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epik_noodles) wrote2010-01-06 08:38 pm
epik_noodles) wrote2010-01-06 08:38 pm
Bad news.
Okay... a little drugged up on dye injections from the hospital, whoa the computer is moving...lol...
I waited for two hours in the waiting room when I got to the hospital. When the nurse called me, she dilated my eyes, ouch, light is so bright.
After my eye torture, one of the eye doctors made me sign a consent form for taking pictures for my eye? The random doctor explained that I would be getting an injection before the pictures and the hospital is not responsible for any complications that may occur blah blah blah. Then the doctor started to list the random side effects of the injection. This was our conversation:
Doctor: do you have any questions?
Me: No, not really.
Doctor: okay, just so you know, the side effects of the injection include dizziness, skin irritation, aching, insomnia, bleeding, irregular heart beats, swelling, itchiness, death, dry eyes, difficulty breathing, vomiting, migraines, tremendous pain in the arm, nausea, yellowing of the skin and temporary skin discoloration. If you agree to the terms and conditions please sign your name next to the "X". *hands me clipboard*
Me:.........wha.... *signs paper*
Doctor: you're all set kid! *quickly walks away with the signed papers*
Me: he did not! just call me kid...
I'm afraid of syringes!!!! They had to hold me down. Recall the dilation process I was talking about earlier, yeah, it makes you super super super sensitive to all kinds of light (artificial and natural light), so you feel like a lightphobic vampire. It was horrible when they were taking pictures! I'm sitting with my head pinned to a microscope that has a powerful lamp (powerful enough to see straight through your eye like glass) pointed directly at my dilated eyes. I was physically forced to have my eyelids held open and on top of that I had to stare directly at the damn light. It was more painful than it sounds. Being dilated and staring at a super bright light without being allowed to blink for 5 minutes, PURE TORTURE! I was taking pictures for an hour in front of that evil bright lamp.
After pictures, I had to go see my doctor, Dr. Mackintosh (I think of apples...for some reason). Even though I'm sitting in his office I still had to wait because he was taking care of 10 patients at the same time. So....2 hours later he shows up and does another microscope examination, ARGH MORE LIGHTS?! I had to sit through another eye singeing examination, I could hardly keep my eyes open from so much light. Doctor then tells me to sit tight while he looks at my photo results and gets a hold of the head doctor.
HERE'S THE BAD NEWS
2 hours later Dr. M comes back with a disappointed look on his face. "Well the good news is that there are no signs of abnormality in the photos, everything looks fine, blood vessels intact, no bleeding or displacements." "However, the bad news is... your eye's shape has changed and is slowly losing it's vision range" "We can't do anything about about it because your eye is damaged beyond repair, we're sorry but there really is nothing we can do, I mean your retena is too severely damaged beyond recognition for us to do anything, again, we're sorry" "Your vision will never be restored, you just have to live with it, we're sorry."
I'm going to be blind.....forever????
I feel a little dizzy/sick from the injection, other than that I'm fine, kinda.
An advantage for my eyes being dilated, I can see so well in the dark, "I see you lurking around, Pikus".
I waited for two hours in the waiting room when I got to the hospital. When the nurse called me, she dilated my eyes, ouch, light is so bright.
After my eye torture, one of the eye doctors made me sign a consent form for taking pictures for my eye? The random doctor explained that I would be getting an injection before the pictures and the hospital is not responsible for any complications that may occur blah blah blah. Then the doctor started to list the random side effects of the injection. This was our conversation:
Doctor: do you have any questions?
Me: No, not really.
Doctor: okay, just so you know, the side effects of the injection include dizziness, skin irritation, aching, insomnia, bleeding, irregular heart beats, swelling, itchiness, death, dry eyes, difficulty breathing, vomiting, migraines, tremendous pain in the arm, nausea, yellowing of the skin and temporary skin discoloration. If you agree to the terms and conditions please sign your name next to the "X". *hands me clipboard*
Me:.........wha.... *signs paper*
Doctor: you're all set kid! *quickly walks away with the signed papers*
Me: he did not! just call me kid...
I'm afraid of syringes!!!! They had to hold me down. Recall the dilation process I was talking about earlier, yeah, it makes you super super super sensitive to all kinds of light (artificial and natural light), so you feel like a lightphobic vampire. It was horrible when they were taking pictures! I'm sitting with my head pinned to a microscope that has a powerful lamp (powerful enough to see straight through your eye like glass) pointed directly at my dilated eyes. I was physically forced to have my eyelids held open and on top of that I had to stare directly at the damn light. It was more painful than it sounds. Being dilated and staring at a super bright light without being allowed to blink for 5 minutes, PURE TORTURE! I was taking pictures for an hour in front of that evil bright lamp.
After pictures, I had to go see my doctor, Dr. Mackintosh (I think of apples...for some reason). Even though I'm sitting in his office I still had to wait because he was taking care of 10 patients at the same time. So....2 hours later he shows up and does another microscope examination, ARGH MORE LIGHTS?! I had to sit through another eye singeing examination, I could hardly keep my eyes open from so much light. Doctor then tells me to sit tight while he looks at my photo results and gets a hold of the head doctor.
HERE'S THE BAD NEWS
2 hours later Dr. M comes back with a disappointed look on his face. "Well the good news is that there are no signs of abnormality in the photos, everything looks fine, blood vessels intact, no bleeding or displacements." "However, the bad news is... your eye's shape has changed and is slowly losing it's vision range" "We can't do anything about about it because your eye is damaged beyond repair, we're sorry but there really is nothing we can do, I mean your retena is too severely damaged beyond recognition for us to do anything, again, we're sorry" "Your vision will never be restored, you just have to live with it, we're sorry."
I'm going to be blind.....forever????
I feel a little dizzy/sick from the injection, other than that I'm fine, kinda.
An advantage for my eyes being dilated, I can see so well in the dark, "I see you lurking around, Pikus".