My little eye

After getting referred to an ophthalmologist by my optician due to my weeping eye problem, I went to see Dr. Maberley today. Turns out there are two Dr. Maberleys on Willow Street, the other one at 2525 and the other one at 2550 - I went to see the wrong one first. When I came to the second Dr. Maberley's office first thing he asked was "did you come to see me or my son?" so I guess that's what was going on there... I had just been given an appointment to see Dr. Maberley and Alan or David never entered the conversation... and of course I left the exact address on my desk too.

In any case, I managed to be at the right place at the right time in the end. Dr. Alan Maberley is one of those doctors who does a little talking and a lot of poking, and then explains everything to you in the end. He put altogether four different kinds of drops to my eyes, looked in a bit and then asked me to go to the waiting room "to wait until the drops took effect". So I went to the waiting room and sat down for couple of minutes, got bored and took a magazine - only to find out that I couldn't focus on it at all, my vision had totally blurred. After a while one of the nurses came up to me confidently and said "Dr. Maberley asked me to put some drops on you, Lillian", to which I said "Milla?" (the names sound alike when they don't know how to pronounce my name) and the real Lillian got her drops. The nurse laughed and said "Well, I thought your pupils looked a bit dilated".

At the first opportunity I looked in the mirror and this is what I looked like:

So the drops had quite clearly taken effect. Back at Dr. Maberley's office he put something very weird to my eyes - they felt like suction cups - and looked at them a bit more after which he started talking. Looks like I've got a temporary obstruction of the tear drainage duct which basically means the tear duct gets blocked for whatever reason and tears don't have anywhere else to go but out of the eye - hence weeping. Solution is to take antibiotic eye drops four times a day for two weeks, preceded and followed by gentle massaging of the tear duct close to the nose. Sounds terribly inconvenient, but the good news is I should be able to wear my contacts as they are not the cause or an obstruction to the treatment.

Going out was scary. Because my pupils were so dilated the world was incredibly bright, and because of the suction cup treatment my vision was very blurry - so I couldn't keep my eyes open properly and when I did I couldn't see much anyway. For a while world was a terrifying place - I even got into a wrong bus because I couldn't see and just assumed it was the right one. Work was out of the question for the rest of the day - at least inside I could keep my eyes open but I still couldn't focus on the screen.

At home it was time for a nap - now my vision has mostly returned but my eyes still feel tired and uncomfortable.

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