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Eye Saga, Act I
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If the eyes are windows to the soul than my soul is currently closed for renovations.
Repairs, in the form of anti-bacterial eye drops, saline drops, tea bags compresses, aloe vera eye patches and a lot of wet tissue eye wiping, have been made in the past nine days. While progress is visible (pun intended) date of completion is still unclear.
Here is a quick recap: The whole thing started in Bangkok, when my left eyelid dropped halfway a day before Sean left back to the USA. The following morning I woke up with a red and swollen left eye. The local pharmacist gave me eye drops and promised this will clear very quickly. Instead, the condition only worsened; my eye got redder, more swollen, and started leaking gooey stuff.
A couple of days later an eye doctor in Sukhothai diagnosed it as a serious case of Bacterial Conjunctivitis. She ordered me to stop taking the Bangkok eye drops, as they worsened my condition, and gave me antibiotic eye drops and anti-itching pills instead.
The next few days my eye sight got very blurry and I had several bouts of painful itching in the eye. The swelling of the eyelid was slightly reduced but the collapsed eyelid remained as is.
At my second visit to the doctor she told me that infection was reduced by 20% and that my eyesight will return when the bacteria is completely gone. So these days the vision from my left eye is like the one you get when swimming with open eyes. You can see objects, but cannot distinguish the details. To make this even more interesting, my left eye is (was) my good eye. For as long as I remember my right eye had cloudy vision while my left eye functioned as a "super eye", seeing for both eyes simultaneously. (An eye doctor in Israel diagnosed it as an "inner cross eye" that does not need to be corrected.
So now I have to rely on my right eye for vision. Surprisingly, as the left eye is on hiatus, the right eye has been steadily improving, providing me with clear enough vision to see the lines on the paper to write this blog.
As of last night the itching and burning sensations in my left eye are mostly gone. The eyelid is still collapsed and the eye still red. I seem to shut my left eye often for rest. Vision wise it's like seeing through a lightly rippled glass. I can make out shapes, but everything is very blurry.
Today I'm taking the bus to Myanmar for a "visa run" (you get your passport stamped by Thai officials, cross the bridge to Burma by foot, pay 500 baht for Myanmar visa, walk a little around the poor Burmese town, and cross back the bridge to Thailand, where you get another 30-day visa). Tomorrow I have another doctor appointment before heading southeast to a couple of Thai islands near the Cambodian border.
Let's see what happens next.
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