A Day In The Life

Happy Merry Christmas 2009 - The hospital part 1

'Ouch, just looking at you is making me blink', was my reception from the receptionist at A&E, followed by, 'I'm afraid there is a 3 to 4 hour wait at the moment', thankfully followed by, 'but you look quite bad so I'll see what I can do'.

So straight through to a wee consultation booth from where I can hear the torrent of old folks coming in off the ambulances. They've all slipped on the winter ice trying to get a paper or some milk from the shop and broken bones, as I'm sitting there I can't help thinking to myself I'd swap for a broken arm all day long.

Anyways, after a certain amount of dicking about transfering from one in-house doc to another, having various soothing creams squirted in my eye I get a dollop of yellow dye inserted. As the room turns yellow it feels like I'm wearing shades without the inconvenience of actually wearing shades. The dye is precursor to a 'slit-lamp examination' entailing having blue and bright (and I mean bright as fuck) white light poured into the already sensitive eye.

I was released some 4 hours later. The diagnosis was an ulcer on my cornea, 'painful but you should live, if it gets any worse feel free to come back', again said in such a way that you leave thinking 'I'll not be back'.

posted by mrwhatshisface @ 1:41 pm