Luke 6:42
I HAVE JUST GOT OUT OF MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL, where a kindly Filipino nurse removed a dot that has been bugging me since last night.
Bugging is hardly the word. Out on the street, around midnight, something blew into my eye. I looked and looked and could not see it. No amount of washing seemed to get it out. So I closed my eyes and slept with it in... woke up crying. Cried all morning. It was a bright sunshiny day. I nearly got run over as I could not see in the bright light.The situation was so bad I could barely keep my eyes open.
At midday I took a bus to Old Street. You cannot get there by tube so a bus it had to be. Because I had to close my eyes, I slept most of the journey.
At Accident & Emergency I was told it was a two-to-three hour wait but I was seen in under an hour.
I was hoping they would use some sort of contraption rather than get you to tilt the head back, and they did. The Asian lady put in three types of drops ~ the best were the anaesthetic ones because they made me feel cured. She looked at my eye under various coloured lights. Got out the speck, which was the tiniest thing ever ~ a dot of dust. Checked my eye again and said it was scratched. So now I'm taking antibiotic drops and my eye looks like the incredible hulk's.I have to go as it still hurts to keep it open, but at least it's no longer crying. It doesn't feel that much better than this morning, but the "smote" or whatever it's called hss barely been out for a couple of hours.
Got to go and close my eyes...
6 comments:
Something similar happened to me years (lots of) ago when I was on holiday and I spent three days in bed unable to open my eye! :(
I'm glad that you got it out. Take care and rest those eyes. Good excuse for a nap.
Ouchies. No good. I think we've all been through that at some stage. Yeh, rest up. You'll be right in a couple of days.
Poor boy ! that's awful getting something in the eyes ! I prefer (if I had to choose) a twisted ankle ! You must look very sexy with Hulk eyes !
Akelamalu: didn't they have an eye hospital nearby? Did you get a doctor? Weren't they able to do anything? I'm so glad I got to an EYE hospital, like I was told, they're really really good, you could tell they knew exactly what they were doing ~ not like normal casualty where you know, even though they don't admit it, that they might well be seeing something they've never encountered before ~ like the "barbiturate burn" I had 2 or 3 years ago. Nurses crowded in the room to look at this "barbiturate injector".. I had to tell them I've never seen a barbiturate in my life! It was just brown heroin and someone else had tipped the barbs in without telling me!!
Syd: I slept for hours & hours and hours, far better now, thanks!
Baino: it's all right now ~ well it seems to be. I'm tired and depressed but the eye is doing really well!!
Gattina: my eye look(-ed; thankfully it's far better now) a lot of things, sexy wasn't really one of them! But thanks for the compliment, it's a nice idea ;->...
Eyes are sooo sensitive, glad they got it out ok*!*
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