During last block yesterday my left eye got all red, watery, and irrated so I took my contacts out and wore my glasses. The kids have never seen me in them so it caused it quite a stir :)
My eye was fine all evening when I went shopping with a friend, but about 9 pm it started hurting really badly. I couldn't open it without searing pain. I thought maybe it was scratched or some crazy pice of Mumbai polution had gotten in there. I thought if I just went to sleep the dirt would work itself out or the scratch would repair itself if my eye was closed and resting for 7 or so hours.
I woke up around 2:30 to use the bathroom and could not open my eye. It hurt so bad I couldn't open it long enough to see if anything was in there etc. I wasn't in any real danger but I need my eye to do a lot of things this weekend!! There is a hospital about a 5 minute walk from my flat and I figured I'd have a good chance of getting seen this late at night. I put some clothes on and walked down to the hospital with one eye closed. Luckily it is pretty easy to get around that time of night - no people to dodge, no noisy traffic, etc. I got to the hospital and it was silent - not a soul moving. I went to the ER which was empty - NOT a sight you would see in the US!! I told the nurses (or whoever they were) about my eye. They babbled to each other in Hindi and pushed a button to call a doctor. The doctor came and asked me the same questions about my eye. He said " you need to go to blahblahblah - they have an eyespecialist there. We are not an eye specialist hospital" HE WOULDN'T EVEN TOOK AT IT!!! I didn't need a specialist!! He could have looked in there, found dirt and flushed it out. done. Or he could have found a scratch and said "just rest with your eyes closed for the next 24 hours" great. He wouldn't even look at it. I didn't even know what hospital he was talking about. He tried to explain where the hospital was. It was about a 20minute walk at this time of night from where I was. There were no rickshaws available. I thought wondering around somewhere I don't know at 3 am with one eye closed was probably not the best idea.
So I went home and went back to bed and prayed that it would be all better when I woke up. Jesus answers prayers!!! It felt much better a when I woke up.
Let's hope I never really have a medical emergency at my flat. Maybe I'll be bleeding to death and they don't have a bleeding specialist!!! ha!!
My eye is still a irritated, but it isn't searing pain anymore! :) Now I can get some stuff done!
My eye was fine all evening when I went shopping with a friend, but about 9 pm it started hurting really badly. I couldn't open it without searing pain. I thought maybe it was scratched or some crazy pice of Mumbai polution had gotten in there. I thought if I just went to sleep the dirt would work itself out or the scratch would repair itself if my eye was closed and resting for 7 or so hours.
I woke up around 2:30 to use the bathroom and could not open my eye. It hurt so bad I couldn't open it long enough to see if anything was in there etc. I wasn't in any real danger but I need my eye to do a lot of things this weekend!! There is a hospital about a 5 minute walk from my flat and I figured I'd have a good chance of getting seen this late at night. I put some clothes on and walked down to the hospital with one eye closed. Luckily it is pretty easy to get around that time of night - no people to dodge, no noisy traffic, etc. I got to the hospital and it was silent - not a soul moving. I went to the ER which was empty - NOT a sight you would see in the US!! I told the nurses (or whoever they were) about my eye. They babbled to each other in Hindi and pushed a button to call a doctor. The doctor came and asked me the same questions about my eye. He said " you need to go to blahblahblah - they have an eyespecialist there. We are not an eye specialist hospital" HE WOULDN'T EVEN TOOK AT IT!!! I didn't need a specialist!! He could have looked in there, found dirt and flushed it out. done. Or he could have found a scratch and said "just rest with your eyes closed for the next 24 hours" great. He wouldn't even look at it. I didn't even know what hospital he was talking about. He tried to explain where the hospital was. It was about a 20minute walk at this time of night from where I was. There were no rickshaws available. I thought wondering around somewhere I don't know at 3 am with one eye closed was probably not the best idea.
So I went home and went back to bed and prayed that it would be all better when I woke up. Jesus answers prayers!!! It felt much better a when I woke up.
Let's hope I never really have a medical emergency at my flat. Maybe I'll be bleeding to death and they don't have a bleeding specialist!!! ha!!
My eye is still a irritated, but it isn't searing pain anymore! :) Now I can get some stuff done!
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