Eye Opening Experience ~ Day 2

Monday morning was a whirlwind.  My eye was bloodshot and I was in a great amount of pain. 

My eye felt like I had something in it (sand, hair, something!!) as well as I felt like I had something ‘stabbing’ me in my eye. 

My vision was blurry out of my left eye… and I was very sensitive to light. I couldn’t even have my eyes open when the kitchen light was on.  I had to have all the curtains in the house drawn – it was dark!

Vacation Bible School started this week for C.  TheMan and I (really he did it all as I could not see outside – I was blinded by the sun) loaded the kids up in the car.  We dropped C off at VBS and we headed down the hill to town to ‘drop in’ on my old-old eye doctor.  Not the expensive flashy eye doctor I was seeing in town the past year and a half to ‘fix’ my eye issues.

They took one look at my eye (See Picture Below) and took me in.

According to the eye doctor, I have a pre-corneal ulcer in my left eye.  It is a pretty large mass… too big to have grown in the last 24 hours.  Ah, this is what was going on in my eyes for the past year that the other (expensive) doctor didn’t catch!  Had she used a split lamp – this whole ordeal might not have happened!! GROWL!

I have been instructed to NOT wear my contacts until further notice – when I return for my follow-up appointment next Monday.

I am on antibiotic eye drops to take 3x a day for 7 days (or until my follow-up appointment).

I don’t know if it is mental or the numbing eye drops the doctor put in my eye to examine me… but I am already starting to feel better.