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Last week I had and eye infection, so I make an appointment at the doctors he has look and yes I have an eye infection. He gives me two prescriptions one I take through the day and one at night time. Easy enough, I head off to the chemist fill the scripts and then head home. I read the literature that comes with them and then start the day drops.
Now I am sure that many of you out there know how hard it is to put in eye drops. For some reason we automatically go to protect the eye so our eye closes. Even if we hold open one lid to get the drops in the eye still tries to stay shut. So I sit down put my head back pull my bottom lid down and aim the drop for the corner of my eye, two drops is all I needed. No I miss, try again; nope aim is completely off and ended up having eye drops running down my nose and cheeks but not in the eye. Giving up in frustration I call hubby to help.
Once again we try. This time I hold both my upper and lower lid open or should I say try to force them open. After a couple of goes he finally gets the drops in. One eye, then the other, we managed to get that one done too. The rate we are going I am going to run out of eye drops before the infection is cleared up the way we keep missing.
And then it hits you, you cough and splatter, you start to curse, oh my god what is that taste, then it dawns on you the eye drops are working. Grabbing a bottle of water I go to the bathroom and gurgling my mouth clean, trying to get the taste out of my mouth. Look if we are going to have to stick drops in our eyes could you please make them have a pleasant taste.
So after what seemed like hours the taste goes only for me to do it all over again. I grab the eye drops and read the label once again, making sure it is four times a day. So yes four times I have to flirt with the eye convincing it that it needs the drops, that if the eye would just stays open this would be painless for all. I think I need to have a bid for when I am doing eye drops. The mess I get in. And yes I still didn’t learn the first time the taste doesn’t change.
Then it is night time. It is ointment time. I can do this myself I don’t need help; HA that is what I think. The lighting in our bedroom is poor, and the bathroom light is on the blink and waiting for the electrician to come and replace the light fixture. So I do the ointment in the down stairs bathroom. Okay when I read the instructions earlier I am sure this was not in it. So I get the ointment I put it in the eyes and go to head out the door, but wait I can’t see. The fog has suddenly got so thick that I can not see in front of me. Ohhh wait that isn’t fog it is this damm ointment. I stubble out the bathroom running my hand against the wall to guide me, trip on the bottom step, Ohhh hell I have the steps to navigate. So I stand at the bottom of the step and call out to hubby to wake up and come and help me, as he had gone to bed earlier. I hear a few grumbles and groans and finally he is conscious enough to comprehend what I am say, he grumbles his way down the stairs to help me up them I trip up a few times but pretty much get to the top without breaking my neck I shuffle to the bedroom using the wall to guide me again, stub my toe a couple of times on furniture, and finally get into bed.
Okay no matter how poor the lighting is tomorrow night I am going to do this in the bedroom.
So what did I learn form all this. I can’t medicate myself when it comes to eye drops. And if I have to have ointment at night be sure to read the fine print that says this will cause temporary blindness for 30 mins. It may help. But better still, don’t write it in fine print.
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Posted by KP on 2008-12-12 06:45:22 | Rating: | Views: 42
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