2025 06:32

Does he always do what Sheila tells him to?
Who is she and why does she have such an influence over him?
And he really comes over as not very bright if he really thinks that's the correct way to apply eye drops.

TheCurious0range · 17/07/2025 06:30

You are being unreasonable to scream at someone. Lovely bedside manner 😂