Well I am finally done with having Dr's poke and shine bright lights in my eye.
Very good news! I do not have glaucoma. Thank You Jesus!
I do have a cataract on my bad eye and I am at high risk to get glaucoma and so now have to go to this specialist every year to have them do all these tests in my eye since with glaucoma you can not tell if you have it unless they run all these special tests. Glaucoma is a disease that kills the nerve that is in the back of your eye, it is a slow moving disease that slowly takes away your vision until you no longer see. But.....if they catch it in its very early stages they can give you medicine to protect that nerve back there and then do surgery.
He told me he doesn't recommend that I get this surgery until I am in my 30's. What they will do is take out the lens in my eye and put an artificial one in. He said then I can have laser surgery done to my other eye once that is taken care of. Not sure why I have to wait till I'm past 30 but oh well, I think I'm too scared to do it now anyways.
There were interns but I only had 1 looking, he and the Dr took turns shining lights in my eye and poking stuff in there.
It was actually quite scary only because they would say.... Ok, we are going to do such and such test. Ummmm ok, and that test is???? They didn't explain what it would entail and they took my glasses so I couldn't see, then they put these eye drops in so I really couldn't see and so I am trying my hardest to see this instrument they are about to use and wondering what in the world its going to do. And I can't see it clearly until its right in front of my eyeball and realize this thing is pointy! And they are about to stick it in my eye, and it has a wire that is connecting it a machine. YIKES!
And they want me to keep my eye open wide and don't blink! Are they nuts??? They finally figured out that my eye has already had one thing poked into it when I was nine and it didn't like that experience and so whenever something gets close to it it just closes automatically, doesn't do what I tell it to. So they realized that if they wanted to poke things into it they would have to hold it open while doing it because that eye has a mind of its own and doesn't stay open when things are moving toward it. Haha
So after them shining the brightest lights they could find into it and poking instruments in for about 2 hours they were finally done.
They had dilated both eyes too, and told me that everything would be blurry and bright until dinner time. I forgot to ask what time dinner was. LOL
At one time I almost wanted to jump up and run screaming from the building. They took me in this room and then left and said the Dr would be back shortly, this is after they have done all kinds of stuff. So I sit in the chair and start looking around and the instruments and machines in there were enough to scare anyone, especially me since I don't like all this stuff going in my eyes. There was this one black instrument that was especially worrisome. Thank goodness they did not touch that one when they came back. I think that would have been when I would have said " please tell me what you are doing before you do it, explain as if I'm 5 and you really don't want to scare me" haha but he didn't touch it so I felt a little safer.
There was a point that I really thought I would die. Die of embarrassment that is. The intern comes in. He is probably about my age. He is sitting directly in front of me, I have my chin in the chin thing while he is shining a light in my eye. When much to my dismay my stomach growls very loudly and very long. It was one of the worst moments of my life but then to make it worse I say " I didn't eat breakfast this morning" and my voice comes out kind of all gravely. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (note: this was an early morning appointment) He kind of laughed.
You know I'm sure Dr's go home and tell their girlfriend or wife, whichever they may have, stories about certain patients that they had that day. I have no doubt that I will be dinner conversation tonight at his table along with probably lunch room conversation. "Yeah, I had this patient today and I am looking in her eye and her stomach starts making loud noises and then she talks in this gravelly voice like she just woke up or something." UGH!!!!!!!! I was very much wishing I had a button to push that would make me disappear!
So that was pretty much it. After that I told Sonia she needed to go eat with me so I could get something good to help me recover. I felt quite traumatized with it all. LOL Not really, I just like to make up excuses of why I ate fattening food and that was the best I could come up with. haha
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