Ow! My Eye!

Once again, I scratched my cornea.

Yesterday, while cleaning up the basement after installing the new windows, I went to screw a hook into the beam above my head, and the drywall screw fell. Into my eye. blunt end first.
Yeah, it hurt. But after getting a little freaked, I decided that I was okay. That it would hurt less given some time.

Now, I have a long history of damaging my eyes.
Paint in the eye.
And then there was what I now call "the bad year". The year where I screwed up my eyes three times. One of those times was the wrong contact chemical in my eye, which resulted in scars to my cornea. That was the year, I started wearing glasses.
A piece of glitter in the eye.

The list goes on. Maybe it's my job, the type of work that I do. The paint and construction. The sanding and aging.

And it seems that if I'm not doing something to my eyes that takes me to the Emergency Eye Center, then I'm taking a co-worker instead.
(Luckily there is such a good Eye Center in town.)

I've had Lasik surgery. I no longer wear glasses. I do try to wear safety glasses at work when I know that I need them.

But so many times, like with the glitter, I'm at home. Doing something simple and it happens. Again. No one wears eye protection all the time.

I get almost a premonition at this point that I'm about to screw up an eyeball. I guess I need to start listening to that fear.

So last night, I go to bed at midnight, my eye hurts, but it has to feel better in the morning, right?
No, I wake at 2:30 am. And it really HURTS. I look in the mirror, my eye is swollen and red. Watering endlessly. I shower, I mess around on the internet. I debate.
I haul my ass down the Emergency room at 4 am.

They tell me that I have a large scratch on my cornea.

Is there anyone else out there like me?
Why am I always doing this?

Please tell me your stories.
Eye pain sucks.