Went to bed New Years eve at 9:30 P.M. , around 5 A.M. New Years day I felt something in my right eye and still half asleep rubbed it. DAM !!!! That hurts , really hurts.
5:15 up and in the bathroom trying to rinse what ever it is out of my eye. The dam thing will not move , just keeps hurting.I'm sure the eye clinic opens around 9 or a little later.
9:20 called the eye clinic and got a recording to leave a message since they were busy with customers. I waited for a call back but it never came so in to the eye clinic , CLOSED........... Next stop , Urgent choice health care ...Closed.
Over to Walgreens for a eye wash kit and eye cup.
Home and rinsing my eye , Hurting more... no relief. OK I will have to tough it out till Thursday and see the eye doc.
2:00 P.M. Can't stand it anymore I'm going to the E.R. at the new hospital.
Driving by Urgent Care they are open so I do a U turn and go back to them. I asked , you weren't open at 9 like you usually are , no we opened at 10 today.
In to see the Doc and with some numbing drops , yellow dye and with a black light he sees what he calls a small black seed in the upper center portion of the eye.
He takes a Q tip and chases the "Seed" over to the right corner of the eye and eventually gets it. No fun when he was doing that , even with the dreading drops in the eye it still hurt pretty bad.
Next stop is across the clinic to the eye wash station and rinsing both eyes for 5 minutes. Just to make sure everything is out. He prescribed some antibiotic eye drops so off to the pharmacy for them .and then home.
Thursday...( 01-02-2020 ) Call the eye clinic and got a 12:00 emergency appointment.
Doc checks the eye and tells me there are some deep gouges to the outer layer and they appear to be healing. Also to use the prescribed eye drops 4 times a day for 7 days plus some eye ointment when I go to bed and then start a different eye ointment Saturday and use it for 3 months.
Friday .. the eye is feeling better and better all the time.
Saturday
Back to the doc at the eye clinic and he tells me it appears to be 90% healed and to still keep using the ointment for that 3 months time span.
The eye clinic doc I saw Thursday was the doc who had the duty Wednesday and can not figure out why her pager did not go off and alert her and why I got the recording instead.
I can tell you that damage to the eye hurts ( Made me think a needle was being poked into it ) a really good 12 out of a 1-10 rating. It will get your attention really FAST.
Been one week today and it's a lot better , almost back to normal.
In this time span the wife was to the pain clinic for her back , then later to the Urgent care for a strep infection. I visited the dentist for a crown which is missing a small piece of it. Going to be a good year for the Doctors.
So all I can say is that ....So far 2020 Sucks !!!!
5:15 up and in the bathroom trying to rinse what ever it is out of my eye. The dam thing will not move , just keeps hurting.I'm sure the eye clinic opens around 9 or a little later.
9:20 called the eye clinic and got a recording to leave a message since they were busy with customers. I waited for a call back but it never came so in to the eye clinic , CLOSED........... Next stop , Urgent choice health care ...Closed.
Over to Walgreens for a eye wash kit and eye cup.
Home and rinsing my eye , Hurting more... no relief. OK I will have to tough it out till Thursday and see the eye doc.
2:00 P.M. Can't stand it anymore I'm going to the E.R. at the new hospital.
Driving by Urgent Care they are open so I do a U turn and go back to them. I asked , you weren't open at 9 like you usually are , no we opened at 10 today.
In to see the Doc and with some numbing drops , yellow dye and with a black light he sees what he calls a small black seed in the upper center portion of the eye.
He takes a Q tip and chases the "Seed" over to the right corner of the eye and eventually gets it. No fun when he was doing that , even with the dreading drops in the eye it still hurt pretty bad.
Next stop is across the clinic to the eye wash station and rinsing both eyes for 5 minutes. Just to make sure everything is out. He prescribed some antibiotic eye drops so off to the pharmacy for them .and then home.
Thursday...( 01-02-2020 ) Call the eye clinic and got a 12:00 emergency appointment.
Doc checks the eye and tells me there are some deep gouges to the outer layer and they appear to be healing. Also to use the prescribed eye drops 4 times a day for 7 days plus some eye ointment when I go to bed and then start a different eye ointment Saturday and use it for 3 months.
Friday .. the eye is feeling better and better all the time.
Saturday
Back to the doc at the eye clinic and he tells me it appears to be 90% healed and to still keep using the ointment for that 3 months time span.
The eye clinic doc I saw Thursday was the doc who had the duty Wednesday and can not figure out why her pager did not go off and alert her and why I got the recording instead.
I can tell you that damage to the eye hurts ( Made me think a needle was being poked into it ) a really good 12 out of a 1-10 rating. It will get your attention really FAST.
Been one week today and it's a lot better , almost back to normal.
In this time span the wife was to the pain clinic for her back , then later to the Urgent care for a strep infection. I visited the dentist for a crown which is missing a small piece of it. Going to be a good year for the Doctors.
So all I can say is that ....So far 2020 Sucks !!!!