Entry: 10/17/06
Definitely not one of my better days, but not one of my worst days either. Due to the nature of the situation, I took down the times of certain events in my head.
For those who don't wear contact lenses, let me fill you in on some things. When contact lenses start to hurt, you can do one of 3 things:
Nursing - The first thing most people start to do when your contacts start to hurt .You put your hand over your eye, blink a lot, rub your eye, etc. You do whatever it takes to make your contacts feel better without actually taking them out or reapplicating them. Generally utilizes tears to rinse out the eye of contaminants.
Reapplication - This method is basically where you use tension between your eyelid and the contact lenses to life up the contact lenses off the eye(1/4 of a centimeter), but not take them out. By doing this, you can obtain some of the benefits of removal and reapplication without actually taking out the contact
Remove and Reapplication - Physically taking out the contact lenses(Using tool or using eyelid tension method) eye, rinsing it out, and placing it back into the eye. Requires clean water to rinse the contact lenses, but while rinsing the contact lenses isn't necessary, it often produces the best results. Some people resort this method the minute their contacts begin to hurt because this normally produces the best results out of the 3 methods, but is more of a hassle due to the need of clean water and possibly a mirror.
7:03- Got on bus. Contacts started to sting, so I started to nurse it for a while.
7:17- Arrived at school. Continued to nurse my eye, but no avail. Quincy claimed it to be bacterial infection. I considered it a possibility. My nose started to run a lot due to the tears coming from my eye(Side effect of using tears to clean out the eye).
7:18 - 7:46- Attempted to remove my contact lenses to no avail. Left Photo 2 to go to office to call home.
7:48- Called home. Told dad to bring my glasses and my contact tool(cause I couldn't take it out using eyelid tension method).
8:06- Dad arrived. Removed contact lenses and wore glasses back to school.
8:26- Noticed something wrong in AP Bio. My left eye still stung quite harshly and my vision quality was extremely poor. Did some objectives to try to keep my mind off of my eye, but it didn't work. My eye especially hurt when water enters my eye, such as when I yawn.
9:29- After AP Bio, went to Advisory. Freaked Quincy out with my glasses(He said "WOAH!!" like 12 times >_>). My vision quality was extremely blurry. It was like looking through 3 thick slabs of glass. Quincy asked if I saw triplicates, but so far that didn't happen. Decided to head home due to the nature of the situation(Stinging was very constant)
9:35- Got my note signed by Moran and headed toward the office. Schulnuk caught me and saw my note. Got the ok, mainly cause she thought I was extremely sick(I definitely looked it, as Devika and Art pointed out earlier today).
9:42- Vision quality began to rapidly deteriorate. While attempting to look at my Off Grounds slip, I realized my left eye started to see triplicates, like Quincy said, and it was still like looking through thick slabs of glass. Also, left eye was suddenly extremely sensitive to sunlight. Began to stop using my left eye(Concept of "More you use it, the more it gets worse") by shutting it with my left hand. Slept for 5 minutes.
9:52- Dad arrived. No real talk, just described my situation to him. Scheduled appointment with optometrists.
10:07- Arrived home. Dumped all my school stuff and went to my room to sleep. Eye was extremely painful and it began to be difficult to bear.
12:10- Mom woke me up. Ate a slice of bread, then got into the car.
After that point, I stopped keeping track of exact times, so I'll just tell you the rest. I arrived at the optometrist's and my doctor examined my eye. Turns out there were small-medium scratches scattered throughout my eye. There was a ulcer(Missing chunk of my eye)) on the upper portion of my eye which caused the light sensitivity, triplicates, and vision loss. Treated eye with anti-biotics that stung a LOT, and then patched my eye(Yes, that's right, an eye patch). Upon looking in the mirror, my face looked like it was in a car accident O_O, even though the patch was to make sure my eye didn't open for the rest of the day.
Went to the bank after the optometrists's to deposit my paycheck. Found it rather hard to do things with only my right eye...curse taking vision for granted. I scared this one white teenager who was waiting for me to finish using the ATM machine. When I turned around, he saw my face, he said "HOLY SMOKES" out loud, and then put his hands over his mouth when I unintentionally glared at him ^^;;. After the bank, went home to eat lunch, then sleep some more. Woke up at around 4ish.
I realized I didn't read Oedipus Rex yet for Ernst, so I thought "I'll just read it now" when I remembered my little situation....
let me put it this way,reading Oedipus Rex with one eye is NOT fun >_<.
Did my math homework after reading Oedipus Rex. The homework was really easy even though I wasn't in class today ^.^. Then I just relaxed for the rest of the day.