Eye Terrorist
So I just had my eye doctor ask me, ‘Do you want me to call EMS?’ The worst part was that she was entirely serious. I don’t have a good track record with anything near my eyes. I did get through the lens selection and the looking into my eyeball part fairly well. I was a bit nervous because I knew what was going to be happening next. The eye drops did come next. I don’t do well with clear eye drops so putting yellow liquid into my eyes is just not a good idea. After fighting with the doctor to get them in, we took a bit of a break while the dye took effect. During this break, she started telling me about how she was seeing some yellow spots in the back of my eyeball and she wanted me to see a specialist to see if there was any macular etiology happening. Basically between the eyedrops, discussion of my eyeballs, and the anticipation of pressure testing of my eyes, I turned completely pale, got cold and clammy and woozy. This was about when the doctor asked me if I wanted her to call EMS. I said no but needed to get out of the throne of eye weapons so we stopped the remainder of the exam. I then moved out to the waiting room where they made me raise my feet and gave me water while I tried to return to normal. It didn’t help much that they were trying to set up an appointment with a specialist while I was recovering. So now I am off to see the specialist on Monday with the warning that it would be worse than the normal exam. I don’t even know what that means.
Some notable eye experiences in my past:
- I have never been able to open my eyes underwater.
- I am infamous for blinking in photos
- I don’t even like wearing glasses or sunglasses because those lenses are too close to my eyes.
- One time when I was about 16 I had my eyes burnt by the sun (see the third bullet) and I had to have two people hold me down and one to put the eye drops in my eyes.
- At about age 19, I had a scratch or something in my eye and I went to the doctor to check it out. He put the infamous dye in my eye and then I went to the bathroom to throw up before he continued the exam.
posted by apete @ 11:45 PM
10 Comments:
Once a nurse wanted to see if I had a scratch on my eye from a piece of contact lens that I'd lost in there. So he put this dye in and then looked at it under a blacklight. I thought it was so cool that I had this special blacklight dye in my eye and didn't want it to wear off!
You were just happy that you were glowing in the dark.
That was a golden opportunity for you Andy...you could have told Srah she glows all the time. What were you thinking!?!
Yeah, but if it were just her eyeballs she would have looked like a freak a lot of the time.
You mean she doesn't look like a freak as is?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Sorry about the doctor stress. Let me know if I can help.
I love that you have multiple "notable eye stories". I don't have anything as cool as that!
Wow, and I thought I was bad at the dentist! My last appointment in the handy dental mobile right here at work, the dentist told me she wouldn't normally give someone novicane for the two tiny fillings she was going to fill. But after watching me squirm and grimace she shot me up a mouthful (like a huge bug bite! ) and then disappeared for 15 minutes to let me get numb! And it still was horrible--and I still grimaced and squirmed.
I really could have used some of that laughing gas!
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