Well that's .. interesting.

[spookyevilone]

I called in late to work so I could go to the doctor. I woke up with gooped shut, sore eyes. This is usually a symptom of allergies, for which they give me antihistamine eyedrops. I went to CVS across the road to see if I could get by with over the counter antihistamine drops, and they had a minute clinic, so I went there instead of my normal doctor.

Half an hour later, I had to call in to work and take the day off, because I have bacterial conjunctivitis - pink eye. They tell me it's violently contagious and can permanently damage the eyes of certain adults. Great. I feel like I'm the Typhoid Mary of eyeballs.

I have tobromyacin drops, some sort of jelly eye antibiotic goop, and an oral antibiotic. I've had pneumonia that wasn't treated this aggressively. Apparently the most common bacteria for infection is staph and many strains of it are drug resistant. Wonderful. Guerrilla bacteria.

You know you watched too much ER when: You wouldn't sweat a sucking chest wound, but the thought of going to Urgent Care with goopy eyes leaves you in a cold sweat because you know in that episode, you'd be the one who got some sort of unexpected complication that killed you.

Which, really, is on par for most of my medical maladies. Which is why I'll stay home when I'm having random abdominal pains and fevers but goopy eyes will send me running to urgent care wondering if I have some new breed of Phillipine eye rot. That, and it's my EYES. The most important pieces of gelatinous, membrane covered goop adorning this meatsack I call a body. There isn't all that much that truly scares me, but going blind is right up there on the list of things that do.

I tried to get a picture, but the drops have already constricted the vessels and the flash makes it look like a normal if watery eye. The layer of sandpaper currently covering them does not show up.

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

...wow.

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of horrified. I can't decide whether I got an extremely proactive hcp or whether something as common as bacterial pink eye has gone freaky mutant dangerous, which staph can and does do.

I can't read or watch tv or play on the internet for long without my eyes going ouch so I'm stuck laying here with my overactive imagination coming up with things like necrotizing fasciitis: eyeball edition.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

necrotizing fasciitis: eyeball edition

I'm glad I wasn't eating right then.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

It's probably some form of nanorobotic infection or something. You're being used as a guinea pig!

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

But I'd be OK with that! On the up side, I do not appear to have a mutant variety of drug resistant staph. The drugs appear to be working nicely. Which means this is normal pink eye. Though I find it ironic that the eyedrops and goop hurt far worse than the original affliction.