Can you believe it?!? Pink Eye!
Pink eye diagnosis confirmed, the day before eye mapping for my Lasik surgery!!!
I'll pause here so you all can have adequate time to weigh the enormity of this injustice.
I'm not a doctor and I don't even play one on TV, but I guess "pink eye" is a very generic term and there are lots of different kinds and seriousness levels, and I don't have a kind that requires antibiotics or anything. Instead I just have the kind that causes ew-gross oozing and surgery delay. The worst kind, in my opinion.
And to add insult to injury, the rest of this head congestion and sore throatiness is merely a cold, whose remedy is... wait for it... Neti Pot.
Come on! I've got to Neti Pot on top of being upset about the surgery delay?!?
You aren't familiar with this humiliation called Neti Pot? Here, allow a demonstration:
Like, ew, right?
(And sorry to my pregnant friends or sisters in law who must use Neti Pot on a regular basis because you can't take real medicine because of the bambino. Ya'll will have many more ew-gross moments in the next nine months that the Neti Pot doesn't even rank for you. For me? It ranks.)
So I did it when I got home from the doctors. Even Goldie looked at me like, "that's not natural."
I'm awaiting the call back from the Lasik center. The good news is that the pink eye started Saturday and is much improved since then, so I'm hoping for a full and speedy recovery. I promise to wash my eyes with warm soapy water several times daily and Neti Pot twice daily. Just, please, please, let me have this surgery soon!
4 comments:
Oh no! I can't believe the irony of getting pink eye right before your eye surgery.
So, the Neti pot. Yeah, I bought one back in, like, January, when I was stuffed up like mad and couldn't take anything for it. Here's the thing: I was so stuffed up that the water wouldn't run through my sinuses like it was supposed to! It would just start to run into the top nostril and . . . stop. Ew.
So then I had to buy something even worse: a bottle that actually shoots the water up your nose, rather than relying solely on gravity. It does work better for major stuffiness, and for that I was grateful.
Not fun, certainly, but there are lots of people who swear by them! And it's all-natural and whatnot, so that's good, right?
Truth be told, that's the one I have, too. But Neti Pot is more known, and has that disgusting video to boot! The doc gave this one to me -- it's NeilMed, which is the squirter one.
Gotta admit, it kinda worked.
I don't really have words for the Neti Pot. It just makes me thankful that I'm not forced to buy one, and that I can rely on my sleep-inducing drugs instead.
Gross gross gross! This and the Pediegg (made for hobbit feet) are two things I've thankfully avoided while i've been overseas!
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