So a few days ago I was at work when my eye started hurting. It started irritating me so bad that I asked a co-worker to drive me home that night so that I could take out my contacts. Luck was not on my side that day and I ended up having to work 3 hours later than expected. By the time I got dropped of at home I couldn’t see out of my eye at all because ALL light would make my eye adjust and caused me great pain. My boyfriend and best friend were gracious and help me to bed and cooked me dinner. Saddly after dinner I was left alone. Wide awake with nothing to do. By morning my eye was VERY VERY red so I called into work and went to the DR. He took a metal instrument that looked like a wine bottle opener and put it ON MY EYE!!! *Shudder* Then he informed me that I had an inflamed iris and requested that I still see my eye Dr after 24 hour whether I was doing better or not. He prescribed some steroid drops mixed with an anti-bacterial solution. Let me tell you, my eye felt great! I took them as prescribed at 4 hour intervals. But when I woke up the next morning my eye was a deep red once again. So I scheduled the earliest appointment I could make for 3:30 that afternoon. I rushed from work to my appointment to spend a whole 2 minutes with the eye DR. He looked into my eye and said, well it looks like you had an ulcer in your eye. Which apparently is an abrasion in you eye that gets infected. So the drops the first DR gave me were doing the trick and nothing else needed to be done. So other than a bit of peace of mind I felt the money that I spend on the second appointment was wasted. Today I can now go outside without flinching in pain and I no longer look like a druggy on a binge so I guess all is well.
