I am fine today.
I went to UH as early as 6:30am this morning for an appointment in the ophthalmology clinic. This appointment is a result of an unsuccessful appointment two days ago due to “flood” in the clinic.
The time of the appointment is 8:30am. I went there so early for two reasons: to avoid traffic jam and to finish the appointment early. I got a very good general queue number – 5. I registered successfully at 7:30am and get another queue number 1003.
The nurse called my name at 8:00am to perform an simple eyes sight test. After that, I waited for my turn to see a doctor which I expected to happen very soon. But when I saw the queue number rolling, I started to doubt my earlier expectation. Many queue numbers that were after me were served :-(
Worrying that I might miss the queue, I checked with the nurse. She told me that the doctor that supposed to see me was not in yet :-(
I waited and waited very patiently and was called to see the doctor 9:40am only. When I sat down in the consultation room, I found out that the doctor was not there. I waited another 15 minutes over there. The nurse who called me in signaled me to remain seated when she saw me moving. She worried I might run out of patient.
Keeping me waiting for a long time did not upset me much, but one thing that upset me very much was that I noticed that there was only one sheet of paper on the table with my sight reading test result written on it.
The clinic supposed to bring in my medical file to let the doctor understand my medical history. Without the medical file, how can a doctor make a good judgment in treating the patient?
“What is your problem?” the doctor asked.
“Extremely dry eyes,” I answered.
“What did you applied?”
“Naturale Tears.”
“No, no, you must be applying something else,” he thought that I was not telling the truth when he saw the white oily precipitation formed around my eyes.
He didn’t understood my situation. I guess he hasn’t met a patient that needs to apply the artificial tears so often as me. When doctor prescripts eye drops to their patients, most of the time the frequency of application is in the order of hours, but in my case it is minutes. When I apply the eye drops, it overflows to the surrounding area and forming chemical precipitation. Since I apply a lot, the precipitation is a lot too.
After a couple of tests, the doctor decided to dilate my eyes. I was asked to wait outside for the eyes to get dilated after applying some form of eye drops.
When the doctor called me again, it was already 11:00am. He performed some more test and then prescribed me two types of medicine; an eye drops called Systane and an ointment called Fucithalmic. He also advised me to stop using Naturale Tears that I had been using for a long time.
The prescription said that I should apply Systane two hourly but I have to apply it in 15 to 30 minutes interval, else I can't see.
The doctor didn't say a word about the condition of my eyes. When I asked, "not bad" is the answer :-)
When I reached home, it was 12:30pm. Due to dilated eyes, I couldn't read. So I was unable to work in the afternoon, and God bless me with a good rest :-)
I have to see the eye specialist again in two weeks time.
See you next post :-)
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