I went to see my ophthalmologist yesterday afternoon (Friday) after either a series or a sequence of events conspired to force my hand. I wasn’t packing Aces, but that much did not matter.
On Sunday night the 4th, the world decided to spin object appeared to move and fly. The nest day, Diane called my ophthalmologist, who sent me to the emergency room. Once there, a young doctor Bouchard determined that I had vertigo and an mid-ear infection, so I was given meclizine and zithromax. After the zithro ran out the next Friday and I was still severally affected, I called my GP on Monday. I got a “sick call” for Tuesday morning, and while Regina saved my sanity when my diaphragm burst eight years ago, she didn’t know what this was. She sent me to my ophthalmologist, who was able to take me on Friday.
I was to be late getting there this afternoon, so Diane called to warm them. “Sorry,” the angry receptionist snorted at my wife, “our office prides itself in taking no patients who arrive more than fifteen minutes after their appointed time. It is really too bad, but he’ll have to reschedule. My wife heard the entire office staff rolling on the floor in the background, but my Dad then arrived to take me over. We arrived almost a half an hour after the time of my appointment, but no one was in the parking lot. I still expected to have to reschedule, but the receptionist had me fill out the usual paperwork, and then a girl came out to call me back. She asked questions which I answered. She had me look at letters with one or the other eye blocked. She dumped some drops into my eye to check it for eye pressure and told me that I was acting “perfectly.”
She the dilated my pupils and took me to a room to await Dr. Sponslor. (I graduated from high school with the man, and his sister was my swallowing (speech) therapist. Lori Manners..) He asked about my double vision, and asked me how I see things now. I answered the my pupils were dilated, and we had a good chuckle.
Tests, lenses, talk of “prisms.” He finally told me that this should go away in a few weeks. He prescribed for an ocular block (plastic eye patch which fits on my glasses).
I have not been able to blog, go grocery shopping, or join in any reindeer games for a while, but we’ll see how this goes now that I know it has been examined.
Thank you for the prayers, and please keep them coming.
I can report that today, my vision has been nominally better.
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