My Eye.. My Eye...

I was driving that other day, when I felt an itch in my right eye. Carelessly, I rubbed it with my finger, which somehow penetrated the slit between my eyelids and grazed my eye balls... yew......!!!!!

It stopped my heart a beat, and I almost ran my car off the road. God, that was dangerous!!!

I checked my eye later on, and saw a bright red string to the inner side of my right eye. I was so tempted to believe that it was really a piece of red string (the kind that we Chinese used to tie around our wrist or finger to ward off evil spirits) sticking onto my conjunctiva (i.e. a piece of membrane that forms the outer layer of your eye ball), but I knew better. How could anyone have a piece of string in her eye and not feel any irritation? But we humans are so vulnerable at times. We choose to believe in things that we wanted to. It makes life easier.

But life is never easy. So, wake up!!!!

Life was also busy that day, which meant that I did not have the time to go find a decent doctor for a check-up. That evening, the bright colour of the string had faded to a more brownish shade. Well, that's slightly comforting. At least the inflammation had subsided.

The next day, I went to a doctor, just for the peace of my mind, and also to stop my mum from nagging and lecturing me. Sometimes I do wonder who is the one holding a p******* degree in the house, she or me?

That cuckoo of a doctor gave me steroids and antibiotic for my eye!!! After he had examined me in a darkened room, Dr. K told me that there were two spots of microhaemorrhaging in my R eye. He said that it would heal in a few days time, and in the mean time, use this...

I should have known better to listen to him in this sort of situation. I had doubts about using steroids here. The thing there then was to prevent an infection, and steroids would only make that worse. But then I thought to myself, hey, what do I know, he's the doctor. I'm only a pharm*****.

Ok, so I dropped that *cursed* eyedrop into my eye, and by lo and by ho, I got a swollen eye lid the next morning!!! Now, I really got an infection!!!

Ok, so I had an infection. Each morning for four subsequent days I woke up with hard yellow crust sealing my eye. Each morning I looked at myself in the mirror and cursed myself for not listening to myself. My eyeballs stung at times, and my eyesight was worsening. Now, I was really worried.

I went to an eye specialist on Monday morning. It was due to the weekend that I waited this long to see my second doctor. The clinic was filled with patients, mostly elderlies and their families. The lobby was so crowded that people waiting in line had to sit at the outside of the clinic.

I registered myself, and was told to wait for at least an hour. Well, an hour sounded alright given the amount of people waiting in the clinic.

Dr. T was my specialist, and he flipped opened my eyelid to have a good look under it. The swelling had subsided that morning, and I was most convinced that the infection had gone away. But the good doctor took out a sterile needle and pricked me under my lids. "Don't move your head, and don't panic... ok? Don't panic.."

He used a cotton bud to squeezed a big lump of pus out of my under-lid. Yellow pus stained with red blood. Oh, my heavenly goodness...

But it did feel so much better.

Doc gave me antibiotics, and I made sure this time that there was not steroids included. Nah ah.. no steroids for me.