I had yellow tears last night.  Like NEON YELLOW TEARS.  I’d actually write that in yellow color but no one would be able to see it.

So I went to the eye doctor last night and told him how my left eye has been very irritable lately when I wear my contacts.  After some examination he discovered I had a minor form of giant papillary conjunctivitis.  Basically little bumps on the inside of my eyelid.  Which is why it still feels like something is still under my eyelid when I take out my contacts. He prescribes Alaway, an over the counter anti-allergy eye drop, figuring that it will go away with a week of no contact wearing and a different kind of contacts with a softer edge to them.

He also decides to look for glaucoma, which requires putting a little anesthetic on my eyes.  No problem there.

On the way home I stop and buy the Alaway (14 dollars…. crazy for eye drops).  I get home and head to the bathroom to put them in.  Immediately I start tearing up with neon yellow tears.  I wipe them away with a tissue (which itself soaks up the tears and has neon yellow polka dots where I dabbed).  If it wasn’t so bizarre it would be kind of cool.  I searched online for Neon Yellow Tears and only find the band Yellow Tears.  At least I think they are a band.

I can’t imagine I”m the only person this has ever happened to, but no one else has had neon yellow tears that I’ve found on the internet.  I’ve found yellow tears (but not neon) linked with jaundice.  I’m fairly certain I don’t have jaundice, and these weren’t tinted yellow, they were neon yellow.

Thankfully when I put the Alaway in this morning the tears were normal and clear.  It was just a reaction between the Alaway and whatever anesthetic the eye doctor gave me, but man it was bizarre.