Second Sight: Oh brother

Today was appointment day with my ophthalmologist. He checked my left eye and confirmed what I had thought for the past few days—the redness had diminished somewhat. However, he was puzzled as to why it had not cleared up completely, after all it had been 3 weeks since my surgery. He laid out some possible factors for me:

  • An allergy to one of the meds
  • A blocked blood vessel or two in the white of my eye
  • Environmental factors such as the hazy weather we’ve been having recently

The second one was the most troubling. As a consequence he changed my eye meds again, this time no more steroid stuff. I have to report back to him in a fortnight’s time, and hopefully all the redness will disappear soon. I’m getting sick and frustrated with it!

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Second Sight: And the Adventure Continues

This morning I went to see my ophthalmologist again. I was originally scheduled for an appointment later on Thursday, but at a friend’s insistence (you know who you are, L) I went. So the doc checks my left eye and proclaims that it’s healing well, but he was puzzled by the persistent redness. Upon a more thorough checkup he found that my eyelids were secreting a lot of oils and crud and icky stuff…you could say I have a dirty eye, LOL. So I was ordered to clean my eye more often with sterile cotton balls. Yeah, how exciting, but I have to do it.

He changed and added to some of my meds. I’m now using these eye drops: Ciloxan, TobraDex, and Naphcon A. To me they sound more like biochemical weapons than eye drops, but I’m nuts. Anyways, sticking to doctor’s orders and one final checkup a week from now. If the redness doesn’t clear up, he’s going to inject an antibiotic directly into my eye—ugh, icky poo!

I hope it doesn’t come to that (shudders) so for now I’m keeping a very close watch on my left eye. Stay tuned.

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