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“And you’d deserve it,” she snaps.
“Please, Zoey, can you not be the boss lady this one time and let this one slide?” I beg.
“Fine. Move your hand and let me see.”
She uses her fingers to pull my eye open.
“Ouch. Gentle, please.”
“Oh, don’t be such a baby,” she says.
I blink up at her.
“What were you doing on the slopes without your goggles?” she asks.
“I had my sports sunglasses on.”
She rolls her eyes. “You know that’s not enough.”
“They’re polarized, and they keep the glare down. Plus, they look cooler,” I explain.
“Goggles do more than protect you from the sun,” she states.
“I know.”
She fishes a bottle of saline and an eyewash bowl from her kit. “So, tell me.”
I wince as she flushes my eye. “Huh?”
“Tell me why we wear goggles on the slopes,” she demands.
“Is this a pop quiz, Miss Phillips?”
“Yes. I want five good reasons. Now, go.”
I let out a dramatic sigh. “One, they reduce glare. So that the skier doesn’t have to squint against the brightness of the light reflecting on the snow. Two, they increase contrast. Making it easier for the skier to see and anticipate bumps ahead. Three, they protect the skier’s eyes from being irritated by cold wind and icy debris. Four, they protect the skier from branches and twigs if they run off into the tree line.”
Once it’s clean, she adds two steroid drops, and I look side to side a couple of times to make sure it coats my eyeball.
“And?”
“Sorry, Coach, that’s all I got.”
She frowns at me.
“And, five, they will never fall off when you are racing down a slope at a high speed,” she says.
I grin. “Touché.”
“If you wouldn’t let one of your students ski without it, you don’t ski without it. Got it?”
“Got it, boss.”
“Good.”
She unwraps a sterile patch and gently presses it into my tender skin around my eye. “There you go.”
“So, what’s the prognosis, Doc?” I ask.
