the needle and the damage done

This one is possibly not for the squeamish. I would certainly not want to have seen what I had done. Warning over, here goes. My eyesight yesterday, Friday, seemed far better than it had been for a while, possibly as I'd stopped the Homatopine. I headed to the doc at about 4 and strted by seeing Brock, who gave my eyes a quick test that went well. With the right I could read over half way down the wall chart, albeit with the blindspot obscuring letters to the right hand side in a now-you-see-me-now-you-can't manner. With the left I was right near the bottom of the chart, into the showing off zone. Cool!

Then it was in to see Doctor Cohn whose previous patient, he assured me, was psychic. Er, ok. Drops in and through the microscope he said the back of the eye was still leaking gunk and therefore we should press on with the hydrocortison injection. Asked a few questions and was pleased to hear that swimming and general exercise still ok - wear goggles when swimming, and I could return to diving but, as expected, diving in the near future would be real dumb. Fair enough. He put a couple more drops in my eye. I thought he had missed with the second or third one but he said nope, I just could not feel them as the previous one had been anaesthetic. He also got a tub of gloop that looked a bit like vasoline, scooped sone onto what loked like a pin and smeared it onto my eyeball. Unpleasant, vision now definitely blurred but no pain.

We wandered around to another room where I laid down and had a few injections. First one was aneasthetic and was right in the eye. I could feel a mild pressure and it was gently unpleasant, but no more. And up that close everything is so blurred you can't really see what is happening. There were then another couple of needles and they felt the same. A bit of pressure and maybe a feeloing of fullness in the eye, but no pain. For the record I had my back and chest waxed on Thursday, and on the pain scale that comes one hell of a lot further up. And that was it. M eye was very teary afterwards and I had a bit of peripheal double vision and that was to be expected. We had a bit of a chat about the dark ages (apparently the Germans do not like that phrase as they have loads of history in that period) and diving and other stuff and then I went out to pay.

Sal was waiting for me in the waiting room (where else?) and when she saw me a look came over her face that suggested she was about to throw up. Apparenly my eye did not look quite as good as it felt, or rather still-did-not-feel. I paid and went to the loo, where I looked in a mirror at a watery, swollen, droopy, red eye. I think Sal may have overreated a bit....but it did not look good. We headed home - I wore my sunglasses to protect the public from the site - and I had a bit more double vision and felt not too bad but not quite right. My eye was certainly good enough to watch TV. Just a pity that it was Wimbledon (the movie) because it is really rather shit.

Mini vent...why is it that movies set in London make London look like some stylised version of London? Hardly any people, clean streets, no traffic around Picadilly Circus (they always drive around Eros), three people walking through Green Park and so on. New York, as far as I can tell, looks just like it does on TV. Ditto for Sydney. But London is too often sanitised. Stop it. London is London and it is fucking fantastic at it so show it as it is.

So by the end of the night the aneasthetic was wearing off and my eye kinda itched a bit and my right nostril really ached, like I'd been belted in the face. Did not stop me from sleeping, and now, following mrning the eye is still weepy, but the pupil is not dilated, but O do feel like I've been belted across the right side of my nose with a pan. Very odd.

Wondering whether or not to post the picture of my eye with this...hmmm...maybe not.

In other news, work blah, car registered blah, cricket bleugh and apparently they have located one of the lost midget submarines that attached Sydney Harbour in the war. Looking forward to hearing more about that.