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October 18th, 2017. The eye injury.
8 years ago
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On October 18th, Wednesday, 2017...
I was taking a shower (relax, we're not going there), and some shampoo got in my eye when I was rinsing my hair out. It was bad. Really bad. I tried to rub some of that lather out of my eye...Ohhh, that made it worse. So I tried to rinse it out with warm water....still didn't work.
My eye stung badly, like somebody put one of those eyelash brushes against my eye and kept it there.
But after a while there was just this really dry feeling, like it was uncomfortable, but maybe it would go away on it's own. My brother and I went to see a movie that day, Blade Runner 2049, and I didn't think very much of it.
Until the next day...My eye looked REAL bad. Red...red...RED was how it looked. And puffy, and gunked up. Ew....just fuggin' ew.
And I tried rinsing it out with water again because we didn't have any non out of date eye drops or eye wash in the house.
On the third day my eye was like this, I asked somebody to get me some fresh eye wash. Everybody in my family ducks me for a week after that. I wasn't too happy about that, and my eye was not getting better any faster. It hurt, it was red, it felt dry as hell and it got gunked up...every - Goddamn - morning.
On the fourth day, I was rinsing out my messed-up eye, and a bundle, you heard me, a bundle of eyelashes falls out of my eye from under an eyelid granting me a sudden burst of relief. Hallelujah, right?...
But something--was amiss.
My vision in the affected eye, the right eye, was...affected. Everything was blurry, blurrier than usual, actually.
You see, I already wear glasses, and out of all of the family members I live with I am the one with the worst vision.
Even my near-seventy year old father doesn't have a prescription as strong as mine is.
Yeah, that's how kind-a fucked my vision is. And that is WITHOUT this eye problem.
Anyway, on that fourth day, I suggested that perhaps I should see a doctor. My parents both belittled the problem, said that it was probably an abrased cornea, and that it would go away in two weeks.
A couple of days later, after the required amount of nagging them and my brother, they get me some eyewash...For a few days I use it...it stings to use it...but I assume it must be doing some good...
Perhaps I was wrong.
By the second week after my eye had been injured, near the beginning of the week, I asked them for regular eye-drops just to keep my eye lubricated. Again, I suggested that I go see a doctor. Again, my parents and brother avoid taking me to anybody to have this eye problem looked at.
Again my parents told me that it would heal itself. But I told them how long it was taking. They would not talk about it.
They were avoiding the problem completely now.
Finally, on a Sunday noon, November the 5th...NOVEMBER...the FUCKING...FIFTH...I HAD FINALLY CONVINCED...MY YOUNGER BROTHER...who was TRYING TO SIDE WITH MY PARENTS...SIMPLY BECAUSE NOBODY WANTED TO SPEND THE MONEY, THE CONDITION OF MY EYE BE GOD-DAMNED...
FINALLY....I had been taken to a clinic....Not to a hospital, because, still, cheap-ass, fair-weather-compassioned family.
ANY-WAY!!
So we get to a Centra-Care facility....and I can see WHY my family was a bunch of cheap-asses....Because I don't have insurance -
(because I cannot get a job, or establish a line of credit due to horribly misplaced prejudicial reasons. Baby-boomers, early Gen X'ers and the moderately wealthy, am I right, folks? One corrupted market bubble bursting and they turn retarded and chicken-shit),
Centra Care...JUST to admit you in before a doctor will even look at you, if you have no insurance...will charge you $400.00 American.
.....Four-hundred-dollars...just to be admitted...into a clinic...for a small eye inspection.
.....What. The. Fuck?...
The receptionist was helpful though. He told us there was a cheaper place up the road... Just to get set up there was like...$120.00. Nothing to sneeze at, I'm sure, but even my brother thought that was MILES better than $400.00 at the more well-known clinic place.
SO I finally get my eye examined...
The doctor says she can't see much wrong with it, since by now my eye is only slightly uncomfortable, the most dryness I feel is in the morning when I wake up, and all that really bothers me is the vision problem.
She suggests she could use a dye to see if my cornea is scratched...but just to use that dye would cost...
Three-hundred dollars($300.00)...
Uhhhh...what?
SO!....
I tell the doctor, "Can you, er, suggest an alternative? You know, something that might still help, but not cost as much? Say if we treat this as a better case scenario?"
So then she prescribes me these special medical eye drops that I would have to take every six hours in order to see if that would help.
This whole clinic trip cost my brother $130.00. ...So he was happy.
I wasn't because for me this was an experiment based SOLEly on hope.
For the prescribed week I took the eye drops, every six hours.
Four days later...seemed to have some improvement...but really not much.
After the week was up, I checked to see if my vision had gotten better and if my eye didn't feel any better.
My eye is not much better off now than before the drops.
I tried to call the clinic after the week was up, but they have not called me back yet. That was this current Sunday(or, the day after last Saturday).
I have gone back to using the Clear-Eyes brand drops and wearing an eye patch that is uncomfortable as fuck in the meantime, because I heard that not using the affected eye might make it heal faster.
I cannot read, watch TV or movies, I can't even see what time it is without my vision having this weird ghost image of the text I'm reading hovering around it.
If you will excuse me, my eye is drying out again...
I was taking a shower (relax, we're not going there), and some shampoo got in my eye when I was rinsing my hair out. It was bad. Really bad. I tried to rub some of that lather out of my eye...Ohhh, that made it worse. So I tried to rinse it out with warm water....still didn't work.
My eye stung badly, like somebody put one of those eyelash brushes against my eye and kept it there.
But after a while there was just this really dry feeling, like it was uncomfortable, but maybe it would go away on it's own. My brother and I went to see a movie that day, Blade Runner 2049, and I didn't think very much of it.
Until the next day...My eye looked REAL bad. Red...red...RED was how it looked. And puffy, and gunked up. Ew....just fuggin' ew.
And I tried rinsing it out with water again because we didn't have any non out of date eye drops or eye wash in the house.
On the third day my eye was like this, I asked somebody to get me some fresh eye wash. Everybody in my family ducks me for a week after that. I wasn't too happy about that, and my eye was not getting better any faster. It hurt, it was red, it felt dry as hell and it got gunked up...every - Goddamn - morning.
On the fourth day, I was rinsing out my messed-up eye, and a bundle, you heard me, a bundle of eyelashes falls out of my eye from under an eyelid granting me a sudden burst of relief. Hallelujah, right?...
But something--was amiss.
My vision in the affected eye, the right eye, was...affected. Everything was blurry, blurrier than usual, actually.
You see, I already wear glasses, and out of all of the family members I live with I am the one with the worst vision.
Even my near-seventy year old father doesn't have a prescription as strong as mine is.
Yeah, that's how kind-a fucked my vision is. And that is WITHOUT this eye problem.
Anyway, on that fourth day, I suggested that perhaps I should see a doctor. My parents both belittled the problem, said that it was probably an abrased cornea, and that it would go away in two weeks.
A couple of days later, after the required amount of nagging them and my brother, they get me some eyewash...For a few days I use it...it stings to use it...but I assume it must be doing some good...
Perhaps I was wrong.
By the second week after my eye had been injured, near the beginning of the week, I asked them for regular eye-drops just to keep my eye lubricated. Again, I suggested that I go see a doctor. Again, my parents and brother avoid taking me to anybody to have this eye problem looked at.
Again my parents told me that it would heal itself. But I told them how long it was taking. They would not talk about it.
They were avoiding the problem completely now.
Finally, on a Sunday noon, November the 5th...NOVEMBER...the FUCKING...FIFTH...I HAD FINALLY CONVINCED...MY YOUNGER BROTHER...who was TRYING TO SIDE WITH MY PARENTS...SIMPLY BECAUSE NOBODY WANTED TO SPEND THE MONEY, THE CONDITION OF MY EYE BE GOD-DAMNED...
FINALLY....I had been taken to a clinic....Not to a hospital, because, still, cheap-ass, fair-weather-compassioned family.
ANY-WAY!!
So we get to a Centra-Care facility....and I can see WHY my family was a bunch of cheap-asses....Because I don't have insurance -
(because I cannot get a job, or establish a line of credit due to horribly misplaced prejudicial reasons. Baby-boomers, early Gen X'ers and the moderately wealthy, am I right, folks? One corrupted market bubble bursting and they turn retarded and chicken-shit),
Centra Care...JUST to admit you in before a doctor will even look at you, if you have no insurance...will charge you $400.00 American.
.....Four-hundred-dollars...just to be admitted...into a clinic...for a small eye inspection.
.....What. The. Fuck?...
The receptionist was helpful though. He told us there was a cheaper place up the road... Just to get set up there was like...$120.00. Nothing to sneeze at, I'm sure, but even my brother thought that was MILES better than $400.00 at the more well-known clinic place.
SO I finally get my eye examined...
The doctor says she can't see much wrong with it, since by now my eye is only slightly uncomfortable, the most dryness I feel is in the morning when I wake up, and all that really bothers me is the vision problem.
She suggests she could use a dye to see if my cornea is scratched...but just to use that dye would cost...
Three-hundred dollars($300.00)...
Uhhhh...what?
SO!....
I tell the doctor, "Can you, er, suggest an alternative? You know, something that might still help, but not cost as much? Say if we treat this as a better case scenario?"
So then she prescribes me these special medical eye drops that I would have to take every six hours in order to see if that would help.
This whole clinic trip cost my brother $130.00. ...So he was happy.
I wasn't because for me this was an experiment based SOLEly on hope.
For the prescribed week I took the eye drops, every six hours.
Four days later...seemed to have some improvement...but really not much.
After the week was up, I checked to see if my vision had gotten better and if my eye didn't feel any better.
My eye is not much better off now than before the drops.
I tried to call the clinic after the week was up, but they have not called me back yet. That was this current Sunday(or, the day after last Saturday).
I have gone back to using the Clear-Eyes brand drops and wearing an eye patch that is uncomfortable as fuck in the meantime, because I heard that not using the affected eye might make it heal faster.
I cannot read, watch TV or movies, I can't even see what time it is without my vision having this weird ghost image of the text I'm reading hovering around it.
If you will excuse me, my eye is drying out again...
