Good news, I went to my last eye appointment on Wednesday. 20-20 vision, all I need to get is drug store glasses for reading.
I made a new appointment to get the cyst removed from my eye lid in two weeks from now. You will later get the story about *things that grow on you when you age* It's just a little heads up for all you young ones and what you have to look forward to as you age, I don't want you to have any surprises like I did. My Mom should be shot for not teaching me these things! To hell with cooking and cleaning, I'd rather know about things that grow on you.
Anyway, back to me getting high as a kite. I never never want that feeling ever again! The day I saw my eye Dr very soon after my left eye began hurting and getting red the pain was like nothing I ever experienced in my life. On a scale of 1-10 I decided to choose 9, only because I suddenly remembered giving birth. Although now as I write, I remember inner ear infections, those are a 10. So I really don't know how to rate my pain, but if I go to the ER then it must be pretty bad.
I knew when I went there that probably the ER Dr. wouldn't know everything he needed to know about eye pain and what's causing it.
It was midnight before I couldn't take it anymore, so reluctantly I called my eye Dr. and he said if I can't take the pain then go to the ER. Good ole' Dad wasn't happy to go after the 12 hour drive from his fishing trip to the UP. But he could see that I was having a problem.
The ER parking lot looks fairly empty. They weren't so busy and took me in right away.
The first thing they wanted was an eye test, I am thinking a high tech look in the eye machine. IT WAS A FRIGGEN EYE CHART! A little blurry but I can still read.
Then numbing eye drops, they felt good but just a very small improvement with the pain.
2 tabs of pain killer called Norco, then later came with 2 tabs of prednisone, that helped a little more but still have kill me like pain. Some blood work, pressure tests, the fancy eye check machine, then wait for results. 40 minutes they said, we waited, I layed down on the skinny cot, Dad found a semi-comphy chair. no-one came around seems like forever, by now I have no idea what time it is but I was freezing, someone forgot to offer a blanket. Dad fell asleep and my Pain killer started to kick in so I took a short walk to the laundry cart and got me & Dad a blanket. The light over my cot was so bright the lights hurt really bad and I couldn't find the switch, so I just pulled the covers over my head and started to doze off.
The Nurse came back with some more drugs, and shot it into the IV that they left in my arm. This time it was Dilaudid (drug heads would love this) Within just a few minutes or sooner I dunno for sure because I had no concept of time or space, I couldn't hold my head up or talk normal, then I started barfing, and barfing. The nurse says it's ok to barf, that's what happens with this drug, but if I want, she will give me a nausea shot to stop it. I don't want to barf, gimme that too please!
Dad said, "man you just ruined your high". I gotta say I am very happy to have done that, although my pain was instantly gone. The nurse thinks they are going to keep me, but she was wrong. The Dr came to talk about his findings.
Vasculitis including Temporal Arteritis
What's that? A swelling of the temporal artery. Aneurysm? Blood clot? No, Just an inflamed artery that runs along the temple. He gives me a print out and says see my eye Dr in the AM. The nurse says hurry home and go to bed. Man, I slept like a log, Next morning, my eye is just a bit red, that's the photo you see here, 100 time better than the night before, and nearly no pain. Bottom line. He was wrong.
DRY EYE! I needed dry eye drops, and I hadda get stoned to find that out.
Just to let you all know, Dry Eye is just as bad as inner ear aches, if gone untreated.
RX use drops 4 times a day and come back in a week. Put off the cyst removal.
So Sorry about the long rant, but I don't know how to shorten this story.
2 comments:
oooh, those pictures are making my eyes water. Sorry you had to go through all that mom, love you!
Yikes, that's no fun.
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